Deputy Michael Healy-Rae is sharing time with Deputy Carol Nolan.
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
Deputy Michael Healy-Rae is sharing time with Deputy Carol Nolan.
Deputy, we are talking about aviation.
This is about driving cars------
Are there any sports grants for the aviation sector?
I call Deputy Nolan. Now follow that.
The Rural Independents are very inventive in their use of the time.
We will conclude. The Minister might correspond with the two Deputies.
It is not.
The cap on the number of parliamentary questions that can be tabled by a Member to the Department of Health will be lifted as and from 10 June.
I call on the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, to address the House on this matter. I welcome the Minister. It is good to have her before us. We look forward to an interesting and stimulating debate on this substantial Estimate.
As we do not have a Fine Gael speaker, I call Deputy Ó Cathasaigh.
Deputy Nash, I do not think it is appropriate-----
Excuse me, I do not think that it is appropriate to name an individual in the House who is not here do defend himself.
He might well be able to defend himself, but he cannot defend himself here.
Before proceeding with the third session of today's discussion, the House must agree the arrangements for next week's proceedings of the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response. Those arrangements were notified in the report of the Business Committee on next week's business, which was circulated earlier today. Can we take those arrangements as read and, if so, are they agreed, so that we can allow the committee to get on with its business? Agreed.
In fairness to the Deputy's two colleagues, I think I will call them and then the Minister can answer.
There is little time left: eight seconds. We will have to ask the Minister to correspond with the Deputies in respect of their questions. We move to Sinn Féin now, which has-----
Yes.
While I was not here for the last session, I understand that the last session ended early because of lack of participation. The party groups decide how many people they send in to take up the time allocated. In an ideal scenario, Members would ask questions and get answers. If so many people ask questions that they consume all the time, there is no time left for the Minister to answer, which is unsatisfactory.
I appreciate that dilemma. The allocation-----