Thank you very much, Deputy. Your time is up.

Deputy, please. The time is up.

I thank the Deputy for that. I call Deputy O'Reilly. All that talk of pints is making me thirsty.

We move to the Independent Group where Deputy Pringle is leading off and sharing with his colleagues.

Let us not have an argument please, Deputy.

Is there agreement on the question that the Bill has now been read a Second Time?

A vote has been demanded. That vote is deferred until immediately prior to the taking of Committee Stage later this evening.

We have only 45 minutes for this business, so I hope that we can deal with as many amendments as possible as expeditiously as possible. Amendment No. 1 is in the name of the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and arises out of proceedings on Committee Stage. Amendments Nos. 1 to 9, inclusive, 11 to 18, inclusive, 24 to 31, inclusive, and 37 are related. Amendment No. 3 is consequential on amendment No. 2, amendments Nos. 5 to 7, inclusive, are consequential on amendment No. 4 and amendments Nos. 16, 18, 24 to 31, in…

I will have to stop the Minister of State there because the seven minutes are up. I call Deputy Tóibín.

This is Report Stage, where there is a requirement to focus on the amendment or group of amendments being discussed. How, pray tell, is the matter the Deputy is raising in any way relevant to the amendments with which we are dealing, which are about the appointment of successors?

I am sure it is but it is in any way relevant?

It may be relevant to Report Stage but it is not relevant, in my opinion, to the group of amendments we are currently looking at.

All right.

I am sorry Deputy but that is not relevant. It is a most important matter-----

It is terribly important but I am afraid this is an important piece-----

This is important legislation and we are under extreme time pressure to deal with it. Those questions are not relevant to the amendments before us.

It is and I am very sorry but you cannot raise it through these amendments. You have said as much as you are going to be able to say. I call Deputy Cullinane.

There is no point in Deputy Cullinane going down that road either.

Will you deal with the amendments, please?

I put it to Members that the guillotine motion is to be taken at 7.19 p.m. I say this in the context of giving the Minister of State time to respond. Deputies Canney, Michael Collins and Ó Murchú still have to speak.