Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I ask everybody to switch off mobile phones as they cause interference with the recording equipment in the committee rooms. This meeting has been convened to consider Committee Stage of the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016. I welcome the Minister for Education and Skills and his officials to the meeting. There are 180 amendments to deal with, so I would appreciate if we were expedient. Everybody will have the opportunity to speak when he or she so wishes but I ask that we try to curtail that.