World of Politics with Harry McGee

I heard several TDs, mainly from the Opposition side, complain that this has been the ‘do nothing’ Dáil — and it is true that, when the summer break was reached, there was a dearth of legislation to show for the first half of the year.

Only nine new Bills (from the Government side) made it into the Dáil between January and July and only three new Bills were actually enacted before business concluded for the summer last week.

There were extenuating circumstances behind that.

There was the huge row over speaking rights for the Lowry group which delayed the start of ‘normal’........

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