Am I to understand the Chair as having given a ruling in regard to Question No. 38 of Tuesday last?

I have given a ruling that I am prepared to accept the question if the Minister can answer it. If he has not got the answer I cannot compel him. I am prepared to accept it.

Are we assured by the Minister that he will answer the question?

I do not even know the question to which the Deputy is referring. I understood Deputy Horgan to say that he was afraid that, in the unlikely eventuality of all the questions on education being finished, his question would consequently be postponed for several weeks. I understood that this question would come from Deputy Horgan and I will answer it when I come to it in my ordinary list.

I would ask the Minister to clarify the point as to where this question fits into his ordinary list. Does it fit at the end of the questions which are down to him today?

Yes. It is at the end of the questions put down to me today as Minister for Education.

Today?

If the Deputy will resume his seat, I will tell him that we have now procured a copy of the question and the answer.

I have the question now and with the indulgence of the Chair I will answer it.

With the permission of the House.

With the permission of the Chair. The Chair decides.

I must be guided by the Chair. I thought Deputy Collins was helping Deputy Horgan.