Dáil debates

Tuesday, 14 June 2022

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

 

2:50 pm

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

Sinn Féin is opposing the Order of Business because of the last-minute introduction of an amendment to the Electoral Reform Bill 2022. It is an old-fashioned stroke, to be quite frank. There is no time to debate it. The Government wants to push through a motion. What is it about? It is about Fianna Fáil being blocked in the court, following the actions of a private citizen, with regard to its €500,000 lottery. Rather than have full scrutiny of changes to the law that would facilitate that, the Government wants to barge it through. That is a stroke but to see Fine Gael and Green Party Ministers go along with it says an awful lot. I hope the Government will change tack and make provision for a full scrutiny of the change Fianna Fáil wants to bring in. If it does that, we will agree to the Order of Business.

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