John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Kilkenny was absolutely necessary. I read about the cost of the retreat in the Irish Independent. If it is an engagement, you circulate, mix and all of that. If politicians did it, we would be harassed by the general public for that kind of spending. Surely the work that was done could have been done without the elaborate spending that took place.