The party’s rising star says she “inadvertently” sat in Dara Calleary’s voting position before moving to her seat and voting again. The revelation that Ms Chambers also cast a vote for a missing TD will create a major headache for the party leadership. She replied: “No, I haven’t.”However, Ms Chambers failed to give any mention to the vote she made “in error” on Thursday. For this I apologise.”Her constituency colleague, Mr Calleary, told Independent.ie he was not in the Chamber at the time as he was taking part in a live radio interview. “I did not and would not ask any other Deputy to vote for me in the Dail,” he said.

Source: Irish Independent October 20, 2019 20:26 UTC