During the Order of Business in the Seanad, I said:  I congratulate the Cathaoirleach and the Oireachtas Committees on Procedure and Privileges following the recent publication of an Oireachtas document detailing savings...

Following decisions of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission and the Committees on Procedure and Privileges of both Houses a number of instances of red tape removal and savings are listed. The savings amount to over €1 million. The daily editions of the Official Report of debates in both Houses and the committees will be produced in electronic format only. Well done.

Dáil questions and replies will be published in electronic format only. Printers in Leinster House will be configured to print automatically on both sides of the paper unless requested otherwise. Staff and printing costs are to be saved by moving to a system of paperless committees during 2011.

Congratulations is due to the Committees on Procedure and Privileges of both Houses for the opportunity to save money and save what seems to be a major amount of waste.

I still have a hang-up. We receive the Order Paper in an envelope in our pigeonholes every day. I do not know why we need an envelope.