The Dail adjourns today for three months until October 3rd. However, the Labour Party pointed out yesterday that it was the Dail plenary session that was adjourning and not the Dail. "It is incorrect and damaging to give the impression that we are leaving this place until October 3rd," the party leader, Mr Ruairi Quinn, said.

"There are committees scheduled for next week and the following week and there will be committee sessions of the Dail through September."

He called for an amendment to Standing Orders to say the "plenary session" of the Dail was adjourning, after the Minister for Education, Dr Woods, leading the Order of Business for the Taoiseach, said the Dail would adjourn.

Dr Woods said he was happy Mr Quinn raised the issue "because it tends to be neglected".