Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not referring to persons of no means but individuals who have significant assets. While everyone is entitled to due process, I have an issue if individuals who have assets gain from this entitlement, as it comes at the expense of hard-pressed taxpayers and law-abiding citizens. Fairness should be applied to the individual who is being represented and to ordinary people. My reference to taxpayers includes people who are unemployed and receiving the benefits of their PRSI contributions to the tax system.