{"id":927,"date":"2025-04-02T02:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/927\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T02:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:19:07","slug":"speaker-of-irelands-parliament-survives-unprecedented-confidence-vote-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/927\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker of Ireland\u2019s parliament survives unprecedented confidence vote \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening the three-hour debate, Prime Minister Miche\u00e1l Martin said Ireland couldn\u2019t afford the squabbling in the D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann chamber at a time when incoming U.S. tariffs on EU goods imperil Ireland\u2019s export-driven economy.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOur country is facing enormous threats,\u201d Martin said, referencing the tariffs expected to be announced Wednesday by U.S. President Donald Trump. \u201cWe simply do not have time to waste on cynical strategies of aggression and disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

Led by the main opposition Sinn F\u00e9in<\/a>, several parties on the left of Irish politics called for Murphy\u2019s head following last week\u2019s struggle<\/a> to agree new rules determining who gets to ask Martin questions.<\/p>\n

Angering the opposition, which normally dominates question periods, a new slot has been created for a small group of pro-government independent lawmakers led by one of the parliament\u2019s most scandal-tainted politicians, Michael Lowry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald emphasized that her party wanted Murphy to lose the speaker\u2019s post specifically because Lowry had been instrumental in getting her the job. (Murphy was among the independent lawmakers who agreed to support Martin\u2019s government, giving it a working majority.) McDonald said the speaker had an intolerable pro-Lowry bias.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThe Ceann Comhairle is not fair, is not impartial, is not independent and cannot stay,\u201d the Sinn F\u00e9in leader said of Murphy.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald emphasized that her party wanted Murphy to lose the speaker\u2019s post specifically because Lowry had been instrumental in getting her the job. | Charles McQuillan\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Murphy didn\u2019t speak in her own defense and left the speaker\u2019s chair soon after the debate on her future began. The deputy speaker, John McGuinness, took her place.<\/p>\n

To date the dispute has prevented the government from forming parliamentary committees tasked with scrutinizing, amending and advancing legislative bills. The next flash point will likely be whether Lowry or other pro-government independents are given committee chairs normally awarded to opposition lawmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening the three-hour debate, Prime Minister Miche\u00e1l Martin said Ireland couldn\u2019t afford the squabbling in the D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32,678,679,680,681,12,479,49,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-irish-politics","11":"tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","12":"tag-micheal-martin","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tariffs","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114265978478395559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}