One point I heard made was the idea that sitting until midnight on Wednesday in some way comes from the Opposition. It does not. That is a proposal from the Government at the Dáil reform committee, the idea that we use the Convention Centre on a Wednesday and sit until midnight. We could continue to do votes on a Thursday and it seems clear to me that the incentive behind that is the idea of people leaving Dublin early on a Thursday. There is no need for that. We could be sitting late on Thursday.

The other point I make is that Deputy Boyd Barrett wrote to the Business Committee today. Obviously, what has happened in terms of the Government decision yesterday is new. It happened since the Business Committee met on Thursday so it is perfectly responsible for us to come in here and say that we need to have a debate on it.

On a point of clarification about what the Taoiseach said, we have not had a leaders' briefing in three weeks. We have had only one since he became Taoiseach. I missed last week's meeting but we always make our dissent known at the meeting. Members from my group do not come in and object to something to which we agreed. We make it known that we are not happy with the progress.

Is the business for the week agreed?

On Thursday's business, the Taoiseach would have to agree that there have been extraordinary developments in recent weeks that we could not have foreseen at the Business Committee on a Thursday.

One of them is the issue of calculated grades. I appreciate that we had the Minister for Education and Skills before us last Thursday night. The chance to have statements was welcome but there was a missing element, namely, the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. I emailed the Business Committee and the Chief Whip's office today to request that time be provided on Thursday to have that Minister in the House for statements and questions, with a similar format to that of last Thursday night. There is obviously a major crisis over places in the universities for the affected students. I ask the Taoiseach to agree to that on Thursday.

My understanding is that the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science will be before the education committee on Thursday morning. That should be reasonable, I would have thought.

To be clear again, I am asking for statements on Thursday. That is a request from our spokesperson, Deputy Conway-Walsh.

The Minister will be in front of Deputy Mac Lochlainn's spokesperson on Thursday morning at a meeting of the education committee.

I believe there could be an opportunity in the Dáil so I make my request again.

In fairness, if we are to respect our Oireachtas committees, we should consider that if an Oireachtas committee has a discussion on a matter, it would seem rather pointless to have the same discussion in the Chamber with largely the same group of people on the same day. I do not know that we would be complimented for our great use of parliamentary time if that is what we were to embark on. Can I take it that Thursday's businesses is agreed to now? Agreed. I thank all the Deputies for that.