Complete pisstake in there some days as you know yourself.

Have emailed Sean Barrett twice and got a good reply both times. He can be well over minute telling them to shut up some days, can’t be easy.. You wouldn’t get it in primary school. Worse the last few months with Labour backbenchers roaring while opposition (particularly SF) are speaking.

What do we expect when Noonan insisted in taunting the opposition during his budget speech

Back on the 11th of Jan means 2 days in the Dail before they can head off for the weekend. Nice break in fairness.

Re the heckling – it just shows how toothless and how little revelence the Dail has in political decision making.

When you see how some Politicians behave in the Dáil, it is like looking at a rowdy crowd of supporters at a football match, who are half drunk, shouting obsenities at the opposition!
For people who were given the honour of representing their constituents, some of them should be ashamed of themselves for their behaviour.
Sometimes it happens when a Government Minister goads the opposition on a particular topic and this practise should stop, as these Ministers are only inviting shouting and heckling.
Othertimes it just happens to shout a speaker down, when the speaker is telling the Dáil something that it does not want to hear!
I think that backbenchers get frustrated because they are in the background and are kept there by the archaic rules of the Dáil and they vent their frustration at the first opportunity that they get, by heckling and by making smart remarks against a speaker and it doesn’t seem to matter to them that their behaviour is completely out of order!

When I see this kind of carry on in the Dáil, it makes me wonder at the calibre of some of the Politicians who carry on like that!

Bunch of spoilt brats every last one of them, why don’t they do something about the state of the country instead of acting like kids. They get paid well enough for it and do nothing. Next thing they’ll be showing the Telly Tubbies just to keep them quite.

That’s nearly a month hols, that’s what I am paying my tax for

So, it would be OK for them to behave as they do, as long as they wear a jacket & tie……….. Don’t think so!
We need opposition back benchers to make sure their voices are heard, sometimes they actually make valid points.
I don’t care what they wear, as long as they keep their promises and work honestly in the best interest of the people, not the banks, the bond holders and Merkosy!
Unfortunately, they’re all great in opposition, it’s when they get the power, they go quiet.
The Rich always look after each other. Can’t believe what Labour are doing to the most vulnerable people in the country, shame on them.

Can someone please explain to me why they get the holidays they do. There not in school, there is a bloody country to run. Off till the 11th Jan and they get the whole summer. What is the justification???

I couldn’t care less what they wore, as long as they worked their job well. Honesty I don’t think they do.

Live Line is an unfair comparisson too . If you had heard it today you would know the value of that programe. I would not normally be a fan of Joe Duffy’s ,but the show was so good today .

where do the think they are? Westminster?

Let’s all write in and complain about their extended holidays.

What kind of ppl would go to the bother of ringing in to complain about the dail. I know dail bit of joke but u really want to have no life to ring in …..bit like the ppl take ring live line I guess

I all for campaigning for change tim but if ppl think ringing in to complain will make any difference …..