The matter will be dealt by the Committee of Selection.

It needs to be dealt with here, in fairness.

Senator, come back to the House.

I ask the Leader to go back to the Taoiseach, or whoever made the balls for him to throw on this particular occasion, and say the following in the interest of democracy as opposed to authoritarianism. I want him to say that, in contrast to the method of allocating speaking rights in this House, where the largest Opposition party has been excluded from certain things, and in contrast to the Government's policy in appointing the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, whereby the Taoiseach and Ministers opted to take all of the discretionary appointments for Labour Party and Fine Gael members, on this occasion we should facilitate the inclusion in the banking inquiry of the expertise of the likes of Senator Barrett, including Members of the other House. That should be done as per the practice, which is fair. Irrespective of whether it is Marc MacSharry, Darragh O'Brien, Diarmuid Wilson or any other Fianna Fáil colleague-----

The Senator is way over time.

This matter is very important.

That may well be, but the Senator is over time.

This point is very important.

There are several ways for him to raise the issue.

They will have to wait. The situation is that the largest Opposition party is comprised of 14 Senators.

This constitutes 24% of the membership of the House and they ought to have a Senator as a member. On this occasion, as the Senator who praises the Leader most for his innovations-----

I do not see how this is relevant to the Order of Business.

-----I suggest that the Leader speak to the Minister of State, Deputy Paul Kehoe, and the Taoiseach and say that he will not be the puppet with its strings pulled but that he will lead the Seanad in the interests of democracy as opposed to a hang-them-high fudge by the Government.

The Senator is over his time.

In the interest of the credibility of the inquiry, we would like to ensure the full participation of the necessary bodies.