Paddy Burke (Fine Gael)
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I welcome the Minister to the House.

Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail)
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I thank the Minister for being in the House this evening. The Minister will be aware of the issue in Meath. I have asked the Minister for Education and Skills to make a statement on the financial issues facing the Educate Together organisation. The matter I have raised relates specifically to Educate Together and the organisation has been in direct contact with me, but this is affecting all patrons.

Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail)
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I will give way to the Minister but I have already started. Is that in order?

Paddy Burke (Fine Gael)
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We have started on the second matter. Are you giving way?

Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail)
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I do not mind, but I have started. I really do not mind. Go ahead, it is fine.

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The way the Chamber is ordered is a disgrace.

Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail)
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Deputy Varadkar does not want this Chamber to be here in the first place.

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Chamber could at least order business efficiently. Anyway, go on.

Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail)
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I need not give way on foot of those comments. We are trying to facilitate the Minister. An important debate took place in the House facilitated by the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. She came to the House to answer questions about what happened in Swinford. That was the reason for the delay.

Paddy Burke (Fine Gael)
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Senator Mullen, please proceed.

Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail)
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It is very unfair of the Minister to say the way the business is ordered in this House is a disgrace. The Minister may wish to consider how it works in the other House, the use of guillotines and how the Government orders its business.

Paddy Burke (Fine Gael)
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Senator Mullen, please.