Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
Dail Éireann — 2020-07-30
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Bríd Smith (PBP), Dublin South-Central

The Leas-Cheann Comhairle herself said the people of Ireland are watching this. It will be watched over and over again and will be seen for the shambolic process it is, whereby a majority Government is trying to silence the Opposition. The Opposition has bent over backwards at the Dáil reform committee and Business Committee meetings to make compromises and propose amendments and compromise motions, and at every hand's turn they were rejected. That is why this will appear to the people of Ireland to be the worst outcome of the general election of 2020. They have the Blueshirts and Fianna Fáil in a dictatorship.

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Sitting date: 2020-07-30