FF TDs absent from meeting about Dáil’s mid-term break

Dáil will sit this week after Micheál Martin forces vote on mid-term break

Assistant whip John Lahart was not present for the meeting where the break was discussed Pic: www.johnlahart.com

Fianna Fáil TDs missed the crucial cross-party meeting on the Dáil’s controversial mid-term break.

The party leader, Micheál Martin, later caused uproar in the Dáil chamber when he overturned the decision to take this week off by forcing a vote on the matter. The result is that the Dáil will now sit this Wednesday and Thursday.

Martin was accused of undermining the Dáil business committee, which had agreed to the mid-term break to ...