Ceann Comhairle: 'Parliament has to be independent of Government'
The leader of the Dáil was speaking after a week in which he surprised many, including the government, by allowing members of the Reform Alliance and former Labour parliamentary party TDs speaking time...
View ArticleBanking inquiry will have powers to compel - but no witnesses until after May...
Who chairs it and who sits on it have still to be worked out, but the banking inquiry committee is unlikely to hear evidence publicly until after the local and European elections, TheJournal.ie has...
View ArticleThis letter confirms the PAC can't release a transcript of the garda...
Maurice McCabe’s evidence about the penalty points system will not be released.
View ArticleNo ‘slam dunk’ for ex-Rehab chiefs as CPP yet to rule on compellability
Mary Lou McDonald said it would be ‘quite wrong’ to pre-judge the view of the committee.
View ArticleAttempts to kick Fianna Fáil senator off banking inquiry fall flat
A Fine Gael senator had accused Marc MacSharry of having a conflict of interest.
View ArticlePAC told they can't force Flannery and Kerins to come before it
The former Rehab Group CEOs refused to appear before the committee in April.
View ArticleMary Lou has abused her Dáil privilege
The Sinn Féin deputy leader should not have named six former politicians in the Dáil, a committee has found.
View ArticleDenis O’Brien has launched legal action against a Dáil committee
Every member of the CPP has been named in letters from the businessman’s lawyers.
View ArticleFrank Flannery says Denis O'Brien is 'not above or below the law'
“People in the Third Reich thought what’s happening to the Jews would never happen to them, but finally the knock came.”
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