Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

We also made submissions in the documents we circulated. It does not matter, however, because the important outcome will be the genuine improvements that can be made. A long way remains to be travelled in terms of real political and Dáil reform.

Even if it would not be popular in this Chamber, an initiative to address the question of politicians' pay would receive the support of the majority of people in this country. Much of the alienation the public feels about the political system arises from the perception that politicians live in a different world from those they purport to represent.

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