Jack Chambers’s star on the rise in Fianna Fáil
Minister for Children and Integration Roderic O’Gorman and Senator Pippa Hackett have both declared their candidacy to become the new Green Party leader. Photograph: Gareth Chaney & Stephen Collins/Collins’s leadership contest and the choice has now become clear: it’s Rodders vs Pippa. If that sounds like the tennis final at the Protestant Girls Friendly Society, don’t be put off: it will all get scratchy enough soon. All elections do.
As expected, candidates began to make their bids public from yesterday morning and after early morning endorsements from Senator Pauline O’Reilly and junior minister Ossian Smyth – who also offered himself as deputy leader – Hackett confirmed she was in the race on Newstalk in the afternoon. A shorter day in the Dáil today after the 15 hour days on Tuesday and Wednesday. Questions all morning until leaders’ at noon. Government legislation in the afternoon is a Bill to provide enhanced enforcement powers over childcare providers, while People Before Profit have a Private Members’ Bill in the evening which would compel the Central Bank to cap interest rates at 3 per cent. The Dáil adjourns at the civilised hour of 8.50pm.
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