Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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This is a perennial issue, but I understand that we are now taking 16 questions in the first tranche, varying from dealing with the undocumented to a meeting with the governor of Texas. In the third tranche we are taking one question. It seems that we have to do things better than to give 15 minutes to 16 questions and then 15 minutes to one question.

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Except that one question is mine.

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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I am happy for the Deputy to ask it.

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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I am joking.

Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Ceann Comhairle)
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There are nine questioners. It seems to me that it is impossible to deal with nine people posing questions in 15 minutes. Would Members be agreeable to allocating two blocks of questions?

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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The last questions are mine.

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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We will go with the three minutes.

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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How much time is the Ceann Comhairle allocating for each block?

Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Ceann Comhairle)
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There is 15 minutes for each block.

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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I would be happy to cut my very specific question about correspondence to six or seven minutes-----

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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It is important.

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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-----and then give extra time to the other two.

Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Ceann Comhairle)
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In that case we will give an extra nine minutes to the first 16.

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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I am so helpful.

Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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The Deputy is.

Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Ceann Comhairle)
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I ask Members to be succinct.