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As Ceann Comhairle and Leas Ceann Comhairle, Seán Barrett and Michael Kitt continued to be paid salary and expenses, even when the Dáil was broken up for the election.
The government messed up in not ensuring it had a majority on the inquiry in the first place, but now its attempts to reverse this threaten to undermine the whole process of finding out what happened to the Irish banking system.
The first meeting of the special Oireachtas Committee was due to get underway tomorrow but has now been postponed indefinitely amid a row over the number of government members on the inquiry.
The Oireachtas Health Committee is seeking to change the rules that currently prevent any other Oireachtas committee from investigating matters that are already being probed by the powerful Public Accounts Committee.
PRESIDENT MICHAEL D Higgins yesterday lit the Áras Christmas tree and said his thoughts are with the homeless and the bereaved this year.
He used his speech to send a message to all those who are homeless in Ireland, especially the children and those caught in the direct provision system.
Addressing an assembled crowd at the Áras, President Higgins said: “Some people may be mourning the loss of a loved one, some people are far away from home and are probably missing their family. Others are without the security of a home and will wake up on Christmas morning in shelters, in cramped rooms or even out on the bitterly cold streets.”
He added: “We call to mind in a special way all the children in temporary shelter or in hotel rooms for whom we must care at this time.”
So, today we want to know: Will you be giving to charity this Christmas?
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