Labour’s Joan Burton has demanded an apology from the chief whip this afternoon after a number of TD’s failed to show up in the Dail this morning.
Ms Burton made her announcement after storming out of the Dail earlier today, Ms Burton said: “I think the chief whip of the Government, or the assistant chief whip, should come in here and apologise to the House for what happened.”
“There are people who are here – in fairness to Fianna Fáil they were here in very significant numbers, others were here as well, I waited myself for over 20 minutes – and I do think an apology is due.”
However the Government chief whip Regina Doherty has since responded claiming it isn’t her job to make sure there’s a quorum of TDs in the Dáil.