Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I can do better than that. I can tell Sinn Féin what the Government has already done. The very first decision the Government took was to cut the pay of politicians. We cut the pay of the Taoiseach, of every Minister in the Government and of TDs. What TDs and Senators are paid in this Dáil is considerably less than what they had been paid in the previous Dáil. We also cut the payments which attach to ministerial transport, for example, which are down by 65%. We also cut, or at least attempted to cut, the level of expenses that were paid to TDs. Mind you, when I looked at the league table of the expenses claimed by Members of the House, I noticed that the expenses claimed by members of Sinn Féin are at the top end of the league table, so Deputy-----

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