Marie Moloney (Labour)

The Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, will come to the House in an hour's time. We have been calling on him to do so for months. Each of us has raised specific health matters on the Order of Business. We have always been given a reply to the effect that the Minister will eventually come to the House to answer such questions. In the interests of fairness and to facilitate good contributions, I ask the Leader to give each Senator at least two minutes to ask questions. Most of the 60 Senators will have to wait for the spokespersons and the Cathaoirleach to speak. It would be a question of extending the sitting time of the House today by one hour, at the very most. The Minister will also have made a contribution. I ask the Leader to extend the amount of time allowed for questions to at least two minutes per Senator.