Politics
‘Disgraceful behaviour’: Dáil suspended as rural independents turn on Green agriculture minister
Green Party minister and independent rural TDs debate on new nature restoration law ends in acrimony
Pippa Hackett, the Green Party minister, has been involved in a heated row with independent TDs which led to Dáil proceedings being suspended twice.
It came during a debate about the EU’s proposed nature restoration law.
Danny Healy-Rae, the independent Kerry TD, had questioned why Pippa Hackett, who is the Minister of State for Agriculture, was in a ministerial position given that she had been elected to the Seanad in 2020.
