The crisis over the public sector pensions legacy funding and the new deal with the Steam Packet look set to the political horizon in Tynwald today.

The heads of terms of the new sea services agreement - not the actual final version of the agreement itself - are due to be put before Tynwald for approval.

There has been plenty of talk about what that could mean in terms of new vessels, changes to the regularity of services in some destinations and so forth, so we can probably expect a fair amount of comment.

The motion also calls upon Tynwald to instruct the Department of Infrastructure to finalise a legally-binding agreement by the end of May. It does not specify whether that finalised deal will also need Tynwald approval.

Meanwhile, the latest Cabinet Office report on how to address the spiralling funding gap - the shortfall between income from contributions and expenditure on benefits - is due to be debated.

It sets out a series of options including bringing in a voluntary defined contribution scheme.

But Treasury department member Bill Shimmins is set to table an amendment to close the current unfunded scheme to all new members, who he believes should be placed automatically on the defined contribution scheme. It is not a popular move with the public sector union Prospect.

Another issue about which something needs to be done is climate change.

Environment Minister Geoffrey Boot is due to give a statement. His department is due to be holding a consultation on a strategy some time soon.

Following his statement, there will be two reports, one from the Manx Utilities Authority, on electric heating, vehicles and green energy tariffs, and the other from the DoI, on low emission travel, down for debate.

If I were being predictably sarcastic, I could mention that perhaps Tynwald could do its bit for the environment by cutting down on hot air. But I’m not the sarcastic type.

Also on the agenda - further sarcasm alert in the ’what politicians produce when talking’ oeuvre- is the approval being sought to spend £23.5 million the MUA’s latest phase of regional sewage treatment works.

Do you remember, about a year ago, there was all this talk about it being time to stop the Department of Health and Social Care coming back every year asking for some extra money after exceeding its budget?

Well, there’s a motion down asking Tynwald to authorise an extra £4 million for the DHSC in ’respect of excess expenditure’.

Still, it’s not just the DHSC, the Department of Home Affairs is asking for an extra £1.5 million.

With Brexit probably happening some time either this month, this decade, or maybe just in Jacob Rees-Mogg’s top hat, it is no surprise to find a number of Tynwald orders relating to it.

That’s kind of downplaying the volume of secondary legislation members will be asked to rubber-stamp - if I could be bothered to count them all,

I’m sure we’d find there are more orders there than there are walkers left on Nigel Farage’s march.

I’ve not even mentioned the authorisation being sought by the Treasury to issue up to £115 million of Manx currency, but there’s got to be a ’we have to fund the next Tynwald members’ pay rise somehow’ quip to be made at some stage.

The main agenda paper ends with a motion from Tanya August-Hanson MLC seeking support for the establishment of a Manx Youth Parliament.

Not a bad idea. They could probably teach the big kids currently running the country a thing or two.

There’s a surprisingly light question paper - perhaps some members are saving their voices for the meaty debates mentioned above.

Want to know some of the highlights? Go on then. They include the quality and healthiness of school meals (and those at the NSC café), who decides on prosecutions, who are the island’s biggest employers and the level of consultation ahead of the Education Bill being drafted.

The closing date for the public consultation on that, by the way, is tomorrow (Wednesday).