It is proposed to take Nos. 28 and 30. By agreement the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. today and not later than 11.30 p.m. and business will be interrupted at 11 p.m. Private Members' Business shall be No. 52.
Order of Business.
Is the late sitting agreed.?
Deputies
Agreed
On the Order of Business, let me ask the Taoiseach or his Minister to make a statement on the up-to-date position of Verolme Cork Dockyard in view of the fact that the pride of the Irish workforce and the design teams, the P31, is now to be built in shipyards around the world while the dockyard in Cork and its workforce are lying idle.
That is not in order. I do not know whether you were here last week but you may take it from the Chair that it is not in order.
I consider it a national disgrace and a scandal that the P31 is to be built in dockyards around the world. If that is not a scandal I do not know what is.
In view of the unsatisfactory reply to me from the Minister I wish to raise the matter on the Adjournment.
I will communicate with the Deputy.