Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

Yesterday, I called on the Taoiseach to cap public pensions and to ban the payment of them to people who are in employment. He indicated that he was going to tackle this issue but all he did was to add insult to injury. After yesterday's much heralded statement, the high flyers have been left with huge pensions that are being paid with the people's money. Former Taoisigh remain on public pensions of €147,000 per year and the coalition of hecklers opposite agrees with this.

See this speech in context