An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2021-02-17
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Cian O'Callaghan (SD), Dublin Bay North

It is completely unacceptable that each week at the Business Committee we request time for the most important issue in the country to be discussed and scrutinised in the Dáil, which is our management of the Covid crisis, and each week that request is not facilitated by the Government. We should be sitting three days a week to do that. It is a bad look for the Government not to be allowing that level of scrutiny. This is happening in a week where the Government has turned away journalists from press conferences and sought to change the ESRI's critique of its housing policy. In the interests of proper accountability and scrutiny, the Government should respond and have a proper amount of time set aside for scrutiny and debate this week and in future weeks.

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Sitting date: 2021-02-17