The Senate received notice of a decision taken at the House Sitting on Friday April 1st 2016 to appoint Hon. Esmond Forde, MP to the Joint Select Committee on Social Services and Public Administration in lieu of Hon. Terrence Deyalsingh, MP.

One bill, the Finance (Variation of Appropriation) (Financial Year 2016) Bill, 2016 was brought from the House of Representatives in the name of the Minister of Finance. The Minister of Finance moved that the next stage of the Bill be taken later in the proceedings. See Supplemental Order Paper for details.

Twelve Papers were laid in the names of the Minister of Finance, Minister of Rural Development and Local Government, Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts, Minister of Housing and Urban Development and the Prime Minister. See Order Paper and Supplemental Order Paper for details.

Six questions qualified for oral answer. See Order Paper for details.

The Minister of Finance moved the second reading of the Finance (Variation of Appropriation) (Financial Year 2016) Bill, 2016. The Bill was read a third time and passed.

The Sitting concluded at 12:15 a.m. on Wednesday April 13, 2016. The Senate adjourned to a date to be fixed.