Parliamentary group

So you think he's making it up to you?

Well, I don't know if he's making it up, but someone's masquerading out there as a very, very senior Liberal, but they're unknown to us in the core leadership group of the Parliamentary Party.

So you can say here today, as a senior member of the Liberal Party and of the Coalition and the front bench, that no power-sharing agreement and nothing on the table as yet in the lead-up to the 2028 election?

Exactly.

think there's good support.

Would there be a majority in your parliamentary party for voting if there was a vote tomorrow?

You're kind of asking me to kind of

project.

Here's what I can't get.

around them.

If there's a majority of people in the Fine Gael parliamentary party and yet the leadership or the leadership of your colleagues in Fianna Fáil are saying, no, hold on, hold on, hold on.

I mean, there must be a little bit of frustration with

Is that jargon, cohort? No, no, we'll leave it at that.

Within the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party, who still know me from...

So when I was in college, it was just my name.

Just name stick.

Welcome back to the Grand Hotel in Malahide, opened in 1835 by the then MP James Fagan from Donabate, from Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Party.

The Sinn Féin Parliamentary Party are here for a pre-doll think-in today.

Their President, Mary Lou MacDonald, is with us now.

Mary Lou MacDonald, you're very welcome to Morning Ireland.

So, yes, they are starting to put together the shape of Budget 2027.

That's why Fianna Fáil is in Tullamore today for its annual think-in, where the Parliamentary Party gets together and thrashes around ideas and agrees priorities.

And meanwhile, Fine Gael will be in Wexford for its think-in in the coming days as well.

Jack Chambers, the Minister for Public Expenditure, saying no decision has been made on whether to postpone the planned carbon tax increase.

You're going to hear about an alternative to domestic, public and private health care on this morning's show.

If you'd like...

But first this morning, you're being brought to Tullamore, where the Taoiseach, along with the rest of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party, are meeting for their political think-in.

The agenda will be focusing on ministerial briefs held by the party, i.e. the budget, housing, migration, justice, childcare, transport.

Well, I think Rishi Sunak's first 100 days, again, struggled to define himself against Liz Truss.

I think there were a lot of issues with the Parliamentary Party at the time, but he didn't really distance himself effectively from Liz Truss.

And I think if he had done that, maybe things would have been different.

I thought he did a good job on things afterwards that people didn't really notice because all people were thinking about was Liz Truss and what a disaster the money budget was.

Next are the organisational files, registers and minute books which record how the party was administered and how it operated.

These cover the party's secretariat, general secretaries, national organisers and so on, its central government, the national executive and its local organisation and the parliamentary party.

The records of the youth movement Ogara are also in this section as they reflect in miniature the structure of the party as a whole.

Financial records which support the party's operational functions follow.

So the basic unit of the organization was the common, contiguous usually with parishes in rural areas and with groups of streets in urban areas.

At Ard Deshina, delegates from Common and elected representatives voted to elect the party's ruling body, the National Executive and its principal committee, the Committee of 15.

Elected representatives, that is the TDs, Senators and laterally MEPs who make up the Parliamentary Party, elect the party's leader.

Common registration records demonstrate the extent of the network of common and other units of organization.