Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are in the national Parliament. There is a strike about to take place and tens of thousands of people will be discommoded as a result of what is happening. I think there are people who are looking in today who will find it farcical that the parliamentarians cannot have a conversation about it when the forum is in existence and the personnel are here. I think it would make a laughing stock of the notion that somehow we have reformed the way we do our business in the national Parliament. I will make a proposal that we enter into a discussion afterwards, in a respectful way, with Mr. Nolan, if he is prepared to take some questions. He has been very forthcoming in the past when he has come before us and I would be surprised if he was not prepared to avail us.