Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

For the technicality of the business, a Minister of State could come before the committee. It will take no more than ten or 15 minutes. It is not the Minister to whom we want to speak but Horse Racing Ireland. If we are satisfied, we will all agree and we will all vote it through and there will be no division. It would not take five minutes for the Minister of State. The Department has five Ministers of State so that when the Minister is tied up with other business, he can send in one of them to do business on his behalf. It is perfectly possible. I suggest that rather than have a division, which would be very unusual for this committee, we defer a decision on this to next Tuesday.