Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I wish to comment on this. The Minister concerned has been in the news in recent days. The point has been made that the conference the Minister is attending was arranged by her predecessor and that there was no facility to change the position of these questions on the rota because this is the first day of the Dáil session after the summer recess. If it is true that this matter was arranged before the summer, then surely the facility existed to have the rota changed back in July. I make this point to the Chairman of the House for accuracy. It is not true to say that these questions could not have been changed. If this conference was arranged, agreed and set up during the tenure of the Minister's predecessor, then there was ample opportunity to change the rota in July. I make this point for accuracy.

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