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Dáil
‹ Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation

Order of Business

Summary

The Ceann Comhairle complains that Members are overrunning their allotted time and ignoring the rules of the House; Deputy McGrath spars briefly with the Chair.

That concludes Leaders' Questions.

Before moving to Questions on Promised Legislation I wish to point out that we already have 31 Members indicating, 15 of whom are carried forward from yesterday. Leaders' Questions routinely now runs over time. We do not get everyone in on Questions on Promised Legislation because Members do not adhere to the allocated time of one minute for questions any more than they adhere to the Leaders' Questions timeline. Constantly ignoring the rules of the House is seriously corrosive of the parliamentary system.

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It feeds into all sorts of other difficulties. It is not anything to laugh at. It is more to be regretted than-----

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Everything is a laughing matter for them. They will get the last laugh when they go to the people.

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Deputy McGrath, we do not need to get into that here.

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