Miriam Lord: Welcome back to Dáil’s Got Talent in Leinster House, and this week’s live auditions in the chamber. Who will be today's breakout star?
Miriam Lord: Stephen Donnelly got his fingers badly burned this week. Nothing new in that, some might say
It was left to Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns to broach the brewing political storm over the Government’s strategy for housing migrants, as residents in a rural area of Co Clare continued their blockade of a local hotel following the unannounced arrival of a busload of asylum seekers earlier this week.She had plenty of material to exploit, including strong rumours of Cabinet discord over the handling of the issue.
Meanwhile Longford-Westmeath TD Sorca Clarke put in a competent and confident debut performance, but she was let down by her material. It was as if Sinn Féin’s wordsmiths simply dusted down one of Mary Lou’s old scripts and sent her into the chamber to read it. He went down the usual route of quoting all the allowances and payments paid by the over the last year to alleviate the burden of people struggling to keep up with soaring energy and food bills.Usually, said the Minister, Opposition parties can come into the Dáil and make all sorts of demands without ever having to know how they “play out in the real world”.
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