Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

No, this is my moment. I have 30 seconds, which is all that has been given. That is all the Ceann Comhairle has allowed me and I intend to make my point. At that point the Government could have moved, along with the rest of us, to form Oireachtas committees immediately under the d'Hondt system. We were told repeatedly that the Government was going to change Standing Orders and that is why the process was delayed. I can tell the House that Standing Order 113(2), which governs the formation of committees, was not changed. We have wasted two months thanks to the Government looking after Michael Lowry. That is why our committees have not been not set up.

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