Vote button incident
Deputy Danny Healy-Rae raises concerns about a Minister pressing another Minister’s vote button during a division. The Chair repeatedly rules it out of order and says it will be handled by the Committee on Procedure, while several Members comment that the matter is serious.
I want to ask the Taoiseach if it is correct and allowable that one Minister can press another Minister's vote button. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, pressed the button of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, during the vote for his Bill last Thursday.
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Where will this be dealt with? It is totally unfair.
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The Criminal Courts of Justice.
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Will he please come into this Chamber and explain what he was at? He reached across and pressed the Minister, Deputy Zappone's, button.
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She was also paired, a Cheann Comhairle.
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It is very serious, and everyone is taking a very dim view of it.
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Your teller did not take a dim view of it the other day.