An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2025-02-05
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

We are objecting to the Order of Business. The Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and so-called Independents gravy train has arrived, in the form of the Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025, to give more jobs, allowances and Ministries to spread out the spoils of an election. It is really blatant and outrageous and the Government is not even proposing that there would be a debate on it. This is not a particularly good sign of where this Government is heading. It tried strokes last week to steal Opposition time and now it is going to loot the public purse with new allowances and new Ministries which quite possibly are in breach of the Constitution.

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Sitting date: 2025-02-05