Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Not only has the Tánaiste confirmed that it is the intention of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to deny the right of the committee to elect its own Chairman, unlike the other two special committees established since the start of the Thirty-second Dáil, she has also confirmed that the Government is imposing on the Seanad one of its four nominees. Ordinarily, when an Oireachtas committee is set up, the Seanad decides who it will appoint to it, yet Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are imposing on the Upper House one of its four nominees in the person of Senator Pádraig Ó Céidigh. The reality is that everybody knows that the function of the suspension of water charges, the so-called expert commission and the Oireachtas committee is to get Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael over the hump of water charges. It allowed the return of Deputy Enda Kenny as Taoiseach and will allow this odd coalition between the two parties to limp on endlessly.

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