Before moving to Leaders' Questions, I ask Members to join me in extending a warm céad míle fáilte to my colleague and very good friend from the Isle of Man, the President of the Tynwald, Mr. Laurence Skelly. He is joined by a delegation of members of the Legislative Council from the House of Keys on a study visit to the Houses of the Oireachtas. We welcome the group and hope their visit is a fruitful one. Theirs is the longest established parliament in the world. I do not know about them coming here to learn from …

They are heartily welcome and I thank them for being with us today.

Could we all calm down a little, please?

Your time is up, Minister.

Can we have a little order? We move now to Deputy Barry and Solidarity Before Profit. I apologise, People Before Profit-Solidarity.

I think there is a problem with the sound up there. We might see if we can do something about that. Maybe it is just the Deputy's dulcet tones; I do not know.

I thank the Minister, Deputy Ryan, and all those who participated in Leaders' Questions today.

The Deputy might want to table a Topical Issue on that and I will deal with it.

There is a group of Questions Nos. 1 to 4 before the House. However, none of the Members posing the questions is present. I therefore propose that written responses are issued to the four Deputies, if that is in order. Yes.

I need the assistance of the House. We are coming towards the end of the first round and we now have a Government slot, with Deputy Higgins, and a Sinn Féin slot, with Deputy Ó Murchú. There are no speakers from the Independent Group but we have Deputies Boyd Barrett, Bruton and Murnane O'Connor. We will follow the schedule and I will then come back and take the Government speakers and Deputy Boyd Barrett in the second round, and then go to the Minister of State. We must wrap up by 4.45 p.m. Is that agreed? Agreed.…

Deputy Ó Murchú is not with us so we now go to Deputies Bruton and Murnane O’Connor, who have seven minutes and are sharing.

The Deputies are losing time.

The next speaker is Deputy Boyd Barrett, who will have ten minutes. Deputy Ó Murchú will then have three minutes and we will go to the Minister of State to wrap it up.

Darwin would be proud of the Deputy.

I do not know whether they have much to do with the subject matter of the debate.

We are out of time. I am sorry.

There are two minutes remaining if the Minister of State wishes to continue.

We have 105 more amendments to deal with. I ask Deputies leaving the Chamber to please do so quickly and quietly.

Amendments Nos. 4, 8, 17, 20, 21, 26, 28, 29, 32, 34, 35, 53, 79, 86 and 87 are related and will be discussed together. Will the Minister move amendment No. 4 and address the cluster, please?

Amendment No. 11 cannot be moved.