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# Dáil row

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March 2023
# Dáil row
'You can't handle the answers': Tempers flare as FG and SF clash over eviction ban
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald were involved in a war of words this afternoon.
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Mar 8th 2023, 2:05 PM
Last year
2022
# Dáil row
Varadkar: 'I'm entitled to a due process and the presumption of innocence over guilt'
A senator said conversations that took place in the Dáil last week about arrests and prosecutions were ‘very stigmatising’.
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Jun 20th 2022, 7:46 PM
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# Dáil row
Noel Grealish accused of 'disgraceful racism' in Dáil after raising questions about money being sent to Nigeria
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that Irish people had ‘for centuries’ sent money back to Ireland.
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Nov 12th 2019, 3:48 PM
# the health service
'Wholly unsatisfactory': Harris pressed in Dáil over recruitment freeze in the HSE
Harris said he believed the HSE was putting “sensible” controls in place.
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May 15th 2019, 9:38 PM
# Shouting Match
Dáil descends into row over Citizens' Assembly recruitment criticism
The Citizens’ Assembly confirmed this week that seven of the 99 citizens were recruited improperly by Red C Research and Marketing.
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Feb 22nd 2018, 1:41 PM
# ding ding ding
There was an almighty shouting match in the Dáil between the Healy Raes and a Fianna Fáil TD
The angry scenes over speaking time resulted in the House being suspended for a short time.
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Feb 7th 2018, 2:16 PM
# Letter
Mary Lou keeps her promise to write a letter to Varadkar
The pair had clashed over the government’s commitment to the North.
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Sep 28th 2017, 6:36 PM
# Controversy
'New politics, my foot': Mayhem in the Dáil as TDs get heated on Máire Whelan row
The government again faced fierce criticism for its handling of the appointment this evening.
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Jun 21st 2017, 10:50 PM
# resume your seat
'You're trying to shut down discussion': Dáil suspended after Bríd Smith raises Halawa case
The Ceann Comhairle said her contribution was not relevant to the current session.
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Mar 23rd 2017, 2:22 PM
# Dáil row
The Dáil was left waiting for 39 minutes today after too few TDs turned up
The Ceann Comhairle criticised TDs while Joan Burton called on Government chief whip Regina Doherty to apologise.
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Jul 8th 2016, 1:38 PM
# not your mother
VIDEO: There was a HUGE row in the Dáil last night
“I did not come in here to do what your mother should have done and put manners on you.”
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Jul 6th 2016, 9:28 AM
# Rowdiness
Watch 'a bunch of whimpering babies' shout and roar in the Dáil
Proposals to enhance security around Leinster House have been criticised by Sinn Féin.
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Nov 12th 2015, 1:30 PM
# Rowdy
Peter Mathews was thrown out of the Dáil and given an unusual punishment earlier
The independent TD’s refusal to stop talking landed him in trouble today.
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Nov 11th 2015, 4:51 PM
# Dáil row
Watch an 'incredibly embarrassed' TD lash his former Labour colleagues
Colm Keaveney didn’t hold back in the Dáil this evening.
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Oct 14th 2015, 9:15 PM
# Dáil over
Seán Barrett got into another almighty row with a TD in the Dáil this evening
After a quiet few months, the Ceann Comhairle was back to his angry best this evening.
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Mar 31st 2015, 6:05 PM
# Homelessness
No apology for Sinn Féin TD after remarks about his homeless brother were made in the Dáil
Jonathan O’Brien clashed with his Labour counterpart in the Dáil last week.
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Jan 20th 2015, 7:00 PM
# back in the day
Check out this Dáil row between Charlie Haughey, Dick Spring and John Bruton in 1991
“Who wrote that rubbish?!”
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Aug 17th 2014, 5:15 PM
# Banking Inquiry
Video: Angry scenes as Micheál Martin repeatedly told to sit down before Dáil suspended
A row over the banking inquiry saw the Ceann Comhairle get angry at an angry Micheál Martin before the House was suspended for a brief period.
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Jun 10th 2014, 5:33 PM