On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 22 of 449 decisive votes (2 abstentions excluded). Read it as a government-or-opposition indicator rather than a measure of influence — the figure is near 100% for members supporting the government of the day and near 0% for those opposing it.
This is the point of the site: contributions keep the party held on the day, not the one held now.
| Party | Recorded as | Contributions | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| CC | Ceann Comhairle / Chair | 7,413 | 2020-03-19 – 2025-07-09 |
| IND | Independent | 2,272 | 2020-02-20 – 2025-10-08 |
Membership spells on record: IND 2016-03-10–2016-05-30 · I4C 2016-05-31–2020-01-14 · IND 2020-02-08–2024-11-08 · IND 2024-11-29–2025-10-25
Next, I call Deputy Wynne to discuss the ECCE scheme's cut-off point for disabled children who need access and inclusion model, AIM, funding for equipment to access preschool safety. I ask her not to mention anybody's name.
Yes.
I have given great leeway during this debate so far, but I am a little worried about what is happening in terms of identifying people and making allegations, albeit about an organisation. Clearly the words are getting closer and closer to identifying people and making allegations that they are not ethically correct.
I have stopped the clock for a moment.
No, it is not a debate.
Please resume your seat.
Please resume your seat. If you do not-----
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Deputy, I am asking you to resume your seat until I finish what I have to say.
Can you sit down, please? Thank you. I have given great leniency so far. It is important that there is robust discussion. I am simply cautioning you. That is what I am doing. I am cautioning all Members, including myself, in this debate in relation to this matter.
No, no. There is no-----
I am going to start the clock.
Will the Deputy resume his seat? This is not an interchange.
This is not an interchange.
It is now 10.10 a.m. I will absolutely suspend the Dáil if there is no respect shown to the Chair. I have asked for caution. I did not ask for an interplay. I have asked for caution out of respect to Members.
Out of respect, I have stopped the clock, which is a rare thing.
I am now letting the clock run and we are going on to the next speaker. I call Deputy Michael Collins.
With the greatest respect to the Rural Independent Group Members, with whom I agree on many issues, particularly their concerns regarding rural Ireland, to introduce a debate in a manner that reduces people involved in An Taisce to cranks, crackpots and serial objectors working against normal people is not acceptable to me as someone who spent 17 years working at local level and knows exactly what goes on with planning matters, and is also unacceptable because it is disingenuous and dangerous and it deflects the de…
I am here to say that it is deeply worrying that this type of discussion would proceed in this way on a date when we are actually reducing the participation of ordinary people in making submissions. I absolutely object to the word "objection", if that is not a funny way of putting it. Objections do not carry anything. They are submissions by concerned residents and citizens relating to the planning law. Over a long time now, we have proceeded to reduce the ability of concerned people to make submissions. We started…
I will finish. I rarely go over my time. We have liquid gas being put under strategic infrastructure, with no accountability. On every level, I deplore this motion, while I share Members' concerns about bánú na tuaithe. Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. Thank you for your patience.