I move:
That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, with effect from the 21st June, 2011 and until further notice in the 24th Seanad, Standing Order 45 of the Standing Orders of Seanad Éireann relative to Public Business is hereby amended by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b):
‘(b) the speech of a Senator proposing a motion shall not exceed ten minutes; the speech of the Minister or Minister of State concerned shall not exceed fifteen minutes and the Senator proposing, or such other Senator who has not already spoken as he may authorise in that behalf, shall be entitled to four minutes for a speech in reply; the speech of any other Senator in the course of the debate shall not exceed six minutes.’