Final Tynwald sitting before 2016 election

Island politicians set for marathon session

Three days, three nights and possibly longer awaits the Island’s politicians from today (Tuesday) at the final parliamentary sitting before September’s General Election.

A bumper Tynwald is scheduled with no fewer than 49 items on the order paper, preceded by question time in which 72 questions have been tabled.

The future of the Manx state pension, sea services, the Lord Lisvane inquiry, flooding defences and the Chief Constable’s annual report are just a few of the items up for debate with full coverage on Manx Radio.

One of the longest question papers ever waits to greet Tynwald members this morning.

The flag goes down after the election of the new President with the first of the seventy two questions for oral answer which will be asked by the man who will be, if he gets the chance, be asking over forty of them, Peter Karran.

As he is not standing in September this will be the last chance he gets to asks  the Ministers  for Infrastucture, for Education, for Environment, for Home Affairs and the Treasury and Economic Delevelopment the same question: what the biggest waste of tax payers money in the past five years?

He then asks those ministers about how they plan to spend taxpayers money while the Keys is dissolved - and whether Tynwald has approved that spending.

While  they cogitate their replies, Mrs Beecroft will ask whether the Dependibility Ltd contract has been terminated, Mr Cregeen is curious to know what that machine that checked the Island's road surface discovered.

John Shimmin, in his last Tynwald, will be asked to make a statement about Freedom of Information Act. We will find out, perhaps, whether operations can be delayed because the patient is overweight or a smoker and what progress has been made with settling the case of the Attorney General.

There are also 23 questions for written answers.