The Government has acceded to Opposition demands for the committee stage of the NAMA debate to be open to every member of the Dáil.
The committee stage debate will now take place on Wednesday and Thursday next week in the Dáil chamber, and for four days the following week when the Dáil itself is on a mid-term break.
While each member will be entitled to speak, only the members of the Finance Committee will vote on the large number of amendments expected to be tabled by the Government and Opposition.
Opposition deputies earlier called for the Comptroller and Auditor General to examine the draft business plan for NAMA.
Fine Gael, Labour and Sinn Féin also called for the entire Dáil to be allowed take part in the committee stage of the bill.
This morning's order of business was dominated by Opposition complaints about the draft business plan which they claimed was tabled five minutes before last night's vote on the agency.
Richard Bruton and Joan Burton questioned its status and asked for the State spending watchdog, the C&AG, to assess its viability.
They also questioned the status of the document, with Sinn Féin's Arthur Morgan asking whether it was a Fianna Fáil or Department of Finance plan.
But their main complaint was that the committee stage of the bill would not be debated in the House, claiming the Government had promised this.
But both the Ceann Comhairle and Tánaiste Mary Coughlan insisted it had been circulated by the Department of Finance, and that the party whips who organise Dáil business could meet to agree arrangements for the committee stage.
€5bn profit questioned
Prior to the call for examination of the draft, Opposition parties poured scorn on Government predictions that the National Asset Management Agency would make a €5bn profit.
Fine Gael said the business plan unveiled by Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan provided no evidence for the assertion.
The party has since proposed 99 amendments to the NAMA legislation. It wants stronger protection for homeowners unable to pay their mortgages, and would abandon the principle of paying more than the current value for loans acquired by the agency.
Labour suggested there would be no benefit for small businesses in the NAMA scheme.
Mr Lenihan told the Dáil yesterday that just 20% of NAMA loans would ultimately default and the agency would make over €5bn in ten years.
But the predictions evoked a torrent of scorn from the Opposition.
Fine Gael's Richard Bruton said only those who believed in the tooth fairy, the Loch Ness monster and the Easter Bunny would believe the figures.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Fine Gael spokesman on finance Richard Bruton said the assertion that €30bn would be secured in six years still exposed the taxpayer to risk.
Also on the programme, Fianna Fáil's Frank Fahey questioned Mr Bruton's figures. He said Mr Bruton had made a number of wrong assumptions.
Labour's Joan Burton said it was likely that the €16bn worth of loans due to be transferred to the agency by Christmas would come from Anglo Irish Bank.
As this institution largely serviced developers, credit would not flow to small and medium-sized businesses as a result, she claimed.
Sinn Féin's Arthur Morgan described the figures as 'grossly optimistic'.
