It is proposed to take the report of the Select Committee on Finance and General Affairs on the Dublin Docklands Development Authority Bill, 1996; No. 17, the Decommissioning Bill, 1996 — Order for Report and Report and Final Stages; No. 18, the Children Bill, 1996 — Second Stage (Resumed); No. 3, the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, 1996 — Order for Second Stage and Second Stage; and No. 4, the Merchant Shipping (Commissioners of Irish Lights) Bill, 1997 — Order for Second Stage and Second and Remaining Stages, if not reached earlier, shall be taken at 8.30 p.m. and the Order shall not resume thereafter.
It is also proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that (1) the Dáil shall sit later than 8.30 p.m. and business shall be interrupted not later than 10.30 p.m.; and (2) the Second and Remaining Stages of No. 4 shall be taken today and the proceedings thereon, if not previously concluded, shall be brought to a conclusion at 10.30 p.m. by one question which shall be put from the Chair and which shall, in relation to amendments, include only those set down or accepted by the Minister for the Marine. Private Members' Business shall be No. 33, the Prisons Bill, 1997 — Second Stage (Resumed).