Date when Closure Moved and by whom.

RETURN respecting Application of Standing Order No. 26 (Closure of Debate) during Session 1907-continued.

Question before House or Committee when Moved.

Whether in House or Committee.

Whether Assent given to Motion or withheld by Speaker of Chairman.

Assent withheld because, in the opinion of the Chair, a decision would shortly be arrived at without that Motion.

Result of Motion, and, if a Division,

Numbers For and Against.

"(1) When a Bill has been read a second time it shall stand committed to one of the Standing Committees, unless the House, on Motion to be decided without amendment or debate, otherwise order, and such a Motion shall not require notice, must be made immediately after the Bill is read a second time, may be made by any Member, and may, though opposed, be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. But this Order shall not apply to

(a) Bills for imposing taxes, or Consolidated Fund or Appropriation Bills; or

(b) Bills for confirming Provisional Orders.

1. At 10 p.m. on that day, Mr. Speaker shall put forthwith the
Question on any Amendment or other Motion already proposed
from the Chair, and shall next proceed successively to put forth-
with the Question on any Amendments or other Motions moved
by the Government of which notice has been given (but on no
other Amendment or Motion), and on any other Question
necessary to dispose of the proceedings to be concluded;

2. On that day the proceedings to which this Order relates shall not be interrupted under the provisions of any Standing Order relating to the Sittings of the House ;

"That the position of Vice-President of the Board of Agriculture in
Ireland was intended by Parliament to be and in fact is a Ministerial
and Parliamentary office, properly vacated upon a change of Government,
and that the retention of that office by a political opponent of the
Government of the day is undesirable as a permanent arrangement.'

Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word "That," to the end
of the Question, and add the words "in view of the continued confidence
expressed in the policy of Sir Horace Plunkett by the Council of Agri-
culture, two-thirds of whose Members are directly appointed by the
county councils of Ireland, it is inadvisable, before the House has had
an opportunity of considering carefully the Report of the Committee of
Inquiry into the organisation and working of the Department of Agri-
culture and Technical Instruction, to make any change in Sir Horace
Plunkett's tenure of the Vice-Presidency.'

In House