Is Senator Warfield pressing amendment No. 208?

No, it has already been discussed. Those are the rules.

When is it proposed to take Report Stage?

Is that agreed? Agreed.

That concludes our quite lengthy deliberations. When is it proposed to sit again?

I pay tribute to all sixth year and leaving certificate students and wish them well. I believe that the Leader may have a child doing the leaving certificate examination this year. These students have had a difficult couple of years with Covid in terms of their learning environment. This week there have been a lot of graduation ceremonies, masses and various other events and the examinations will start in a couple of weeks but I do not wish to panic anybody. Most sixth years are finishing this week and, therefore, …

I welcome the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, back to the House once more. The amendments tabled for section 11 have been disposed of. Senator Alice-Mary Higgins was speaking to the section yesterday when we reported progress. Does anybody wish to speak to the section before I put the question? No.

Amendment No. 144 has been ruled out of order, as it incurs a potential charge on the Revenue.

Amendments Nos. 145 and 146 are related. Amendment No. 146 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 145 and they may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Amendments Nos. 173 to 177, inclusive, and amendment No. 183 are related. Amendment No. 174 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 173. Amendments Nos. 173 to 177, inclusive, and amendment No. 183 may be discussed together.

Amendments Nos. 179 and 180 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Amendments Nos. 181 and 182 are out of order as they would impose a potential charge on Revenue.

Amendments Nos. 129, 130 and 132 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Amendments Nos. 133 to 138, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Amendments Nos. 26 to 28, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Amendments Nos. 31 to 46, inclusive, 49 to 53, inclusive, and 71 are related. Amendment No. 32 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 31. Amendments Nos. 42 to 46, inclusive, are physical alternatives to amendment No. 41. Amendments Nos. 31 to 46, inclusive, 49 to 53, inclusive, and 71 may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed?

I am working from the information that I get from the Bills Office.

That is not the opinion of the Bills Office clearly because it would not suggest that grouping otherwise. Everyone else is in agreement with the groupings. We can revisit amendment No. 69 later but are we happy to take the grouping as it is for now?

Okay. I thank the Senator. We move to amendment No. 31 in Senator Warfield's name. He is in a position to discuss his own amendment and also the others in the group.

I acknowledge that it is quite a big group.