I resent that completely.
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
I resent that completely.
I accept that but comments were made to which I feel I have to respond. I have no issue with the Minister for Education and Skills speaking to the Dáil. A marking scheme has been devised and there is an idea of grades instead of exams. No individual Deputy is going to organise how the grading system is going to work. I have been in education and I understand how complex marking schemes are, even for the leaving certificate proper as we knew it. A non-leaving certificate examination is going to be complex, difficult…
It means I am open to debate.
It is up to the Business Committee.
I kept going until 6 o'clock this morning. I invite Members to follow suit.
I do not organise the schedule or business of the House. That is a matter for the Business Committee. I am conscious, though, that there is a huge volume of legislation going through this month and I appreciate that all parties are co-operating with the passage of what is, from my memory, probably the highest volume of legislation in any one month. Obviously, it is related to Covid and trying to protect jobs for people, but if something can be facilitated, it will be. I do not know how long it will be delayed. Is i…
Is that the difference?
Is that earth shattering? Is that huge?
What I mean-----
I do.
That does not appear to be acceptable to Deputy Cullinane. Could I just make the point that we are first and foremost legislators? The legislation is in the Seanad and I take it that it is important that we get the legislation right and that enough time is given to the scrutiny of the legislation itself, particularly in what is a high-pressure situation in terms of legislation going through the House at the moment. I am just not clear whether deferring it to Monday is something that could not be accommodated, but I…
In relation to the €15 billion to €7.5 billion, which was in the recovery and resilience fund element, there were two tranches on that during the talks, which were extremely difficult talks. The first would have resulted in a reduction of €124 million for Ireland over seven years. The second cut of €2.5 billion, which makes up the rest of the €7.5 billion, would have brought it up to somewhere closer to €200 million over seven years. I went back to the President of the Council and made it clear that was not accepta…
I do not propose to get into detailed calculations now.
Of course, they always do that but I am not going to jump in now with specifics.
So do we. There were three key elements for us, the Common Agricultural Policy, which we have protected; a special Brexit reserve fund of €5 billion to be used-----
That fund is important to farming.
Farming will be one of the areas affected.
I apologise.
There are two issues. The Government will decide on that this evening. I have said from the outset that we have postponed this. The publication of a green list was articulated some time ago. In terms of the challenges of living with Covid-19 and getting the balance right, the Government will decide on the matter.
The Government will decide. In terms of testing, on other occasions Deputy Kelly will advocate adherence to the advice of NPHET, public health and so on. It is not in favour of a systemic testing regime at airports. It believes it could do more damage than good. We might have different views on the matter but ultimately Government has to decide. From a layperson's perspective it might appear obvious to test but there are all sorts of implications and complications arising from that, such as false positives, false n…