Catherine Noone (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Justice Laffoy for her presentation and for her hard work as chair of the assembly. I want to raise a few matters of housekeeping in advance of the questioning. Due to the number of members we have, we have a system whereby four speakers will have ten minutes in total, which will include the witness's answers. I have to be very strict because of the number of people. I know that it is tedious. I propose to members who have ten minutes that I will indicate to them when five minutes have passed in order that they are aware that they have to allow time to allow Ms Justice Laffoy to come back in, and I will indicate again when we are a minute from the end. Likewise, for those two minutes of questions, I will indicate when they are halfway through and then again 30 seconds from the end. I hope that is okay. It may seem tedious but that is what we have to do to get everyone in.