James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are still in public session. I welcome the Minister and her team to the meeting. The Minister is familiar with procedure here so I do not need to go through that. Time is tight as we have an absolute cut-off point of 7 p.m. because the meeting will have lasted three hours by then and that is the cut-off point. I propose to allow members five minutes each for their contributions. The Minister's opening statement has been circulated to members, so if members are happy to take that as read, we can go straight into questions. Is that agreed? Agreed.