I thank the Taoiseach. Is the proposal for dealing with today's business agreed to?

Is the proposal for dealing with today's business agreed to? Agreed. Is the proposal for dealing with tomorrow's business agreed to?

The Deputy got a response from me last week.

I ask that the Deputy let Deputy Micheál Martin speak and we will hear him.

I did.

It was very interesting, all right.

We cannot keep having a detailed debate about it.

Before I call the Taoiseach, I will just point out two matters. There is a difference between the call from many Members for a debate on the principle of this two-hour duration regime, which I believe would be more appropriately explored in some detail at the Covid committee. There is a difference between that and the issue before us today, which is simply a piece on the Order of Business, namely, do we or do we not transact the business tomorrow. The second point Members must bear in mind is that they should read …

With respect, I think it is matter for the Taoiseach and the Government.

Given the order of the House in relation to the transaction of divisions, we must now take a sos for ten minutes.

I call on the Taoiseach to make his statement.

We are trying to put Committee Room 1 in place.

The Taoiseach might correspond with Deputy McDonald on that.

At this point we are approaching two hours of the Taoiseach being present in the Chamber. I ask him to relocate to committee room 1, where he will be beamed into us. I propose we have a brief sos while he takes himself to committee room 1, after which we will proceed to Deputy Catherine Murphy's questions.

We welcome the Taoiseach as he takes questions from the lovely surroundings of committee room 1. We shall proceed with the Social Democrats and Deputy Catherine Murphy.

We shall resume. For the information of the Members, on foot of the Order of the Dáil of 5 March 2020, I wish to announce for the information of the House that the following Members have been appointed to serve on the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: representing the Government, Deputies Alan Farrell, Emer Higgins and Patrick O'Donovan; Fianna Fáil being represented by Deputies Mary Butler, Marc MacSharry and Charlie McConalogue; Sinn Féin by Deputies Rose Conway-Walsh, Pa Daly and Aengus Ó Snodaigh; t…

Rachaimid ar aghaidh leis an gcéad phíosa gnó eile: Uimh. 8, ráiteas ón Aire Cumarsáide, Gníomhaithe ar son na hAeráide agus Comhshaoil maidir le Covid-19. The floor is the Minister's and he has ten minutes.

I understand that Deputy Chambers is sharing time with his colleagues.

We may take the other contributions and come back to the Minister at the end.

I am sorry but there is no opportunity to respond to those questions now.