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- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry, no.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: No, I am sorry Deputy, there are no more clarifications.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: It will still be a matter for the Business Committee whose members can make up their minds next week. We are not doing that now. I call on the Minister of State without precondition.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: To clarify, the Ceann Comhairle has already made an order. In accordance with the order of the House, the debate adjourns and a concluding speech, because it relates to statements, is not appropriate in those circumstances. The Minister of State may speak in the normal way but should recognise that in the event of the debate coming back into the House, there may be further speeches.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: The Ceann Comhairle also clarified that. We have no way of determining what the Business Committee might come up with in the next week. It may come up with another opportunity and it may not. That is something over which we have no control. The only thing we have control over is that the debate adjourns, which clearly says the debate is open-ended. There could be speeches later and there...
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: I do not want to spend the whole evening debating the potential of the debate now, if I can help it.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: No. I will be-----
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy should resume his seat.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy should resume his seat.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: I will come back to the Deputy in a second.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: I will come back to the Deputy. He should resume his seat.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry, Deputy.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy should resume his seat and I will be back to him in a second.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: Not indefinitely. This is not going to go on indefinitely. We are going to bring this to a conclusion in the next five minutes one way or the other.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: Each Member shall have 20 minutes each. A Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a statement in reply which will not exceed ten minutes. That was the order of the House originally and that is the way it stays. There will be no deviation from that. The debate adjourns then. The debate adjourns. Does anyone have any problem with that?
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: There was another speaker before Deputy Ó Cuív.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: I am glad the Deputy did not attribute the fault to anybody because there is no confusion as far as I am concerned.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: There is absolutely no confusion as far as I am concerned. I read the rule into the record as it stands before me. We were here during the debate at the beginning. The debate adjourned to facilitate speakers. There is a time now within which people may conclude their submissions to the House. If speakers are not here, it is a long-standing tradition of the House that they defer and that...
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: We should conclude in a minute.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)
Bernard Durkan: There was no confusion at all.