Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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I know this is not a court but it would be usual in a case that an applicant or defendant would put in a replying affidavit on the morning of the trial so that he or she would have to get an adjournment because one does not have enough time to go through it. That would be the common course of events. I do not say we should adjourn today but we are on the back foot because we have not had time to assimilate the information, go through it, make notes and make bullet points. I feel compromised today, but if we park that to one side, I am still well capable of doing it. However, it is not the way we should conduct these proceedings in the future.