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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputies will have six minutes each. As Deputy Creed is indicating he does not wish to speak, Deputy Kieran O'Donnell will have the full time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I must interrupt the Deputy as I need to excuse myself for a few minutes. I ask Deputy Creed to take the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I am prepared to give the Deputy substantial latitude, but making value judgments as to the private intentions of Ministers, and using words such as "despise", is out of order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: It would be acceptable for the Deputy to accuse the Minister, for example, of ignoring the question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I am willing to accommodate the Deputy as far as I can, but the type of value-based language he has used is not acceptable. It is permissible for him to accuse the Minister of being evasive, but words like "despise" are not acceptable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: If the Deputy continues to interject, I will have to move on to the next speaker. I advise him not to lose his speaking time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I have already made my position clear. I welcome the Deputy's engagement with the Minister, but if this type of nonsense continues I will move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I have asked both Deputy and Minister not to interject while the other is speaking. If interjections continue to be made, I will move on to the next speaker. Does the Deputy have a question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Boyd Barrett has 15 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask the Deputy to speak to the Minister and to the Chair and I ask other members to remain silent until it is their turn to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy should allow the Minister to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I will try to give him a minute or two to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I do not want to make an intervention. I will give the Minister and Deputy one minute each.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy has three or four minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy is going to run out of time asking questions if he does not allow the Minister respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I know that but he has spoken at great length and he has used up 15 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: No, they did not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: It was 13 minutes. The Deputy is out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I will give the Deputy one more minute for the Minister to reply. The Deputy must withdraw the comment that I am giving him a shorter time than he requires.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, and it was a 15 minutes slot and the Chair does speak first. If the Deputy wants to have an argument with me he can, and he can have an argument with everyone in the room, but those are Standing Orders and he agreed to them. I specifically agreed this privately with the Deputy beforehand and he agreed it with me privately so he should not speak one way publicly and talk privately in...