Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

-----and was circulated this morning. It is extremely disrespectful.

It also means that we cannot properly invigilate the figures. That is supposed to be our job here, to examine all of the figures and to consider them. We are not in a position to do that because of the failure of the Department to allow sufficient time for us to consider the briefing material.

I would be very much in favour of abandoning this session also because it will not be meaningful when we are not in a position to ask the Minister relevant questions because we are not adequately briefed. We have not had time to read the document.

It is no way to do business. We should not be treated like this.