Taking questions together
Mitchell objected to four questions being taken together, citing limits on his supplementary questions; the Ceann Comhairle said the Chair could not control the Minister’s decision and noted Mitchell had asked five supplementaries previously.
On a point of order, I object to the Minister taking these four questions together. Last week when I had three questions on the national pay agreement I was allowed to put only one supplementary question. In the circumstances I would ask that these questions be taken separately.
Comment on this
Since the Deputy has given me the opportunity, I should like to say that I went to the trouble of looking up the records on this and while the Deputy was on his feet he asked five supplementary questions and then said he was not allowed to ask one. The Chair has no control over the Minister taking a number of questions together.