Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The deliberate and orchestrated use and abuse of taxpayers' money to undermine the constitutional role of elected Deputies is completely unacceptable. I request that the leader of the party in question and others come before the House to clarify how the resources to which I refer are being manipulated.

This is an important matter. Some of us have taken to the high moral ground and requested that charities which receive up to 80% of their funding from the taxpayer come before the Committee of Public Accounts in order to explain how those funds are spent, how much their CEOs are paid, etc.

Why should the Committee of Public Accounts not account to this House and to the people on how taxpayers' money is funding the operation of political parties in this State?

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