Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Usually, we get a sense on a Wednesday of the draft Order of Business for the following week. We did not get the information this week. We received the first draft schedule including a debate on water charges on Friday. We then received an entirely different Order of Business today, and there was no consultation with the Sinn Féin Whip on that issue. In the schedule we received on Friday, there was no Leaders' Questions planned for this Thursday. We protested about that. There is now no Order of Business or oral questions tomorrow or Thursday. There is no Topical Issue debate.

I defer to the Taoiseach in case I am wrong, but the Order of Business he read out is not the one I have. I tried to keep note of what he said. He introduced No. 33, the Social Welfare Bill, which is not on the schedule of business I have for tomorrow. I have accused the Government of ignoring the Oireachtas and Dáil. It has majored on the need for political reform, but there has been no consultation with the Sinn Féin Whip, and an Order of Business that is entirely different from the schedule we were given on Friday has been produced for the next few days. Can we get an explanation for that? If there is one, I am only too happy to listen to it.

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