Verona Murphy

Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 are related will be discussed together.

Good afternoon and welcome to all our guests in the Gallery. I call Deputy McDonald on Leaders' Questions under Standing Order 38.

The Taoiseach to respond now, Deputy.

The Taoiseach to respond.

Taoiseach will respond now, Deputy. Thank you.

Before our next question, as colleagues can see, we have a number of guests in the Distinguished Visitors Gallery. I hope you will all join with me in giving them a hearty céad míle fáilte. First, I am delighted, especially on Bastille Day, to welcome Mr. Michel Barnier, member of the National Assembly of France, former prime minister, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator and great friend of the Irish…

Just behind them is a delegation from Canada led by Mr. James Maloney, MP, president of the Canada-Ireland Interparliamentary Group, and accompanied by H.E. Dennis King, the ambassador to Ireland from Canada. You are most welcome.

In a break from tradition but as we are doing the welcomes - we have a lot of people in the Public Gallery - I wish to especially welcome Siobhán and Martin Lynch whom some have mentioned already. They are the parents of Grace Lynch who was killed in a tragic accident in January. They are in the Gallery today. They will be making an appearance at a meeting of the justice committee. You are most we…

I thank the Deputy and call on the Taoiseach to respond.

Deputy, please.

Time is up.

Taoiseach, the time is up.

I am afraid you were-----

-----not afforded the opportunity.

The problem is that the Deputy-----

I thank the Chief Whip but I am in the Chair. I call on Deputy Ivana Bacik.

Let this be a lesson to other Members to listen to the answer.

It is not unfair. Time is time.

The Taoiseach will respond now.

I thank the Deputy. The Taoiseach, please.

The Deputy's time is up. The Taoiseach to respond.

I call Deputy Sheehan. Thirty seconds.

The Taoiseach to respond.

We stick to our time, Deputy, and that is that.

Taoiseach, time is up.