Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Engagement with AILG and LAMA

4:00 pm

Mr. Luie McEntire:

I want to agree with Mr. O'Connell. I am slightly longer in politics. I am in it for 38 years. When I entered politics first there was no money in it. It is back to that again. What Senator Burke has said is true. I worked at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I kept the two jobs going. I cannot see now that would suffice. If I was out working with farmers and receiving representations from them I do not think that would be allowed now. I can tell Senator Conway-Walsh that she need not worry about too much money or handouts coming into councillors' pockets any more. That day is long and truly gone. There were only a few that ever got it anyway.