Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As we are resuming in public session, I remind everyone to please turn off their mobile phones. The public is being very attentive to the proceedings of this committee this morning. My constituency office received several phone calls from people saying that they could not follow all of the debate because some people in this room are clicking their pens or affecting the microphones in some way. Those who are listening and watching attentively have not been able to hear the audio properly because individuals in this room are not aware of this. The phones calls to which I refer show that people are watching everything. Some of us are clicking our pens too loudly. I ask that people refrain from doing so in future.