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Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: Large parties in the House-----

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: -----do not get fairness in the allocation of speaking time. We will have a pre-Council debate tomorrow and a party with five Members will have the same amount of speaking time as a party with 44.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am resuming my seat. You raised the issue and I am responding to it with a point of order.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: What is happening at present is not satisfactory. I do not know how many times we have to communicate that.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: Yes, before everything else was agreed.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: He is adamant that he did.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: We were told-----

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Ó Snodaigh just said he was totally happy-----

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order-----

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: We have a motion to put down.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, do Standing Orders exclude the possibility of an early sitting of the House on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays?

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: Surely, a motion could be put to the House notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: So it is only a principle that has come from the Dáil reform committee and Standing Orders do not preclude it.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: We have many motions before us every week that say "notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders". Nobody can comprehend staying from 10 p.m. until midnight to discuss something instead of doing so from 10 a.m. until noon.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: It is not true. Deputy John Lahart spoke to people about it.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I did not say he was. He is on the Business Committee.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: We argued for an early sitting this week.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: You do not want to condemn Russia in Aleppo. That is your problem.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: You would never condemn Russia.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: You guys are incapable of condemning Russia.