Once more into the breach but is there a resolution in sight?
Dáil chaos: Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald being asked questions by reporters during a day of unrest in the Dáil. Photograph: Alan BetsonAh, that’s why! It’s yesterday’s agenda. Except nobody got past first base yesterday. So the 174 Deputies of the 34th Dáil have to do it all again, this time with feeling.
A short time later, on the plinth of Leinster House, the leaders of the combined Opposition gave a press conference and dug in their heels over the issue. The Opposition have said the issue is so fundamentally important that it must be dealt with first. And that was why we had both sides at such loggerheads yesterday.both claimed that an agreement was reached at around 3.30pm yesterday between the Government and the Opposition but that Sinn Féin later reneged on it.Just before 11 last night, sources on the Opposition side confirmed that a meeting will be held at 8.
Because the early morning meeting is likely to run on for a while, Dáil proceedings will be put back to 10.30am or 11am.
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