Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Thank you, Dr. Wall, for your opening statement.

Some more apologies have come in. Deputies Cormac Devlin and Jennifer Carroll MacNeill have sent apologies. Deputy Verona Murphy has had to leave for an interview. Some members are tied up with Dáil duties. Deputy Matt Carthy is held up for the moment but hopefully he will join us later on.

The lead speaker is Deputy Catherine Murphy, who has 15 minutes. Deputy Neasa Hourigan was due to be the second speaker but she is chairing the Committee on Budgetary Oversight this morning and cannot take up her speaking slot. I propose to give each member six minutes. I will give a reminder after five minutes when the speaker has one minute left. I hope we can move along through it and get people back in for a second time if necessary. Deputy Murphy has 15 minutes and I will give a reminder after 12 minutes.