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10/07/2008
Dáil Gives Itself 11-Week Hoilday
The Dáil today voted itself an 11-week summer holiday - despite rowdy scenes in the chamber.
The economic crisis, the growing inflation rate and today's on-going Dublin Airport chaos are all to take a back seat as all parliamentary business is being adjourned this afternoon - until September 24 - except for Oireachtas Committees, which will continue to sit at either side of its August break.
Last month the Labour party tabled a motion calling on the Dáil to continue until the end of July and to return in early September, but this motion was rejected.
Spaeaking in the Daíl on Thursday, Richard Bruton This is not a time to be adjourning the House.
"Clearly this Government is running for cover and they remind me of a cork bobbing helplessly on the ocean," he said.
Labour leader Eamon Gilmore compounded the Fianna Gael TD's words and said: "This Government is lazy and incompetent and is running for the bunker."
Citing the economic crisis and delays caused by radar malfunctions at Dublin Airport, he added: "The proposal to close down the Dáil in the circumstances that the country finds itself in, is simply unacceptable."
However, Tánaiste Mary Coughlan (pictured) said the Government will continue to run the country and to hold Cabinet meetings in the weeks ahead.
"The Government will continue to govern," she said.
(DW)
The economic crisis, the growing inflation rate and today's on-going Dublin Airport chaos are all to take a back seat as all parliamentary business is being adjourned this afternoon - until September 24 - except for Oireachtas Committees, which will continue to sit at either side of its August break.
Last month the Labour party tabled a motion calling on the Dáil to continue until the end of July and to return in early September, but this motion was rejected.
Spaeaking in the Daíl on Thursday, Richard Bruton This is not a time to be adjourning the House.
"Clearly this Government is running for cover and they remind me of a cork bobbing helplessly on the ocean," he said.
Labour leader Eamon Gilmore compounded the Fianna Gael TD's words and said: "This Government is lazy and incompetent and is running for the bunker."
Citing the economic crisis and delays caused by radar malfunctions at Dublin Airport, he added: "The proposal to close down the Dáil in the circumstances that the country finds itself in, is simply unacceptable."
However, Tánaiste Mary Coughlan (pictured) said the Government will continue to run the country and to hold Cabinet meetings in the weeks ahead.
"The Government will continue to govern," she said.
(DW)
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