Seán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

That is not the point. The point is that the during the debate on the Lisbon treaty we made great play of the fact that individual parliaments could scrutinise European proposals. Therefore, provision must be made to make time available to debate reports produced by committees. It is a general principle and I want to know whether the Government will provide for it.

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