Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

I would like to raise an issue relating to the business of the House. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise a matter on the Adjournment last Thursday, which concerned the withdrawal of 4.5 SNAs from the special school in Celbridge, County Kildare. The format for the Adjournment debate used to be that a Minister would respond to what a Member had to say but the new format is that a Minister of State is given a sheaf of Civil Service scripts, which the Minister has not seen, to read. This relates to the business of the House and I would like the Taoiseach to examine this. For example, the Minister for Education and Science knows much more about the issue I raised than was outlined in the script read by the Minister of State, Deputy Connick.

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