SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
-----are getting 15 minutes each to speak, while Sinn Féin, which is larger than Fine Gael, the record should show, is getting ten minutes?
Matt Carthy
Rhetoric & votes →On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 52 of 1,007 decisive votes (14 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.
Party over time
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SF | Sinn Féin | 2,327 | 2020-02-20 – 2026-09-30 |
| CC | Ceann Comhairle / Chair | 1 | 2024-02-22 – 2024-02-22 |
Membership spells on record: SF 2020-02-08–2024-11-08 · SF 2024-11-29–present
Record
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
The Ceann Comhairle has said that she intends to be fair and impartial, but her first decisions are not fair or impartial. In fact, she has facilitated the situation where the only Dáil Deputy-----
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
-----that she credited upon her election to the post, Deputy Lowry-----
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
One of her first actions is to facilitate his charade for him and other members of the Government-----
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
-----where they are essentially backing a situation where they are supporting this charade.
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
It is completely unfair and undemocratic. I must say I am really disappointed that the Ceann Comhairle is facilitating such a charade. It is completely unfair and undemocratic.
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
I am really disappointed that you, a Cheann Comhairle, are facilitating such a charade.
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
It is not acceptable at all.
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
I do not think it behoves the dignity of your office or this Dáil if we allow this charade to continue-----
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
-----as has been outlined today. It is absolutely not good enough.
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
Why is it that your provisional arrangement favours the so-called technical group, a Cheann Comhairle?
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
A Cheann Comhairle-----
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
This is one of the first times on the Order of Business-----
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
-----that I have been a part of that Deputy Mattie McGrath has not had something to say.
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
Now is his opportunity-----
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
-----to let us know why he is facilitating this charade and why the Deputy beside him is. Maybe he should get an opportunity to tell the Dáil why he is going to support an increase in carbon taxes for the next five years, thereby increasing costs for people driving to work and heating their homes and for farmers, and then pretending that he is in the Opposition-----
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
-----and then having the facilitation of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Peadar Tóibín and Mattie McGrath to carry on in this charade.
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
This is a test of you, a Cheann Comhairle, and so far you are failing the test.
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
It does not give me any pleasure to say that but you are facilitating one of the most outrageous breaches of parliamentary democracy we have seen here. It is not good enough.
SF
2025-01-22 · Dail
Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil
It is not good enough.