Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is an incredible shambles. Members had been informed on social media that the Dáil was adjourned until next Tuesday. I work with a team of 37 Deputies, and there are 160 Deputies in total. There was a clear schedule of business, including questions, statements, and a Private Member's motion. It was hours of business. We were trying to relay the information we were given in a complete vacuum. I am the whip for a party with 37 Deputies and nobody from this institution contacted me this evening. Nobody told me what was going on or what was happening. I had to rely on political correspondents on Twitter. How embarrassing is it for our democracy that political correspondents on Twitter knew more and that I had no information for the 37 Deputies I work with? I had to go on Twitter to see what was happening and what was developing. What has happened this evening is absolutely outrageous. I totally support the proposal by Deputy Alan Kelly. Our party demands a full explanation as to how the Dáil was adjourned and how our business has been so badly disrupted.

We now have proposals for business tomorrow but we do not know if we will be in the convention centre or in the Dáil. We have a meeting at 9 o'clock. I finally had to ring the Government Chief Whip and, in fairness, he gave me a draft schedule that had been put together. There was no communication whatsoever from this institution. It is absolutely shocking and I need an explanation.

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