We had six councillors sitting in a row and not speaking or moving.

The clerk to the committee asked for a nomination to accept the temporary position of chair.

This resulted in total silence and he had to ask three times and warn that if no chair was nominated and approved, the meeting would require to be cancelled.

Meanwhile the Head of Legal was staring at them in disbelief as was the clerk.

At times they were glancing at the ERC higher staff perhaps looking for help, which was not forthcoming.

Eventually Ireland was nominated and accepted and took the chair.

Then the real comedy began

The video starts at around 1 minute, please take it back to the start.

youtu.be/F6Atru4jO-k?si=0-j55OIdix9h9vbw