Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is not a question that requires a response but a number of us do have more detailed questions on the substitute consent. Our difficulty is that we must table amendments at 11 a.m. on Thursday and we have not yet seen the final text of the Department's amendments because it has not been published. We will have to consider amending things that have yet to be published. Without in any way wanting to burden the witnesses with unnecessary work if, through our Chairman, there was a small number of specific questions we wanted written clarification on, could we submit them to the officials by the end of business today with an expectation they would endeavour to give us a response tomorrow? Can the officials also tell us when they expect the publication of their final substitute consent amendments?