We are now four months on from the general election and we have only ten more sitting days until the Easter recess. The legislative priority of the Government so far was to get more money for junior Ministers. We have no committees established. The Government has sat on that matter. It has proven itself to be truly a do-nothing Government. The Dáil is effectively in cold storage. The Government priority is to placate Michael Lowry and his underlings with the pretence and fiction that they can carry out Opposition functions in the Dáil.

Rubbish.

I ask that the Government desists from this course of action, respects the role we have, as the Opposition, allows us to get on with our work and, dare I suggest it, you get on with yours.

Many of us in opposition are very concerned to hear the Government suggesting that we are somehow delaying the formation of committees.

Of course, you are.

It is the Government that is seeking to change Standing Orders. The Ceann Comhairle ruled on the Lowry lads’ status to the effect that they are not a technical group in opposition. We in opposition are abiding by that ruling of the Ceann Comhairle. The Government is seeking to change it. It is looking to bring in changes to Standing Orders that we have not seen. Our Whips have not seen the detail of the changes to Standing Orders or sessional orders that the Government is proposing. Apparently, we are going to get that next week. Apparently, it will be pushed to a vote by the Government. In the meantime, committees cannot be formed because the Government is looking to change things. When will we see this wording that we are hearing so much about from the Government? When will the Government accept that people cannot be in government and in opposition at the same time?