The 33rd Dáil will sit for the final time today ahead of the General Election.
Yesterday evening, Government leaders confirmed the Dáil will be dissolved this Friday.
Maybe there's some poetry to the fact this Dáil began with Donald Trump in office in the United States and ends with his re-election confirmed?
When the TDs of the 33rd Dáil met for the first time COVID-19 was a small, far away story.
There hadn't been a war in Europe for decades - and Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil had never gone into Government together.
As this current crop of TDs meets for the last time today, a motion on the genocide in Gaza is the biggest item on the agenda.
Taoiseach Simon Harris in the Dáil chamber. Image: Oireachtas TVTaoiseach Simon Harris, the third person to hold that office in this Dáil, travels to Budapest later to discuss Donald Trump's election with other EU leaders.
When he gets back tomorrow he'll dissolve this Dáil, having finally confirmed the date on RTÉ last night.
“We wanted to get the Finance Bill passed," he said. "It’s important that we underpin the Budget. We don’t want to be knocking on people’s doors until we have tax cuts actually passed into law," he said
"There is important work to be carried out in the Dáil and the Seanad today and tomorrow, it’s my intention then to seek dissolution of the Dáil by President Higgins on Friday.”
The deadline for anyone looking to register to vote in the election will likely to fall on Tuesday.
Main image: Leinster House. Picture by: Alamy.com
