Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

That is fine. It is the outcome that concerns me. When I raised the issue and drew your attention to the Constitution and to what was in the motion, you told us that we would be able to vary the Order of Business for the House next week. I am going to keep you to that. You figure out how to do it, because we want the Order of Business varied for next week. We want a normal week's business here next week, whereby we will be able to put questions, have votes on issues and do normal parliamentary business. It is the Ceann Comhairle's problem now; he made the ruling but in doing so he told us we could vary the order next week and that the House was the master of its own destiny. He must figure out how we will do so.

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