In the last Dáil, the party had hailed Mairead Farrell, the Galway West TD, as the first female chair of PAC after Brian Stanley resigned from Sinn Féin.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said her party would push for a ‘truncated’ process to finalise committees

An ongoing row over speaking rights in the Dáil has led to a lack of co-operation to establish the committees