Arising out of the Minister's answer to those four questions and out of his reference to a consultative commission, which I have heard him mention here before, how many members of that commission are engaged full-time on the commission's work?

That is a separate question.

I am trying to find out something about this commission.

The question relates specifically to a particular railway line.

I do not want to fall out with you over this but the Minister gave a reply in which he more or less shoved the entire weight of exercising a discretion and judgment in this matter on to a commission. I want to question him a bit about this commission. Have the commission got any full-time members or full-time staff?

I did not shove responsibility for anything on to a commission. The Government took a decision, which the Opposition had stated on numerous occasions would not be taken, on the electrification of the Howth-Bray line. With regard to this consultative commission I already stated on numerous occasions that they were considering the whole situation in relation to urban areas, particularly Dublin, and within their considerations would be the question of the other aspects in the report I have referred to.

It is one and a half years since that commission were established. I am trying to discover from the Minister how intensive is the consideration to which he referred. Are there any people on the commission who do nothing else except the work of the commission or are they all people from other Departments doing other things most of the time? How often do they meet?

We have had the usual exaggeration on the part of the Deputy. This commission were established in September 1978, which is not one and a half years ago.

Let us not chop straws. It is a year and a bit ago. How often have they met since then?

That is a separate question.

I have asked them to make a report to me as quickly as possible.

Could the Minister tell us how often that commission have met?

Deputy Quinn who asked one of the questions has been trying to get in for some time.

Are the commission doing any independent work of their own or are they simply sitting back doing nothing until some other——

Deputy Quinn.

Could I, with respect to the House and to Deputy Kelly, ask that the next time Deputy Kelly should put down the questions himself? As I have two questions down in my name, no disrespect to my colleague Deputy Kelly——

Will the Deputy stop himself coming in on my questions?

No, I will not.