Verona Murphy

Deputy, please have respect for the other Members.

That is it, Taoiseach. We move to questions Nos. 12 to 28, inclusive. With 16 Members and a remaining 18 and a half minutes, it is highly unlikely we will get to the third group of questions. I ask Members to be brief.

There are 12 Deputies present. They will have 30 seconds each, which means there will be six minutes for questions and six minutes for a response. That is as fair as I can be.

Finally, Deputy Conor D. McGuinness.

Taoiseach, the floor is yours for five minutes.

Do not interrupt.

No, Deputy Tóibín, do not even dare.

Deputy Tóibín will have to look for it afterwards.

Do not even think about it.

I thank the Taoiseach and Members. For future reference, if there needs to be back and forth, this is not the forum in which to pose a question.

We have a Dáil reform committee today at which it will be discussed.

This is not the forum, Taoiseach.

Before I call Deputy Gannon, who might indulge me for a moment, I would like to welcome members of the Rathangan Country Fair century of harvest committee and others who are in the Gallery. This year they were successful in achieving a world record for having all known methods of harvesting of the past century operating in the same field. It was 100 years of harvesting. While doing so, they set a …

In accordance with Standing Order 85(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time later this evening.

Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 in the names of Deputies Ó Snodaigh and Boyd Barrett, respectively, have been ruled out of order.

You are not going to start, I take it.

Minister, you can come back in later.

Exercise some caution.

It is not even in the Bill.

In the 30 seconds left in the slot, the Deputy might indulge me. Deputy Neville's family are in the Visitors Gallery. They are very welcome. I hope they enjoy their visit.

Deputy Ward.

The Deputy should stick to the motion.

If Members wish to know where we are, we are about an hour ahead. We expect that the next debate has a four-hour timeframe. It may take four hours but there will be amendments and votes called in between. That puts the voting block around 11.30 p.m. or 11.45 p.m.

I thank the Deputy. Are there any further offerings on the amendment? No. I call the Minister.

Are there any further contributions?