Do we have the Minister here? I beg your pardon, we will not do it that way now. I see the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, is here. Is he taking the questions?
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
Do we have the Minister here? I beg your pardon, we will not do it that way now. I see the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, is here. Is he taking the questions?
I am not questioning the Minister of State, at all. I am only checking.
We are here now and the Minister of State is here. We will go ahead. The Deputy has made his point.
No, we are going to move on. The Deputy has made his point and the Minister of State takes his point.
And you have made your point. The first question is in your name and we will proceed.
Deputy, I am not arguing with you. You have made your point. I am asking you to move on in the interest of all.
I thank the Deputy. We are way over time and she will get a chance to come back in.
I thank the Minister of State. He will get a chance to come back in.
There are timelines here. I ask all Deputies to comply with them, because otherwise it eats into the time of the other Deputies.
Tá an chéad ceist eile ceangalta le Ceist Uimh. 15. Tá an Teachta Dála do Ceist Uimh. 15 anseo, an Teachta Pádraig O'Sullivan.
There are just two minutes left. We are working off two different clocks and several Deputies are not present for their questions. We will move to Question No. 17. We will have time for Deputy Durkan to put his question and get a reply.
As always, impím oraibh cloí leis na srianta ama, más é bhur dtoil é.
I thank the Minister but we are over the allocated time.
I thank the Deputy and the Minister. We are over time.
I ask for Deputies' co-operation to continue with Questions on Promised Legislation.
With the co-operation of Members, I will allow Deputies Devlin and Wynne in, with one reply from the Minister.
The Minister has provided a script with unusual pagination; it has pages 1, 3, 7 and 5. We move to Sinn Féin and Deputy Carthy.
I thank the Deputy. I am not sure that was relevant to the Bill but it was interesting.
There are not many speakers competing so we strained the relevance of the Bill.
Yes, slightly. There is nobody else here so I call the Minister.