Government plan to push through changes to Dáil speaking rights criticised as ‘brazen’ and ‘outrageous’
Long-running dispute centres on efforts to carve out speaking time for a small group of Independents involved in Government-formation talks
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Barry Heneghan (26) entered the Dáil as one of the so-called ‘locked out’ generation
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Verona Murphy said that there is precedent for any non-party member who is not a minister or minister of State, and has agreed to support government to get speaking time
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