Seán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, Ceann Comhairle)

Unless the Government wants to produce an amendment to the order, I am not in position to do so. All I do is apply the rules. The order states that immediately following the statements "a Minister or Minister of State shall take questions for a period not exceeding 30 minutes". That does not restrict other Members from asking questions. I am just talking about the statements, which are confined to the spokespersons and "shall not exceed 15 minutes". If the Deputy wants to reduce the time-----

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