Under Standing Order 62(3)(b), I request that the division be taken again by other than electronic means.

It is not agreed.

I received an amended notice or indication of what would transpire tomorrow, including a motion regarding the State opting into the European regulations underlying the migration and asylum pact. I asked that the Joint Committee on Justice engage in a serious consideration of the proposal. This has the effect of bringing into Irish constitutional law, in effect, obligations and a surrendering of sovereignty rights of the most serious and far-reaching kind. I asked the clerk to the committee to ask the Cathaoirleach …

That is the proposal but it will not get any consideration at all and this is what I want to alert everybody in this House to. This is a most serious matter. Today I was also given access to the speaking note for the Cathaoirleach of that committee and it makes clear that none of the Minister's officials can answer any questions and only the Minister will do it.

Yes but the committee is entitled to-----

I have a limited amount of time.

Sorry-----

I know full well what the arrangements are. I am saying that I have the speaking note for the Cathaoirleach of that committee, which involves an absolute whitewash. After the Minister has made her submissions and members have made contributions, that is the end of the matter and that is the only consideration that is proposed to be given to this proposal. I protest most strongly. This is a constitutional-level change to our laws. We are about to surrender to Europe complete competence in respect of asylum seeking, …

The reason I am mentioning this is because-----

Just let me finish. The Cathaoirleach interrupted me.

With respect, I have run into a barrage from the Chair.

I protest-----

You gave me a lecture on what the normal procedure is in committees-----

-----I am fully aware of that-----

-----and I am saying this is a disgrace and I am going to bring to the attention of the media what is envisaged in relation to the so-called consideration. There is a picket outside of probable extremists but the people are entitled that their Parliament would not delegate to a committee consideration of a hugely important piece of law-----

-----and then have this whitewash charter decide what will happen at that committee.

I do not need any assistance. I only need one assistance and that is your silence, Chair. I only need that assistance. I protest most strongly about what is happening. It is wrong. We are turning this Parliament into a rubber-stamp assembly and if anybody wants to look-----

-----at the recent referendum-----

-----and what happens to rubber-stamp politics-----

-----as a result. Unfortunately in this case-----