THE Government is pushing ahead with a plan to exclude up to 19 Opposition TDs from being members of Oireachtas committees. The move by Government Chief Whip Jack Chambers has been slammed by TDs as “crazy", “outrageous” and an “abuse” of the new coalition’s majority in the Dáil. Under the Government’s plans, sectoral committees will have seven TDs and four Senators with the coalition parties - Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Greens - nominating four TDs, Sinn Féin nominating two TDs and the remaining groups - made up of 39 TDs in total - would fill the single remaining spot for Opposition TDs on each committee. “They are abusing their majority to push through a proposal tomorrow to have 7 TDs per committee. A spokesman for Mr Chambers was unable to provide a comment.

Source: Irish Independent July 22, 2020 18:24 UTC