Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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I know that but our meeting is on Wednesday where the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting is held at 5.30 p.m. so that means all the Fine Gael members can be absent at a critical time when the Tánaiste and other witnesses are appearing before us. That is the difficulty we have. We will bear that in mind and I will ask the clerk to the committee to bear that in mind with respect to witnesses in the future. If members give us the times when their parliamentary party meetings are held, we will try not to hold meetings at those times if we can. Sometimes it is unavoidable, particularly if we have guests from outside because they have no other slot to come into but we will try to bear that in mind.