Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I note that it seems to be done on something of a d'Hondt system in that the larger parties have four members and there are disproportionately fewer places for the smaller groupings. With what frequency is the committee going to meet and would it be the same frequency as the Dáil reform committee that was constituted here six or seven weeks ago? It would be superficial for us to set up another committee that does not meet.

Second, might the Ceann Comhairle, as Ceann Comhairle and ex officiochair of the Business Committee, propose the reconfiguration of that committee in the same proportional way as the new Covid-19 committee is constituted? It would make it entirely more proportionately representative than how it is currently constituted.

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