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23 May 2012 09:29

Dáil

10.30am

Leaders Questions

10.51am

Order of Business

Motion re Smithwick Tribunal (Amendment to terms of reference) (to conclude within 25 minutes) (Department of Justice and Equality)

Road Safety Authority (Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness) Bill 2012 [Seanad] - Order for Report Stage
(Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport)

Qualification and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 (Seanad)  - Second Stage (Resumed to adjourn at 6.30pm if not previously concluded)
(Department of Education and Skills)

Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2012-  Order for Second Stage and Second Stage (to conclude at 10pm if not previously concluded)
(Department of Environment, Community and Local Government)

1.30pm

SOS

2.30pm

Questions (Minister for Finance)

3.45pm

Topical Issues

4.33pm

Morning Business Continued

7.30pm

Private Members Business: National Monument at Nos. 14-17 Moore Street (Sinn Féin)

Afternoon Business Continued

10pm

Dáil Adjourns

 

Seanad

10.30am

Order of Business

11.45am

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad] – Committee and Remaining Stages
[Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation]

12.30pm

Motion regarding the agreement between the EU and the USA on the use and transfer of Passenger Name Records to the United States Department of Homeland Security – back from
Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality (to conclude within 20 minutes)
[Minister for Justice and Equality]

Motion regarding the Smithwick Tribunal (Amendment to terms of reference) (to conclude within 25 minutes)
[Minister for Justice and Equality]

2.30pm

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 – Committee Stage (Resumed)
[Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine]

3.45pm

Statute Law Revision Bill 2012 [Seanad] – Committee and Remaining Stages
[Minister of State for Public Service Reform and the OPW]

4.45pm

Private Members Business [Independent Senators – Taoiseach’s Nominees]

6.45pm

Matters on the Adjournment

Committee Meetings 

9.30am

Jobs, Social Protection and Education

Committee Room 3, Leinster House

AGENDA: Educational disadvantage [ Young Ballymun; and the Early Learning Initiative at the National College of Ireland]

 

10am

Members' Interests (Seanad Éireann)

Committee Room 1, Leinster House  

AGENDA: Private Meeting

 

1.45pm 

Justice, Defence and Equality

1.Committee Room 2, Leinster House

AGENDA: Hearings on submissions received in relation to the Mediation Bill [Ms Karen Erwin, President from The Mediators’ Institute of Ireland and representatives]

 

3pm

Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Committee Room 4, Leinster House

AGENDA: Draft Heads of the General Scheme of Protected Disclosures in the Public Interest Bill 2012 – Exchange of views with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
[Representatives from ICTU and NUJ]

 

3pm

Justice, Defence and Equality

2.Committee Room 2, Leinster House

 (T)(S) AGENDA: 2012 Revised Estimates for Public Services -
(i) Vote 35 (Army Pensions); and
Vote 36 (Defence) [Minister for Defence]; and

(ii) Vote 20 (Garda Síochána);
Vote 21 (Prisons);
Vote 22 (Courts Service);
Vote 23 (Property Registration Authority); and
Vote 24 (Justice and Equality).
[Minister for Justice and Equality]

 

5pm

Environment, Transport, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Committee Room 1, Leinster House

AGENDA: Private Meeting