Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

With the permission of the Chair, may I intervene? Will the clerk to the joint committee make a reference to Standing Order 57, as we are giving evidence in a public committee? We are legislators. There is no point in somebody telling a legislator about the Standing Orders of the Houses of the Oireachtas. There is a standing order that provides that in the public interest we can ask any question, irrespective of whether matter is sub judice.