-----and then having the facilitation of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Peadar Tóibín and Mattie McGrath to carry on in this charade.
TDs / Matt Carthy
Matt Carthy
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This is a test of you, a Cheann Comhairle, and so far you are failing the test.
It does not give me any pleasure to say that but you are facilitating one of the most outrageous breaches of parliamentary democracy we have seen here. It is not good enough.
It is not good enough.
It is not good enough. The two boys there got 42% of the vote but that does not give them the right to run roughshod over 100 years of precedent - every single precedent of the Oireachtas. It is not good enough.
It is not good enough. We have a cabal here of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Independents making a joke of this whole process.
We have not agreed to that.
Time is up, Micheál.