Is he in, or out? Social Democrats need to decide where they stand on Eoin Hayes

Though he remains indefinitely suspended, if the Social Democrats are happy to use him in their Dáil calculations, it could be a move towards bringing him back into the fold

Suspended from the Social Democrats due to a controversy stemming from when he disposed of shares in Palantir, a US company that sold artificial intelligence tools to the Israeli Defence Forces, Mr Hayes has sat as an Independent TD in the far reaches of the Dáil since. Picture: Leon Farrell/RollingNews.ie

The Social Democrats have found themselves with a Schrodinger’s TD.

Eoin Hayes is both a Social Democrats TD, and not a Social Democrats TD. It just depends on whether or not the party is looking for a €10,000 a year committee chair position.