Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

We have a concept here that if the House is sitting the whole infrastructure and architecture of the House has to be present. There is no reason we cannot discuss a report here on a Friday or a Monday but it should not have to require the whole structure and formality of the House. As long as we continue to do that we will never get it right. I will have been dead 100 years and it will not be achieved. Reports could be debated for so many hours on a Monday with one of the deputy cathaoirligh present where staff would not have to record every single word. If the rules were changed we could do that, but if we try to keep all the formalities my honest opinion is that we will never get it through.

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