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
Deputies have time for a two-minute contribution relevant to the amendment at this point. The amendment is specifically about laying a report before the Dáil.
I ask the Deputy to speak to the amendment. It is a specific issue.
I have stopped everyone on this point. This is a very specific amendment. We are not on Second Stage.
I can give the Deputy two seconds.
I will return to the Women of Honour. How can the Taoiseach proceed with a so-called independent inquiry where the terms of reference have not been drawn up the Dáil or the women who courageously came forward and made known what they had suffered? They also pointed out that all the previous reviews and policies had utterly failed to protect women and men in the Defence Forces. The Taoiseach will now proceed with an apparently independent inquiry, which it is not, in which the women have said they will not be partic…
We are out of time.
I am faced with a situation with many questions and less than ten minutes.
We are moving on to question No. 19.
I am afraid we have run out of time so the Taoiseach has only one minute to respond to all Deputies.
That concludes questions to An Taoiseach. Various Members are indicating that they may not have gone in on the appropriate list. I have a list before me and I can only work from that. The odd time I am not perfect but the list before me was as I took the speakers today.
Deputy Richmond will share with Deputy Costello.
The Acting Chairman might clarify the position regarding my amendment. I tabled it today.
The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, might indicate if she is intends to accept that amendment. It is a request from the Mental Health Commission to give it supervision and regulatory powers in relation to community facilities, which is one of the problems here. I went straight to the Mental Health Commission website to see what it had been saying about the issue. Of course, it could not say anything about it because it does not have regulatory authority.
I thank the Minister of State, who is accepting that. I will not waste my time praising the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, but it is beyond endurance that the senior Minister is not here. I thank Sinn Féin for using its Private Members' time but I asked the Government to put it on the agenda. This report has implications for all of the CAMHS throughout the country and if we cannot see fit to discuss that, of itself, as a subject, and to look at the findings of this report and see what we are learning from it, as…
As for the last Priority Question, I call Deputy Danny Healy-Rae.
Go raibh maith agat.
The Deputy will get a chance to come back in.
Is it related to this question?
That contribution was not on the same question.
Before the Minister comes in, a number of Deputies have indicated. It is difficult for other Members who are waiting if I let everybody in all over again on a question they have not tabled. Deputy O'Connor might be very brief.