Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion Dail Éireann — 2025-04-01 ============================================================ Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central Having collapsed the business of this democratically elected Parliament, Sinn Féin then did what it always does; it played the victim and blamed others for the scenes it had planned and orchestrated. Having broken every rule governing behaviour in the Dáil and making it impossible to hear anything, the party is not only disputing the Ceann Comhairle's ruling, it also disputing the detailed explanation of the Clerk of the Dáil. If the Opposition wants to be taken seriously during this debate, the first thing it should do is acknowledge that its behaviour made the Ceann Comhairle's job almost impossible. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2025-04-01/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:53:40+00:00 Sitting date: 2025-04-01