Article 28.4.1° of our Constitution provides that: "The Government shall be responsible to Dáil Éireann." That is why our Standing Orders provide for Leaders' Questions. It is the set-piece exchange every week where we in opposition, as Opposition leaders, get to hold the Taoiseach and the Government
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fine. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan on Leaders' Questions
Deputy, allow your colleague to have his time for Leaders' Questions
government backbenchers to ask government leaders questions with no time allocated to the opposition? That does not exist. Therefore, this is quite extraordinary and it should not be done. Will he tell me one place in the world where this happens
moving on. That is the end of Leaders' Questions and we now move to the vote. In accordance with Standing Order 35, I now call on the Chief Whip, Deputy Mary Butler, to move that the arrangements for the week's business be agreed
matter of topical public importance may be put to the Taoiseach by Other Members as defined in Standing Order 176A immediately following Leaders' Questions pursuant to Standing Order 38: Provided that the Taoiseach may nominate another member of the Government to take Other Members' Questions
went into it was enormous and it is a huge disrespect that the Government has effectively ignored that report since publication.
Listening to Leaders' Questions today, I found myself almost getting increasingly upset at the clap on the back attitude we see from Government week in, week
street and that it must continue in the time ahead.
This will be the Taoiseach’s last time taking Leaders’ Questions before he makes that journey to the United States, so I ask him to set out for the Dáil very clearly what it is he will
motion before the Dáil that puts Michael Lowry and his group in the centre of Opposition, giving them Opposition rights such as Leaders' Questions and others. It does that at a time when Taoiseach himself will reduce Taoiseach's Questions by half to only one day per week
said we need to see the community safety partnerships up and running. Two weeks ago, when responding to my colleague, Deputy Doherty, at Leaders’ Questions, the Minister, Deputy McEntee, spoke about the progress of community safety partnerships, which look at community safety from a whole-of-community perspective
Opposition, it is important to listen. We did not go ahead with the proposal that would have seen Opposition questions during Leaders' Questions eaten into. Under these proposals, the Members opposite all get the exact same amount of time for questions to leaders. That is not their problem
issue of speaking rights, my numbers may be off so correct me if they are, a Cheann Comhairle, but in a Leaders' Questions slot a speaker gets three minutes to ask the question, there are three minutes to respond, there is one minute to ask a follow
That is the truth. We see here during Leaders' Questions that the Opposition does not want any of us over here to be able to speak. There is a new tactic since the Dáil came back. It is studs up, shout them down, put up the video
Member from the Government side sat through this debate; it is actually an insult. Obviously, a few Members have come in now for Leaders' Questions. I want to run through some of the issues the Minister of State raised. Regarding the counselling notes, the Minister said earlier that
check and balance in the Oireachtas is, of course, that the Opposition holds the Government to account. Central to this are slots for Leaders Questions and Priority Questions that are the Opposition's opportunity to hold the Taoiseach and his Government to account, yet they persist in holding
approach and greater State investment in housing. We will make no apologies for that, despite the heckling yesterday of my party leader at Leaders' Questions. We are clear about why we decided not to go into government. We knew Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael would not and could
every time I speak on Leaders' Questions. Those sorts of intimidatory tactics and attempts to disrupt must be stopped
rightly stated, the AI revolution is the most profound economic shift since the industrial revolution. We heard pithy remarks and saw eyerolls during Leaders' Questions when that statement was made but let us look at the facts. In healthcare, AI is diagnosing cancer, tuberculosis, and diabetes faster
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their development. Too much of the discussion here is siloed into particular Government Departments and responsibility is being passed around. Earlier, after Leaders' Questions, I said that when everybody is responsible, nobody is, unfortunately. I would like to see that progressed.
Above all else, there are very practical
thank the Deputy. I am moving to Leaders' Questions
Leaders' Questions will resume with Deputy Cian O'Callaghan
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