Seanad
‹ An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business Opposition attendance at budget
Summary
Senators dispute whether Opposition members were present for the previous evening’s budget speech, prompting the Chair to call for order.
It was extraordinary no members of the Opposition were in the House for the budget speech last night. Nobody was here.
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Some of us had seating problems yesterday. Please, let us not cast aspersions.
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It was essentially a conversation between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil about the budget. That was what we were doing.
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The Opposition benches were idle. They were empty for the budget speeches yesterday.
