# sean-barrett - Thursday 16 May, 2013
China and Ireland’s friendship continues with a return visit by an Irish delegation.
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# sean-barrett - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
Business was twice suspended as Richard Boyd Barrett complained about the time provided to debate property tax changes.
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# sean-barrett - Monday 25 February, 2013
A group of Labour TDs who are no longer part of the Labour parliamentary party are hoping to secure additional rights.
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# sean-barrett - Thursday 13 December, 2012
Padraig Mac Lochlainn, who is serving a three-day suspension, was let vote once – but not a second time.
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# sean-barrett - Thursday 6 December, 2012
Luke Flanagan took issue with Seán Barrett’s newspaper interviews in which he asks for sharper dress in the Dáil.
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# sean-barrett - Thursday 29 November, 2012
A TV interview, planting a tree, “official business” and committee work in Mozambique are among the reasons for some TDs not voting on last night’s abortion bill.
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Reports suggest the property tax will cost homeowners between €200 and €400 a year – but Eamon Gilmore would not discuss the figures in the Dáil this morning.
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# sean-barrett - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, and unprecedented.
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# sean-barrett - Friday 12 October, 2012
The Ceann Comhairle says James Reilly has fulfilled his Dáil obligations to answer questions from Sinn Féin.
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# sean-barrett - Sunday 16 September, 2012
The Budget, property tax, abortion, bank debt, Luke Ming Flanagan’s t-shirts and James Reilly’s statements – some of what we can expect as the Dáil returns this week.
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# sean-barrett - Saturday 1 September, 2012
No social networking for some people working at Leinster House in addition to the installation of picture scanning software which looks for ‘inappropriate content’ usually indicated by ‘certain flesh tones’.
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# sean-barrett - Wednesday 15 August, 2012
The nine stories you need to know this morning.
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# sean-barrett - Thursday 9 August, 2012
Following a spat with the Ceann Comhairle, John Halligan said he will not be apologising and has requested his own apology for accusations he verbally abused Seán Barrett.
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# sean-barrett - Monday 6 August, 2012
The nine stories you need to know this morning.
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# sean-barrett - Thursday 19 July, 2012
The Dáil’s summer break is a week longer than it was last year, though it now sits for slightly longer each day.
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# sean-barrett - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
Business was suspended for five minutes after Micheál Martin queried why the Dáil could not debate Mick Wallace.
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# sean-barrett - Tuesday 12 June, 2012
The whips of the five main Dáil groupings agree not to table motions of censure ahead of potential committee hearings.
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The weekly meeting of the five Dáil whips will discuss a motion potentially censuring Mick Wallace over his tax affairs.
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# sean-barrett - Monday 11 June, 2012
And it gets worse for Mick: a powerful Dáil committee now believes it has the power to investigate his tax affairs…
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# sean-barrett - Saturday 9 June, 2012
According to a statement this afternoon, the Wexford TD will not be resigning over his tax affairs.
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# sean-barrett - Friday 8 June, 2012
Sean Barrett wants the Committee on Members’ Interests to consider conducting an investigation “as you may see fit”.
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# sean-barrett - Saturday 2 June, 2012
A former government minister and ceann comhairle, the Fianna Fáil stalwart died yesterday.
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# sean-barrett - Friday 25 May, 2012
If the Irish Times’ report is right, Dún Laoghaire could become a three-seater – with one of them already filled…
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# sean-barrett - Thursday 10 May, 2012
There was some choice language in the Dáil during Leaders’ Questions this morning.
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# sean-barrett - Thursday 22 March, 2012
Meanwhile, sports broadcaster Bill O’Herlihy has been cleared by the Tribunal of any improper conduct.
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# sean-barrett - Tuesday 13 March, 2012
Simon Harris has called for the tribunal into corruption in the planning process to outline when its final report will be published.
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# sean-barrett - Thursday 8 March, 2012
TDs vote to suspend Pearse Doherty after a row with the Ceann Comhairle over comments on a civil service appointment.
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# sean-barrett - Wednesday 29 February, 2012
# sean-barrett - Thursday 16 February, 2012
Business in the Dáil was held up to vote on ordering Michael McNamara to leave – even though he already had.
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# sean-barrett - Wednesday 15 February, 2012
An amendment moved by independent Senators making the ‘leaders’ allowance’ vouched has been defeated by the government.
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# sean-barrett - Friday 3 February, 2012
While the country struggles under immense financial pressure, eight cabinet ministers take expenses that can’t be audited.
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# sean-barrett - Friday 16 December, 2011
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Ceann Comhairle Seán Barrett reveals that there have been thousands of complaints over conduct in the Dáil chamber.
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# sean-barrett - Wednesday 14 September, 2011
Dáil business is held up after independent TD John Halligan refuses to leave the chamber following a vote by fellow TDs.
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# sean-barrett - Thursday 21 July, 2011
The independent senator has the support of independent representatives from both houses of the Oireachtas. He needs seven more.
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# sean-barrett - Wednesday 20 July, 2011
The Dáil votes 98 to 47 to boot out Mattie McGrath, after a dispute about which members can speak and when.
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# sean-barrett - Saturday 16 July, 2011
In your Fix for today: A cheaper route to Dublin airport?; the end of the World; a remorseful Archbishop; how the Taoiseach is spending his weekend; and why Ken Doherty has an issue with neck ties.
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Nine things to know this morning, including a row between Church and State, the wrong type of Roscommon U-turn, and a bad day for Lady Gaga…
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# sean-barrett - Wednesday 29 June, 2011
# sean-barrett - Wednesday 25 May, 2011
Ceann Comhairle Seán Barrett tells former minister Éamon Ó Cuív to leave the Dáil for showing disrespect to the chair.
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