Is there any procedure whereby you can extend the terms of reference of the committee which was set up last week to deal with the telephone inquiry in Leinster House to include the deliberate smear campaign that has been orchestrated by a section of Fine Gael in opposition to other members within their own party against individual Members of this House and that has been so actively continued as it was when Eamon de Valera himself was accused of illegitimacy, when Seán Lemass was accused of gambling at the expense of the State, when other members of the Fianna Fáil organisation were viciously attacked, in the same way as Members of this House and members of the Fianna Fáil organisation are being attacked now. I want to suggest that you have the possibility of widening the terms of reference of this protective committee so that individuals like Deputy Mitchell who have deliberately set out to character-assassinate Members of this House could be brought before it.

Deputy Andrews, please resume your seat. The Deputy can ask a member of his party to raise the matter on the Committee on Procedure and Privileges. It is not in order to make a statement.