The Order of Business today shall be as follows: No. 20, motion re Leave to Introduce Supplementary Estimates [Votes 2, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 41 and 42]; No. 21, motion re Referral of Supplementary Estimates [Votes 2, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 41 and 42] to select committee; No. 42, ICC Bank Bill, 2000 – Order for Report and Report and Final Stages; and No. 43, Nitrigin Éireann Teoranta Bill, 2000 – Second Stage (resumed).
It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 20, shall be decided without debate and, subject to the agreement of No. 20, a general debate not exceeding one hour may arise on No. 21 in respect of the Supplementary Estimates [Votes 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 only] and the following arrangements shall apply: (1) the debate in respect of Vote 25 (Environment and Local Government) shall be brought to a conclusion within 30 minutes and the debate in respect of the Education Group of Votes (Votes 26, 27, 28 and 29) shall be brought to a conclusion within a further 30 minutes; (2) in the case of each such debate, the speech of a Minister and of the main spokespersons for the Fine Gael Party and the Labour Party and of each other Member called upon shall not exceed five minutes in each case; and (3) Members may share time. Any divisions demanded on Nos. 20 and 21 shall be taken forthwith. Private Members' Business shall be No. 103 – motion re BSE.