Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Politicians at the coalface deal with people who come in with payslips that they cannot make head nor tail of. We do not get a huge amount of training but normally we figure it out. Some of the systems are unnecessarily complicated. This is the problem. In other words, it is not that we cannot have a more simple or coherent system it is that we seem to love and enjoy creating all sorts of anomalies in systems. My experience of dealing with the public is that they would like it to be simpler as they could better get their heads around it if it were more streamlined and simple.