Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)

I thank the Minister. I remind members that we have less than two hours and 13 members. In order to fit everybody in, we are allocating eight minutes per person. In future, we could take shorter opening statements, or take them as read, but we only received the Minister's statement late last night so it was not possible today. Time is tight so I ask members to stick to the time limit.

There is another committee directly after us so we have to finish on time. Deputy Cullinane is first.