Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald met with Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy amid a disruptive session in the Dáil where efforts to elect Micheal Martin as Taoiseach failed. The opposition's complaints centered on speaking time for Independent TDs supporting the Government. The meeting highlighted a push to revise standing orders, while Government leaders expressed frustration at the opposition's tactics, calling it a ‘subversion of the Irish Constitution’ and ‘farcical’. Discussions continue as party leaders prepare for a potential vote on Martin's leadership.
Opposition parties want the wording of standing orders to be revised to make it very clear that Independent TDs who support the programme for Government cannot be part of technical groups.
Mr Martin called the chaotic scenes in the Dail a 'subversion of the Irish Constitution.'
Mr Harris branded the opposition’s actions 'farcical' and 'stunt politics on speed.'
The most fundamental obligation of the Dail is to elect a taoiseach and, indeed, to elect a government,
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