It is proposed to take Nos. 1 and 12.
Order of Business.
I assume we are sitting four days next week.
Yes.
Is there anything which can be done to regulate the heating system to make it at least comfortable?
That matter can be looked into.
I have not met anybody who has complained about it being too cold or even comfortable. We have been fried.
Some are stewed as well.
Speak for yourself.
If we could regulate it so that it would remain at a reasonable level rather than up and down it would be more comfortable.
On the Order of Business and under Standing Order 29 we have very important business to do and we have not Deputy O'Higgins here who is practising law at the Four Courts. I want to give you notice, Sir, that under Standing Order 29 that this is a regular performance by Deputy O'Higgins. He is there at the heats and the very lucrative sweats in the vineyards of the Four Courts every day and drawing his Dáil salary under false pretences.
That is not a point of order.
He should be here. He is paid to be here and he should not let the practice of his profession interfere with his services to this House.
That is not a point of order.
What is the point of order?
I am entitled to raise this matter under Standing Order 29 as a matter of urgent public importance and to refer to Deputy O'Higgins's failure to do his Dáil business here for which he is paid a salary.
That is not a point of order.
You are conniving with him.
I am not conniving with him but it is very hard for me to hear or make myself heard.
The Minister took a hard-hitting last week and he had to retaliate in some way.
When people publicly crawthump about practising of the law and notoriously absent themselves from this House and do not do their business, the Dáil is entitled to take judicial notice of it.
You are a lovely Minister for Justice.
(Interruptions.)
The Minister is malpractising.
Deputy O'Higgins is well paid for doing what he is doing but he is drawing his Dáil salary and should be here in this House instead of in the law courts.
He is entitled to be there.