Government’s Dáil manoeuvre a ‘sham exercise’

THE Government’s decision to disallow routine Dáil debates and questions until next week was yesterday described as a “sham exercise” by the Labour Party.

Instead of discussing matters arising from the publication of the Moriarty Report on the former Taoiseach Charles Haughey and Nuala O’Loan’s report on collusion, the Dáil yesterday commenced its two day discussion on the Health Bill.

Chief whip of the Labour party, Emmet Stagg, described it as a “sham exercise” designed to disguise the “unusually” long Christmas break the Government had decided to take.