The whole thing is getting out of hand. Will the Minister respond briefly and finally?
On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 312 of 313 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CC | Ceann Comhairle / Chair | 11,306 | 2020-02-20 – 2024-11-07 |
| FF | Fianna Fáil | 72 | 2020-02-20 – 2026-10-01 |
Membership spells on record: FF 2000-06-02–2002-06-26 · 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
The whole thing is getting out of hand. Will the Minister respond briefly and finally?
We need time for the Minister. Will you make a brief contribution?
We only have 38 minutes left.
I need the Minister to be able to respond.
Deputy, to be clear, county development plans are adopted by councillors. They might be written by planners, but they are adopted by councillors.
They have if they wanted to use it.
We should all of us here expect that responsibility should rest where it statutorily lies. If councillors have responsibility, which they have, then they should not concede to unelected people which they are doing on a regular basis.
To conclude the debate, we will have Deputy Daly. The Deputy will be sharing time with Deputies Andrews and Doherty. Is that agreed? Agreed.
Thank you, Deputy.
The time is up, Deputy.
Deputy, please. The time is up. Calm yourself.
Deputy, please. I am worried about your blood pressure.
Sit down, Deputy.
Deputy, a bit of calm, members of the public expect us to come in here and have rational debate on these matters.
You put forward, as the Minister of State has, an array of statistics that are most impressive. I am sure somebody out there will go away and assess them, and draw conclusions. So thank you both. The question now is-----
Of course you are passionate. You are no more passionate-----
The Deputy is no more passionate than anybody else.
There are 159 other people here, including myself, who are pretty passionate about the same matters. I might have a record to suggest it as well.
Insofar as a vote have been called, the vote is deferred until the next occasion for a voting block which is next week. Thank you all for your spirited participation in that particular debate.
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