I have with me the original report of the Business Committee for this week and there was originally a very extensive schedule of business to be conducted over today and tomorrow. This is the business of the Dáil, not the business of the Government exclusively. I want the Business Committee to look very seriously at whether there is a point to the Business Committee if we are going to be just dictated to and told: “This is how things are going to be.
The Government dictates the business in the Business Committee. Can I just ask, in that spirit, whatever about the Business Committee, and there is clearly a problem that needs to be addressed, I am not raising the issue of the Business Committee. In relation to the Business Committee, I have endeavoured and will continue to endeavour to work with my colleagues across the House on the scheduling of business.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Cormac Devlin and Hildegarde Naughton; Níl, Deputies Mattie McGrath and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn.
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