By opening the three -hour debate, Prime Minister Micheál Martin said that Ireland could not afford the quarrels in the Dáil Éireann chamber at a time when the US products on the EU products put an end to the Ireland export economy.
“Our country is facing enormous threats,” said Martin, referring to the prices that should be announced Wednesday by US President Donald Trump. “We simply do not have time to lose cynical attacks of aggression and disturbance.”
Led by the main opposition Sinn Féin, several parties to the left of Irish policy called to the head of Murphy after last week’s struggle to agree on new decisive rules which can ask questions to Martin.
Angry against the opposition, which normally dominates the periods of questions, a new niche has been created for a small group of independent pro-government legislators led by one of the most scandalic politicians in Parliament, Michael Lowry.
The chief of Sinn Féin, Mary Lou McDonald, pointed out that his party wanted Murphy to lose the post of the speaker specifically because Lowry had played a decisive role to obtain the post. (Murphy was one of the independent legislators who agreed to support the government of Martin, giving it a working-class majority.) McDonald said that the speaker had an intolerable pro-showry bias.
“The Ceann Comhairle is not fair, is not impartial, is not independent and cannot remain,” said the chief of Sinn Féin about Murphy.
Murphy did not speak in his own defense and left the president of the president shortly after the start of the debate on his future. Vice-president, John McGuinness, took his place.
To date, the dispute has prevented the government from training parliamentary committees responsible for examining, modifying and advancing legislative bills. The next flash point will probably be whether Lowry or other pro-government independents receive committee chairs normally allocated to opposition legislators.
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