Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I know the party has that appendix, like some of the other parties. It is amazing that, unlike the human appendix, most of the good in this Parliament seems to lie in the appendix to each traditional party.

The logic of this legislation is that if 29 of those Labour Parliamentary Party members decided to lose the Whip, their funding, which is approximately €1.4 million, would be left to two people in the party. That is not logical. If the same happened in Fine Gael, it would have approximately €2.3 million to spread between four or five individuals.

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