Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Business of Joint Committee

2:00 pm

Photo of Alex WhiteAlex White (Dublin South, Labour)
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I asked the clerk whether the witnesses were given a time limit for their presentations. They were given between five and ten minutes each, which I think is fair enough.

Although I have just been elected Chairman of the committee, I had already scheduled a meeting, which took me two months to organise, for later this afternoon, so I will have to ask to be excused from the Chair and for an Acting Chairman to take over for a portion of the meeting. If the meeting is still in session when I have finished I will return. With the members' permission, can this be agreed? Agreed. I thank the committee members.