Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Acting Chairman. I suggest that ordinary citizens be brought into this process. Those people who give Members the moral authority to rule in this House and make decisions of that nature should be brought into the process in the way they are brought into a jury system. They could then decide what Members are worth and specify the amount they would give to Members. I neither suggest nor accept that Members should have the great and the good judging them and their wages because they are all in the loop. For example, judges are paid far too much and are in receipt of very good pensions as well.

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