# Paul Kehoe

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# have you missed them?

On their first day back TDs had a row and Enda opened a newsroom

A long and eventful day in Leinster House.

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Sep 22nd 2015, 8:50 PM

# Analysis

Has Enda become a lame duck Taoiseach?

Analysis: Having been forced to clarify matters at the weekend, has the Taoiseach damaged his political prospects?

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Aug 12th 2015, 9:15 PM

# endless enda

When is Enda Kenny going to step down?

If Paul Kehoe is right, Enda Kenny will be in the Dáil as long as Ant n’ Dec have been alive

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Aug 5th 2015, 4:24 PM

# Grooming

Dozens of children moved around Ireland for sexual exploitation

A new bill wants people who groom children to face 14 years in jail.

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Jul 10th 2015, 1:49 PM

# Shot Down

'There's nothing to be afraid of': Peter Mathews wanted to liberate politicians today...

The independent TD proposed a referendum to give politicians freedom of conscience during votes.

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Jan 23rd 2015, 10:00 PM

# Same Again

New census questions are this week's first cut-back casualty

Budget tightening means that the 2016 census will have no public consultation beforehand (although this has sprung from measures taken last year and the year before).

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Oct 13th 2014, 6:45 AM

# Friends

They didn't want her, but the Technical Group had an 'amicable' meeting with Lucinda Creighton today

The Dáil grouping now wants more speaking rights and extra committee memberships.

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Sep 24th 2014, 5:20 PM

# Loosen Up

Chief Whip: We'll do something about the issue which most frustrates backbenchers*

*After the next election.

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Sep 13th 2014, 9:15 AM

# Still in charge

Chief whip gets more powers, but the Taoiseach is still 'in every way' the Defence Minister

Many powers over the day-to-day running of the Defence Minister have been delegated to the government chief whip Paul Kehoe following Cabinet approval today.

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Jun 24th 2014, 5:38 PM

# Banking Inquiry

Here are the TDs and Senators who are likely to sit on the banking inquiry

Who is in the running to be part of an unprecedented Oireachtas inquiry into the collapse of the Irish banking system? We’ve been finding out.

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May 2nd 2014, 8:15 AM

# 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.

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Apr 18th 2014, 7:15 AM

# Leaving on a jet plane

Here are the winners and losers from the Paddy's Day ministerial exodus

Over two-dozen ministers will be leaving our shores next month, but who did well out of the annual divvy-up?

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Feb 17th 2014, 7:00 PM

# Election 2014

Dáil's youngest TD now favourite to run for Fine Gael in European elections

Simon Harris could now be one of the party’s three candidates in Ireland South.

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Feb 13th 2014, 10:03 AM

# Election 2014

Fine Gael's European election strategy is putting off some potential Fine Gael candidates

The biggest party in the country is looking for a candidate to run in Ireland South after the surprise decision by former IFA president John Bryan not to seek the nomination.

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Feb 11th 2014, 9:30 AM

# Election 2014

Here's who could run for Fine Gael in Ireland South now John Bryan has ruled himself out

The former IFA president’s surprise decision not to seek the Fine Gael nomination leaves the party examining other options.

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Feb 8th 2014, 5:23 PM

# Banking Inquiry

'Akin to Hamlet without the Prince': Senator concerned over Anglo 'exclusion' from banking inquiry

Senators have been debating changes to standing orders that will allow for the establishment of a banking inquiry in the coming months.

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Feb 5th 2014, 3:48 PM

# HSE Service plan

'In my 21 years in Leinster House I cannot remember anything like this happening before'

Six hours of debate on the controversial HSE Service Plan have been reduced to three, prompting outrage from Fianna Fáil.

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Jan 28th 2014, 9:31 AM

# Banking Inquiry

Banking inquiry will have powers to compel - but no witnesses until after May elections

Who chairs it and who sits on it have still to be worked out, but the banking inquiry committee is unlikely to hear evidence publicly until after the local and European elections, TheJournal.ie has learned.

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Jan 23rd 2014, 7:05 AM

# Dáil Reform

TDs will be allowed to register their abstention on Dáil votes

Rather than vote Yes or No, a deputy will be able to officially abstain from a vote on a piece of legislation or a motion under changes likely to be implemented later this year.

