Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

-----and hiding behind the Top Level Appointments Committee, TLAC, and the courts does not wash.

Former taoisigh receive eye-watering pensions year after year, despite some of them still earning big money in the private sector. I refer to John Bruton, Brian Cowen, Bertie Ahern, Albert Reynolds and Dick Spring. All of them earn pensions of between approximately €120,000 up to approximately €150,000-----

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