Apology over question processing
Deputy Kelly apologised for an offensive remark while maintaining his dissatisfaction with how questions are processed; the Ceann Comhairle accepted and announced a private-notice question on Talbot Motors.
Before business resumes, Sir, I ask you to give me a few seconds to say that I said something this morning during a heated exchange which I recognise was offensive to you. I was and am suspicious of and dissatisfied with the way in which questions are processed, but I recognise that I ought not to have expressed that dissatisfaction in the form of the crude imputation which I was guilty of, and I am sorry about it.