Catherine Noone (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am telling the committee what the clerk has told me. He has a very good knowledge of procedure and both he and the legal adviser have informed me that the question, "That Article 40.3.3° should not be retained in full", has been put and that we are now to vote on it. We discussed this for the past hour and this is how we came to this point.

It is usual in committees that we have a discussion in private before we go into public session. It went on a little longer than I would have liked but the reality is that is normal.