Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The only way around this is to have each person as a member of two committees, and even then I will only have 12 members. When I take into account, as most will be aware from committees, that there is probably one third on most committees in general who are poor attenders, one third who come in for a while and leave, and one third who stick it out every day and do a great deal of work, by taking one third of the available pool of Members, along with their experience and knowledge, out of the committees, we will come up with a significant logistical problem. There will be plenty of time over the coming months to debate this issue. We need a rational and detailed debate. It is time we stopped running down this House.

I want to point to one interesting intended or unintended consequence that runs in the face of all popular debate that is taking place, that is, if the Acting Chairman will allow me one more minute-----

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