Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will also be supporting this legislation. I support the reduction of the leader's allowance and absolutely support the vouching of moneys spent. It is wrong, and has been wrong, that the spending of public moneys is not properly vouched and that the process is not transparent. I put forward amendments to other legislation in recent years to try to achieve that but they were not accepted by Government, and I was surprised about that. I can present the Minister with the amendments and the legislation concerned if need be.

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