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

It does create problems, although I will not get into that now. It is not open to the clerk to the committee to contribute right now but dealing with two issues in one day would create difficulties and I am conscious of that. We need to be realistic about what we can cover. The preparation for a meeting in any given week is considerable, as members will know from the work they put into meetings along with their personal assistants, the secretariat, the Comptroller and Auditor General's office and everyone else involved. It is not as simple as just scheduling a meeting and the meeting happens. Weeks of work go into the build-up.

We need to move on. The option is there and I propose we return to it when we can allow the secretariat to comment. We will try to deal with it that way. For now, the schedule up to 3 March has been nailed down and there is a provisional schedule beyond that.