Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

They take considerable expenses from a parliament they do not attend. The Sinn Féin party is at the top end of the expenses claimed by Members. Anyone can examine the league tables because they have all been published. One finds consistently that Sinn Féin is at the top end of those claims. Interestingly, its representatives are at the top end in most constituencies when compared with constituency colleagues who, presumably, would have the same level of travel expenses and so on.

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