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(Speaker Continuing)
[An Ceann Comhairle:   ] If Deputy Flanagan sits down I will call him.
Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: Let me make my point.
An Ceann Comhairle: Please sit down and I will call you. Let me make it quite clear that when the time for the Order of Business expires, it is my job to proceed with the business. I was doing so, and in the middle of it no one is entitled to start shouting a point of order which has nothing to do with the business I am reaching. If the Deputy has a point of order, now that I am finished, I will listen to it. What is Deputy Flanagan's point of order?
Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: My point of order is this morning I got up waiting to talk to various------
(Interruptions).
An Ceann Comhairle: What is the Deputy's point of order?
Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: May I speak without interruption?
Deputy Frank Feighan: Was Deputy Flanagan still in his pyjamas?
An Ceann Comhairle: Please allow the Deputy to make his point of order. Please proceed, Deputy.
Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: I will proceed if it is without interruption, but it has not been so far.
An Ceann Comhairle: Please proceed, Deputy.
Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: If it is without interruption. The point I wish to make is, this morning when I got up I received a phone-----
(Interruptions).
Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: This is a farce. Am I not allowed to speak? I was elected to this House and I am not being allowed to speak. Every time I attempt to speak-----
An Ceann Comhairle: Will the Deputy please proceed?
Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: -----they insult me and cut across me.
An Ceann Comhairle: Please proceed.
Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: The point I wish to make is to ask the Ceann Comhairle to desist from making comments to the national media about the way I and other Members of the House dress.
An Ceann Comhairle: That is not a point of order.
Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: This morning I received a call from my wife to tell me my children-----
(Interruptions).
Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: Am I not allowed to make a point in the House?
An Ceann Comhairle: Excuse me, Deputy, please sit down.
Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: My children are being teased because of the comments the Ceann Comhairle is making about me.
An Ceann Comhairle: Please be seated. I did not make any-----
Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: I want an apology. The Ceann Comhairle's comments are making-----
An Ceann Comhairle: Please sit down.
Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: -----my life and my family's life difficult.
An Ceann Comhairle: I am going to suspend the sitting.
Sitting suspended at 11.32 a.m. and resumed at 11.37 a.m.
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