Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is a huge anomaly in that regard. The foreign channel has a bad habit of breaking through across the air waves here. There is an anomaly and I urge the Minister to address that. The political parties in the Dáil must keep a set of accounts with regard to what they do with the Leader's allowance and these accounts must be audited and assessed annually. However, the same does not apply to a group which calls itself a Technical Group, operates as a party and votes as a party, but the members of which are paid as Independent Members. This is grossly unfair.

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