On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 509 of 516 decisive votes (0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FF | Fianna Fáil | 19,180 | 2020-02-20 – 2026-09-30 |
Membership spells on record: FF 1989-06-15–1992-11-05 · FF 1992-11-25–1997-05-15 · FF 1997-06-06–2002-04-25 · FF 2002-05-17–2007-04-30 · FF 2007-05-24–2011-02-01 · FF 2011-02-25–2016-03-09 · FF 2016-03-10–2020-01-14 · FF 2020-02-08–2024-11-08 · FF 2024-11-29–present
She wants to deal with this and she will answer questions on this. The Business Committee should reconvene. The Minister is prepared to come into the House tomorrow afternoon to make a statement-----
-----and answer questions as well. I suggest that the Business Committee meet to go through the format of that and work it out. That will be as early as tomorrow. From the outset, my main aim and responsibility as Taoiseach is to maintain the separation of powers and also to maintain confidence in our judicial system-----
-----and the Legislature. It is not, Deputy Kelly, and you are wrong to suggest that.
In answer to Deputy McDonald's questions, those appointments came through-----
-----the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board in accordance with the-----
I thought the Deputy would be pleased with that.
This is a very unusual procedure.
I do not go into the relationships of people to any former officeholders or to Deputies in this House if they are appointed to a position through a recruitment process or the-----
-----Judicial Appointments Advisory Board, which this appointment went through. It was brought to Cabinet in accordance with the law and the Constitution. That is it.
I take strong exception to the Deputy's remarks. I have repeatedly answered questions in here and I have answered the Deputy too.
No impersonation of John Wayne will phase me. The Deputy keeps melodramatically suggesting that he will deal with people and that kind of thing.
I am committed to the separation of powers. I am not so sure the Deputy is.
The Deputy needs to come clean. At the beginning of this, he suggested to me that I should seek the publication of correspondence.
The Deputy implied that he knew what was in the correspondence.
So the Deputy knew.
The Deputy implied that he did.
That is an important issue. The Deputy has come in week after week to create a melodrama that is disproportionate to the issue.
It is not too late to brief party leaders on level 5-----
-----and I have no issue in talking to them, as I have consistently in the past. What I said earlier stands. I cannot stress enough that the Minister, Deputy McEntee, is anxious to come in and deal with the issues that Deputies want dealt with.
I am not responsible for the various media commentary and reports. I always admire the capacity of good hard-working journalists to secure information from various sources, which continues apace. I stated at the commencement of level 5 that the landing zone for the Government was in and around level 3, and I have been saying that consistently. If the Deputy looks at what is allowed for at level 3, he will get a fair idea of what would be permissible if we keep the numbers down and low this week. The last two days h…