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10 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Just before he deleted it… Taoiseach says he had a phone call with @JoeBiden - making him one of the first (if not THE first?) world leaders to speak directly with the President-elect?
@JoeBiden I understand a phone call is still being arranged with Martin and Biden, but hasn't happened yet, and the tweet was posted in error
Discussion between Martin and Biden is expected to happen this evening
ℹ️ the Taoiseach has just abruptly stepped out of the Dáil chamber at the CCD to take a phone call…

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12 Nov
Three different complaints from SF in the last few hours to the Govt's proposed appointment of Geraldine Feeney, ex-FF senator, to the board of public standards watchdog SIPO. Job must go to a former office holder but Feeney more recently worked as a lobbyist for NAGP - yes, them
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Currently due for ratification in Seanad next Tuesday and in Dáil a few days later
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12 Nov
Leo Varadkar tells Dáil he supports the intention of campaigners who want to change citizenship law so that children of immigrants ("Ireland's DREAMers", per Alan Kelly) can be granted citizenship - says it would be wrong to deport them to a country they have never called home
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11 Nov
Leaders' Questions: Mary Lou McDonald with an aggregate complaint about the cost of housing and the need to stop rent increases. "When is it that we will finally see your government's affordable housing plan?" Says Budget 2021 housing plan was disappointing
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10 Nov
Paschal Donohoe channeling Abraham Lincoln: "Sinn Féin do not appeal to the better angels of our nature… they seek to arouse the darker spirits to make their case… a deeply cynical politics they have practiced for too long"
Eoin Ó Broin says the passing of the IMO deal to "a personal friend and political supporter" comes in contrast to SF's unsuccessful attempts to have the Govt formally publish all its interactions with the NAGP
Róisín Shortall says Leo Varadkar "concocted a false narrative, a cock-and-bull story which clearly misrepresented the truth", and that this is a greater error than the original leak
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10 Nov
Micheál Martin warns the Dáil about taking messages between third parties at face value … then goes studs-up on Sinn Féin … then says he is happy to propose a motion in Varadkar as head of govt implementing "an urgent and progressive programme" to tackle pandemic and more
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10 Nov
What a time to be alive: the Dáil is now meeting at Leinster House with the sole intention of leaving Leinster House and going down to the CCD. Rows afoot.
SF also raising issue with the fact that the Govt's motion of confidence in Leo Varadkar trumps the previous SF plan, but came at such short notice that SF has been debarred from using its time for anything else
Deputy chief whip Brendan Griffin says SF had enough time to submit alternative business but didn't do so; he also argues that Varadkar could not legitimately take Question Time tonight as scheduled if there was a motion of confidence hanging over him
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