Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Regrettably, the Ceann Comhairle has compromised the integrity of her position and her independence by involving herself in the grubby deal that was done between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and Michael Lowry, the politician who was found by the Moriarty tribunal to be "profoundly corrupt". The reasons for that, obviously, are that the Government does not care about corruption and is quite willing to do anything in order to sustain itself in power. A hundred years of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is not enough for them. Controlling the purse strings is not enough for them. Controlling the Dáil schedule is not enough for them. Controlling all the legislation is not enough for them. They want to rig matters and undermine and gag the Opposition. They are the ones subverting democracy, and then they cover all that with utterly dishonest - knowingly dishonest - claims that "it is only eight minutes". We had the spectacle earlier of Government TDs jumping up and down like jack-in-the-boxes during 45 minutes of Taoiseach's Questions. They would do the same tomorrow except that the Government has slashed Taoiseach's Questions in half - 45 minutes gone from Government and Opposition. It is scrutiny Micheál Martin does not want. That is why the Government is so keen on this. Time is slashed off Private Members' business and the Order of Business because not only does the Government want to control everything and maintain itself in power, it also wants to gag, silence and subvert the Opposition in order that it will not be subject to scrutiny or criticism.

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