Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

I wish to raise a point of order. This might be a good point to make it, at the beginning of the term. It is proposed to group 37 questions on significantly different subjects together. They involve two summits, trips abroad, visits to various countries, the discussions with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom etc. We cannot do business in this fashion where so diverse subjects are rolled into one set of answers, especially, as the Ceann Comhairle stated, where there will be no time in any event to pursue them by way of supplementary question. This entire tranche of questions will fall, after a period of absence from the House of some six weeks.

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