It is not agreed. Since the Business Committee last met the week before last, an issue we have discussed this morning and which is of the gravest importance to the entire country has come into view. We have major disruption of our secondary schools. Students or teachers are locked out, depending on how one wants to view it.

Does the Deputy have a proposal in relation to the Order of Business?

I have a proposal. There has been claim and counterclaim today on the reasons for the teachers' dispute and the method by which it can be resolved and that requires that we have a debate.

Is the Deputy proposing-----

It is simply unacceptable that this could continue.

What is your proposal, Deputy? Let us not have a debate about it.

My proposal is that we have a debate. I accept that we cannot have it today given the schedule before us, but it is reasonable to propose that there is a proper debate tomorrow to give everybody an opportunity to clarify his or her views and to put forward proposals to resolve it so that this lock-out does not continue and tens and thousands of young people are not further discommoded.

Therefore, the question is being opposed.

Yes.

The Business Committee-----

What?

The question was put to the Business Committee.

That was two weeks ago. The lock-out has happened since then.

Deputies, please.

I am asking for a bit of urgency to respond to something that is happening now.

Deputy Boyd Barrett, please.

We did not know two weeks ago that the gates would be closed tomorrow and on Thursday and Friday.