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Jan 15th 2014, 9:00 PM

# Political Reform

'The elephant in the room': Government's Dáil reforms do little to appease opposition

It’s no surprise that the opposition doesn’t think the government has done enough Dáil reform, but TDs think that even some changes that have been introduced aren’t working.

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Jan 15th 2014, 7:30 AM

# Dáil Reform

Absent TDs and unanswered questions leave Micheál Martin criticising Dáil reforms

Changes to the question time have been criticised but the government chief whip has defended the new format following near-farcical scenes in the chamber on Thursday.

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Dec 7th 2013, 7:15 AM

# JFK

Pics: JFK assassination remembered in Dublin and Wexford

In Dublin, the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore laid a wreath at the US Embassy in Ballsbridge where the American flag was lowered to half mast.

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Nov 22nd 2013, 5:54 PM

# Election 2014

Dáil's youngest TD could run in next year's European elections

Simon Harris is now among those who is considering running in the redrawn Ireland South in next year’s elections.

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Nov 19th 2013, 6:15 AM

# Special Advisers

Want to see what staff members in the Taoiseach's department get paid?

The 17 staff members appointed by the Taoiseach have an annual salary between them of almost €1.4 million.

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Oct 25th 2013, 6:45 AM

# let them in

Fine Gael TD: RA members should be able to participate in Dáil 'as fully as possible'

Eoghan Murphy and Regina Doherty have welcomed the surprise move to give rebel Fine Gael TDs speaking rights.

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Sep 18th 2013, 2:06 PM

# Silenced

Reform Alliance unlikely to get speaking rights in the Dáil

The government has no plans to allow the expelled Fine Gael rebels, now known as the Reform Alliance, speaking rights in the Dáil.

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Sep 16th 2013, 12:15 PM

# Fine Gael

'Politics is no Cinderella game': No way back for Fine Gael rebels, Kehoe insists

Paul Kehoe has said it’s not nice to have to expel the five TDs and two Senators over the abortion vote but insisted that “politics is no kind of Cinderella game”.

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Sep 13th 2013, 6:45 AM

# Political Reform

Government chief whip will look at allowing free votes after next election

Government Chief Whip Paul Kehoe has hinted at possible changes to the strict party whip system as the coalition will today launch its plans for Dáil reform.

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Sep 12th 2013, 6:15 AM

# Rebel Rebel

Exiled Fine Gael TDs and Senators have "no plans" to form a new party - "at the moment"

Paul Bradford, the temporary spokesperson for the group of eight Fine Gael TDs and Senators, says that government should be “grown up” and allow the rebels speaking rights in the Dáil and Seanad.

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Aug 27th 2013, 8:18 AM

# speaking rights

Government rules out Fine Gael rebels’ bid to form second Dáil technical group

The government chief whip has told TheJournal.ie that the coalition has no plans to amend Dáil standing orders as some Fine Gael TDs and senators outside of the Fine Gael parliamentary party are seeking to do.

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Aug 26th 2013, 10:40 AM

# Abortion vote

Four Fine Gael rebels will lose committee memberships... and their offices

Meanwhile, Sinn Féin has said that Peadar Tóibín’s decision to vote against the party on the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill is a “serious breach of party rules”.

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Jul 2nd 2013, 10:19 PM

# JFK 50

Pics: Defence Forces due home with JFK's eternal flame

As part of the JFK 50 celebrations, the Kennedy family have allowed a flame to be taken from the US president’s grave in Arlington, the first time this has ever happened.

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Jun 20th 2013, 6:15 AM

Voices

Lisa McInerney: The loudest voices in pro-life camp discredit the civil ones

There is common ground to be found between pro-life and pro-choice people, writes Lisa McInerney, but plastic foetuses and death threats are eroding it.

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Jun 17th 2013, 7:00 AM

# need to know

The Evening Fix... now with added ways to leave your job

Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.

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May 10th 2013, 7:50 PM

# Burglary

Two men arrested after burglary and fire at Chief Whip's office

The men were also arrested in connection with a similar incident at a solicitor’s office in New Ross.

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May 10th 2013, 2:28 PM

# Dáil Reform

'Not fit for purpose?' Why the Dáil's party whip system may need reform

The whip system – where TDs must vote with their party position or risk expulsion – is the subject of some debate in political circles but immediate reform, ahead of potentially divisive abortion debate, appears unlikely.

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Apr 21st 2013, 8:00 AM