From Seanad election latest to the neverending Dáil speaking rights row, it's your essential end-of-week politics catch-up
Your essential end-of-week politics catch-up: From Seanad election latest to the neverending Dáil speaking rights row
Questions were also raised about a lack of visibility of senior politicians in storm-hit areas, though Ministers insisted they were responding to the emergency over the weekend and throughout the week. Taoiseachwere abroad on official Government business at the start of the week – at the Auschwitz commemoration in Poland and EU meetings respectively. Mr Martin did do a series of visits to storm-hit parts of the country on Tuesday..
The Dáil reform committee was due to have an informal meeting on Friday morning as efforts continue to break the deadlock.There was a backlash over the number of women appointed to senior Cabinet roles last week – just three out of 15 Ministers.
Those who have lost out, however, include former Fianna Fáil TD Joe Flaherty and his party colleague Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee, as well as former Independent minister Katherine Zappone in the University of Dublin constituency.still raging and question marks over US support for Nato under the new Trump administration, defence and security will be top of the agenda at a meeting of European leaders next week.
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