Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

The Minister should look at my figures. There is no financial advantage in the Dáil collapsing if the pension is reduced by 25%. If it were 50%, a number of former Ministers on the Government back benches who are quite critical of the Government - I can think of two, in particular - would have been better off were the Dáil to collapse. This will not now be the case as the reduction will be only 25% and the abolition of the long service increment will be delayed until the next Dáil.

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