From broadband and Brexit to swings and printers, TDs kept up the tradition of irritating voters with bizarre behaviour, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

A review of the recording of TDs attendance records in Leinster House will go ahead in a bid to restore “credibility” and “confidence” in the system.

The Committee on Members Interests will meet to discuss whether three Fianna Fáil TDs caught up in the Dail voting controversy should be reprimanded.

The Committee on Members Interests will get also legal advice about whether complaints about the TDs - who voted in the Dáil on behalf of colleagues - are genuine and admissible.

After a torrid week, the Fianna Fáil benches were noticeably downbeat.

Although it deserves to be treated as a serious issue, the recent voting saga in the Dáil is distracting from more important issues, writes Political Correspondent Elaine Loughlin.

One of the very first lessons in the How To Get Along In Politics Handbook (Haughey, Mandelson et al, 1978) is how to run down the clock in a television or radio studio.

Tough new sanctions for politicians and remedies for citizens wronged by them are to be slapped on TDs and senators in the autumn following the Angela Kerins judgement.

The cost of renovating Leinster House will top €17.5m, but Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl insists it is money well spent.

The Pride flag is set to fly over Leinster House for the first time after TDs, party members and staff today meet as part of a new LGBT+ support group.

Goodbye to angry and negative Sinn Féin. Hello to positive, constructive, and nice Sinn Féin.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said no trade deal between Britain and the United States which undermines the Good Friday Agreement is possible.

Nanci Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, is to address the Dáil next Wednesday.

The media has played a crucial role in advancing the cause of the Oireachtas over the past 100 years, Ceann Comhairle Sean O Fearghail has said.

The Government has suffered a symbolic blow after a motion to enshrine the right to housing in the Constitution passed in the Dáil.

The wimmin’ are gone entirely mad. Losing the run of themselves. Nothing will ever satisfy them now. 

It was like the archbishop was coming to visit, writes Daniel McConnell.

A new forum is looking into whether TDs should be curtailed in what they are allowed to say in the Dáil.

The Ceann Comhairle has asked a TD to withdraw remarks that the Dáil is a “kip,” warning that such language should not be used to describe the parliament.

Solidarity-People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy will make a formal complaint today alleging Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and four Fine Gael TDs “defamed” him during Wednesday’s divisive Dáil Jobstown row.

Allegations of phone-tapping for political reasons relate back to the early 2000s and are “not relevant to the current period” Enda kenny has told the Dáil.

Is it too much to expect that the legislators we elect to the Dáil and Seanad do what they are paid to do, ie legislate?

Acting on Seán Ó Fearghaíl’s advice would not preclude TDs from learning lessons from Donald Trump, writes Terry Prone

A cross-party delegation from the Oireachtas is to visit Ibrahim Halawa in jail in Egypt.

Former politicians owe the State €42,300 as a result of overpayments to pensions, by Seán McCárthaigh.

Former politicians owe the State €42,300 as a result of overpayments to pensions.

THERE they sat, with their black and white repeal T-shirts clearly visible under their jackets.

Six left-wing TDs are facing potential Leinster House disciplinary action after breaking strict political emblem rules by wearing pro-choice ‘Repeal’ jumpers in the Dáil chamber.

The Egyptian ambassador has declined an invitation to appear before an Oireachtas committee and discuss the ongoing detention of Irish teenager Ibrahim Halawa in a Cairo jail.

A debate on the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) Acts ended early yesterday after a day of poor Dáil attendance.

THOUGH Taoiseach Enda Kenny has won the latest chapter of Ireland’s long-running abortion debate by defeating the Fatal Foetal Abnormalities Bill in the Dáil, any feeling of satisfaction he may have derived from the outcome of that pyrrhic victory has been short-lived.

TDs are spending too much time on their phones while in the Dáil chamber, according to the Ceann Comhairle Sean Ó Feargháil.

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The four way race for the €35,000-a-year position of Dáil vice chairman ended in a stalemate yesterday despite two hours of voting in the Dáil.

A row has erupted in the Dáil over the amount of holidays TDs will take this summer.

A turf war is looming between the Dáil and the Department of Finance over proposed increased powers for TDs in the annual budgetary process.

Establishing a cross-party committee to oversee the budget is among the changes a committee on Dáil reform discussed at its first meeting.