I move:
That the following be adopted as a Standing Order in substitution for Standing Order 89 of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business:
89. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), for the purpose of this Standing Order a group shall mean—
(a) any Party which had not less than seven members elected to the Dáil at the previous General Election or which, if it had less than seven, attained the number of seven members as a result of a subsequent bye-election, or
(b) all members of the Dáil being not less than seven in number who are not members of any such Party.
(2) A group shall cease to be a group within the meaning of paragraph (1) for any period in which its membership falls below seven members, save where such membership falls by reason of a vacancy in the membership of the Dáil, the provisions of this paragraph shall not take effect until such time as the said vacancy has been filled.
(3) Each group shall have the right to nominate a private member of the group to present a Bill provided that there is not before the Dáil another Bill presented by a member nominated by the group.
(4) Each group shall have the right in rotation to nominate a private member of the group either to move a motion standing in his name or to proceed with a Stage of a Bill in the Dáil. The order in which the right may be exercised by the various groups shall be determined on the basis of the numbers of members in the groups, a larger group having precedence over a smaller one. In the case of an equality of numbers precedence shall be determined by lot.
(5) At least ten days prior to the date on which the motion or a Stage of a Bill is taken in the Dáil the member nominated shall indicate to the Ceann Comhairle the motion which he proposes to move or the Stage of the Bill to be taken and the Ceann Comhairle will give the motion or the Bill appropriate precedence in the Private Members' Business on the Order Paper.