First, I call the Government Chief Whip to move the proposal for the remainder of the business today. Is there a particular reason the Dáil is adjourning until 2 p.m. tomorrow? Obviously, the Cabinet has to meet and I wish it the best of luck in the challenges it faces, but surely the Dáil business can continue without the Cabinet to supervise us?
We are in the middle of a massive fodder and planting of crops crisis which could lead to a huge food shortage later on in the year. This business should have been done last week and now we are not sitting tomorrow until 2 p.m. People at home watching this at home will be aghast seeing the self-congratulatory carry-on over there and then the Dáil coming back tomorrow at 2 p.m.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 178 words from 4 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Deputies Cormac Devlin and Hildegarde Naughton; Níl, Deputies Mattie McGrath and Michael Healy-Rae.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Question put: "That the proposed arrangements be agreed to." | Carried | 87–53 |
| Question put: | Carried | 88–69 |
| Question put: | Carried | 87–68 |
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