Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Very profound questions have been tabled by Deputies and put to the House on the accountability of a Government that does not command a majority in this House. The issue of parliamentary questions has been raised. The solution put forward that we would have policy debates and make policy determinations in the absence of a new Government is fundamentally flawed. We have to have a new Government because otherwise who is to respond to fundamental policy issues? This is not a debating Chamber alone; it is a Chamber of decision-making that has consequences.

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