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# dail questions

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May 2023
# dail questions
Paul Murphy's request to take Dáil questions about Jobstown protest should be facilitated, says Varadkar
The Taoiseach indicated it wouldn’t be in return for a Q&A with Niall Collins.
All time
# dail questions
'Who is NPHET ultimately accountable to?': Taoiseach questioned on governance of decision-making
‘Elected office cannot be subservient even in this crisis,’ said Labour leader Alan Kelly.
# refused
Pearse Doherty isn't allowed to ask Enda any of these questions
The Sinn Féin TD has had a number of questions about the IBRC inquiry disallowed.
# Missing documents claim
Micheál Martin asks Enda Kenny to withdraw a 'partisan slur', Taoiseach declines
A long-running row over whether documents about the bank guarantee went missing in the Department of the Taoiseach continued today.
# Political Reform
There will be no change to the 'ludicrous situation' where absent TDs means unanswered questions
TDs have complained that there is a false impression being created that politicians are not at work because they are absent from the Dáil chamber.
# dail questions
WATCH: Mattie McGrath tells Rabbitte to 'count the tits on Mrs Murphy's cow'
Dogs, cats, Angela Merkel and lots more in the Dáil yesterday…
Voices
Aaron McKenna: What are we paying for the Dáil’s pointless pantomime?
Much Dáil business is an empty stage show – but there is a way we could make it better.
# Funnies
16 of the weirdest questions ever asked in the Dáil
Including the price of tomatoes, the disposal of used condoms (sorry, we know, ew) and the larceny of a donkey.
# Treetment Required
Concern for ‘distressed’ tree at Leinster House
A Dublin South TD has asked the Government what it is doing to save the plane tree.
# Grave Situation
Michael Healy-Rae on toilets and graveyards
Michael Healy-Rae has asked the Government its views on installing toilets in graveyards in the interest of visitors.
Voices
Column: Abolish the Seanad? Here's a better idea to fix our political system
Parish-pump politics is crippling our democracy – so Simon Tuohy offers a radical new proposal to fix the system.
# Smacking
Total ban on smacking children under consideration by Government
Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald has said an outright prohibition of all corporal punishment is an option.
# Executive Pay
Chiefs of Bord Gáis, ESB and An Post still won’t say they will take pay cut
Pat Rabbitte asked the heads of the three semi-States under his remit to accept voluntary pay cap of €250,000 a month ago – they still haven’t given him an answer.