Deputies, please.
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
Deputies, please.
Please do not shout down the Minister.
I am sorry, Minister.
Can we have a little silence and show a little respect for each other? Let us hear the Minister out.
The Minister's time is up.
Deputy, please.
Minister, please. This sort of the behaviour is unseemly. Can we please conduct ourselves with a little bit of order? I call Deputy Bacik.
Please.
Can we go back to Deputy Shanahan?
Please.
Allow the Minister to respond.
Before we proceed, I wish to point out that if the Members first up, that is, the leaders of the groups, take more than the allocated one minute per person, they are taking time from the people at the end of the list. I ask everyone, please, to adhere to the one-minute allowance. I call Deputy Doherty.
Time is up, Minister.
I thank the Minister. We have to finish.
I call Deputy Bacik.
Time is up, please.
I thank the Minister. Time is up.
We are out of time but we have two remaining Deputies present. Deputy Kerrane has 30 seconds.
I thank all Members. I am struck by how language changes. If Doris Day were listening to this, her concept of GALs would be quite different from what we have been hearing today.
The Select Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has completed its consideration of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2022 and has made amendments thereto.