Troubled waters will be navigated during the final Tynwald sitting of the parliamentary year, starting today (Tuesday), ensuring there will be plenty to talk about during the summer recess.

Anyone looking for Infrastructure Minister Ray Harmer MHK after this week’s sitting is best advised to seek out the nearest darkened room to the legislative buildings, where he will almost certainly be lying down.

Whether by his design, or by that of others, he finds himself not only having to steer the debate on whether the Steam Packet’s revised offer of a sea services agreement should be accepted - and what to do if it is not - but, he will also lay before his parliamentary colleagues the latest proposals for a new promenade redevelopment scheme.

The chances either debate being short and to the point are akin to Katie Hopkins being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Not only that, Mr Harmer will also be seeking Tynwald support for the new National Infrastructure Strategy.

In another month, the potential for this to lead to numerous grievances coming to the fore would be great. But, fatigue may mean that, on this occasion, the infrastrategy - as we can only hope it will be dubbed - should be a more straight-forward task than the other two items. There is a good chance, however, if it has been read closely, that the Jargon Police will be getting a call.

In the 40-item agenda, there is one notable absence.

Earlier this year, Chief Minister Howard Quayle indicated the report of the Karran inquiry would be laid before the July Tynwald. Although the report, including some damning commentary on the parole system, has been published, it has not appeared on the agenda.

What does appear - again - is more about parliamentary reform. The debate on Lisvane may have only been a few weeks ago, but it appears members are already suffering withdrawal symptoms.

A report by the Select Committee on the Functioning of Tynwald will be placed before the chamber.

It seeks authority to consider whether MLCs should be able to vote on the appointment of the chief minister and whether the Bishop should retain his vote, as well as whether MHKs should be eligible for nomination to the Legislative Council.

That is item 20 on the agenda. Moving not-so-swiftly on to items 37 and 38, and Lawrie Hooper (LibVannin, Ramsey) has motions calling for the bishop to lose his vote and that MLCs should not vote on the appointment of the chief minister - and that the recommendations should be referred to the Select Committee on the Functioning of Tynwald to report with recommendations to Tynwald.

It’s possible that this is a superior level of joined-up thinking, in that Mr Hooper’s motions will enable the select committee to get cracking straight away if its own report is approved. We hope so.

There’s plenty more on the agenda, including the Chief Constable’s annual report.

We haven’t even mentioned the 52 questions tabled for this week’s sitting. Thankfully, half of these are for written answer, as a whole range of important issues are covered and a few manifesto pledges to raise matters are ticked off.

At that stage, we could start a public debate about the length of time until the next sitting (October), or we may just find out of there’s another darkened room available.