Organisation: Oireachtas Committee on Procedures and Privileges

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Alan Kelly ‘acts like only one in Cabinet’

Tipperary TD Noel Coonan has hit out at constituency colleague Alan Kelly for acting like the “only person in government”.

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Stand-up assassins: Satire proves pen is mightier than the sword

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Commissioner guarantees Dáil access for TDs

Mary Lou McDonald is acting the public interest

Dáil committee on allegations - Defiant or simply delusional?

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Dáil row over ‘offensive’ recital of Lord’s Prayer

Healy-Rae: 'I am paying other people's phone bills'

Kerry South TD Michael Healy-Rae said he is "the only person in Ireland that’s paying for other people’s phone bills" as he announced today that he intends to pay back €2,600 in costs incurred by the taxpayer as a result of calls to premium rate phone lines from Leinster House.

Wed, 29 Jun, 2011

Healy-Rae 'to pay phone calls money'

Kerry South TD Michael Healy-Rae has indicated that he intends to pay back some €2,600 in costs incurred by the taxpayer as a result of calls to premium rate phone lines from Leinster House.

Wed, 29 Jun, 2011

Pressure on Healy-Rae to repay calls cost

PRESSURE mounted on independent TD Michael Healy-Rae to pay back the costs of thousands of phone calls made from inside Dáil Éireann that helped him win a TV reality show.

Wed, 29 Jun, 2011

TDs’ language to be checked

FOUL-MOUTHED TDs will be forced to mind their language under a new code of conduct.

Mon, 24 May, 2010

FF TDs support representations for prisoners

A NUMBER of Fianna Fáil TDs last night justified making political representations on behalf of prisoners.

Wed, 07 Feb, 2007

Politicians should not have prosecution immunity, says expert

POLITICIANS should not have blanket immunity from criminal prosecution, a constitutional law expert said yesterday.

Sat, 27 Sep, 2003