Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I know the Leader will respond to the Senator's question about the schedule. He gave an indication last week to colleagues - we were all very much aware that next week is Europe week - that we would have a number of MEPs here this week and that the European Commissioner would attend next week, so it was in line with the schedule. Yesterday he also gave Senators in attendance a full response about the difficulty of scheduling the attendance of Ministers during our Presidency of the Council of the European Union.