Dáil debates

Thursday, 8 July 2010

11:00 am

Photo of Eamon GilmoreEamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Even by the standards of this Government, closing down the Dáil until 29 September is exceptional. We must go back to 2003 to find a later date for the resumption of the Dáil than the Government is proposing for this year. Undoubtedly, when the Government uses its majority shortly to get this proposal passed, and it will be opposed by the Labour Party, it will inevitably be reported that the Deputies are taking holidays for three months. That misses the point. This is not about holidays, but about politics. The reason the Government is doing this is that it will have three months in which it will not run the risk of being defeated in a vote in this House. It will be three months of the period of time it is serving out its notice in which it will not be challenged or questioned in the House about any of its proposals.

The Government will have three months to carry out openings, launches, events and news management in the hope-----

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