Deputy Barry does not determine who the speakers are or the order in which they are taken.

Excuse me, I am on my feet. The Deputy will resume his seat.

Will the Deputy please resume his seat? The situation is quite clear. Several speakers were not here at the time they were scheduled to speak. As a result, the debate progressed to the point at which there was nobody in the Chamber offering who had not already spoken. I called on the Minister to respond and, as he stood to do so, Deputies Boyd Barrett and Michael Collins entered the Chamber and made a case that, because they were entering at that point, they should be allowed to speak. I agreed and made a ruling th…

Your were not here.

No, you are not.

Will you resume your seat? Deputy O'Donoghue is on his feet.

You have made your point.

Deputy McGuinness might as well make his point also.

I appreciate that individual Deputies work on the basis of schedules provided to them, though not by me or my office. Deputies will have to look elsewhere for where those schedules come from. Those schedules, as I understand it, are estimated times. When we started this debate, the Minister was the only person in the House. It has happened before that numerous people have missed their slots or turned up outside of time. The precedent is that, once the Minister has been called, we do not revisit the situation. We co…

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Mairéad Farrell - the need for an ambulance base to be located centrally in Conamara to ensure all of Conamara is covered all of the time; (2) Deputy Bernard J. Durkan – the need to set up a structure in the courts to address the merits of decisions in cases that have been before and through the courts on numerous occasions, without resolution, or …

I thank the Minister of State for being here to deal with this matter.

I thank the Minister of State for her honesty. I call Deputy Farrell.

Thank you. It is outrageous that State agencies would treat this House with contempt when they produce to us, by way of an answer to a serious question, waffle rather than a substantial answer. The Minister of State is to be commended on her integrity in the manner in which she has dealt with this.

As Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne is not present, I call Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh.

I thank the Minister of State for his helpfulness. It seems that we have another reply for the waffle box.

I thank the Minister. Having regard to the time allocated and the fact we must have 15 minutes at the end for the wrap-up, I estimate that with seven Deputies offering, we have about five minutes per Deputy. Is that okay?

You are not getting 15 minutes, but ten.

Deputy Joan Collins is first.

I thank Deputy Pringle. He is becoming quite adept at getting his Private Members' Bills through the House. I congratulate him on that. Can I take it that it is unanimously agreed that the Bill is now read a Second Time?

In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed to the weekly division time this evening.