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In the ensuing Dáil debate, Fianna Fáil TDs Kit Ahern [24] and Niall Andrews [25] quoted Haughey's description approvingly in supporting the Bill. However, liberal opponents of the 1979 Act quoted Haughey's words ironically and derisively in subsequent criticism, bringing a permanent change to the meaning of the phrase. [4] [26] Noël Browne ...
In the debate on the nomination of Taoiseach, Fianna Fáil leader and outgoing Taoiseach Jack Lynch, and Fine Gael leader Liam Cosgrave were both proposed. [4] The nomination of Lynch was defeated with 69 votes in favour to 73 against, while the nomination of Cosgrave was carried with 72 in favour and 70 against.
In the debate on the nomination of Taoiseach, Fianna Fáil leader and outgoing Taoiseach Éamon de Valera and former Taoiseach John A. Costello of Fine Gael were both proposed. The nomination of de Valera was defeated with 66 votes cast in favour and 78 against, while the nomination of Costello was approved by 79 to 66. [1]
Dáil Éireann (English: Assembly of Ireland), also called the Revolutionary Dáil, was the revolutionary, unicameral parliament of the Irish Republic from 1919 to 1922. [1] [2] [3] The Dáil was first formed on 21 January 1919 in Dublin by 69 Sinn Féin MPs elected in the 1918 United Kingdom general election, who had won 73 seats of the 105 seats in Ireland, with four party candidates (Arthur ...
Links to Oireachtas debates on bills: Dáil Eireann Loans and Funds Act 1924; Dáil Éireann Loans and Funds (Amendment) Act 1933; Dáil Eireann Loans and Funds (Amendment) Act 1936; Financing the First Dáil (Dáil 100 website) The Dáil Bonds Film 1919 propaganda newsreel, from the Irish Film Institute archive
On 28 April 1949, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, was received on the floor of the Dáil; he did not make a speech. [42]On 21 January 2019, a programme of events in the Mansion House, to mark the centenary of the First Dáil, included an address by President Michael D. Higgins [43] [44] and a joint sitting of the 32nd Dáil and 25th Seanad; [45] [43] however, the address was not ...
Contemporaneous record of the debate on the Treaty in Dáil Éireann. Record of the Dáil debate on the Treaty and vote on the 7 January 1922. De Valera's preferred Treaty, 'Document No.2', published on 10 January 1922. Dáil may not vote before Christmas – New York Times archive, 19 December 1921.
Brian Farrell felt that the Democratic Programme "did not represent the social and economic ideals of the first Dáil. Most of its members had not read the document in advance; the few who had seen it in draft form were reluctant enough to subscribe to it and there was a last minute redrafting ... only hours before the Dáil met."