Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would love to know if the mandarins who worked out this figure knew precisely how many of us will not be here in the next Dáil and will receive these termination payments. Have they doodled around and put names on the figures? I am sure the figure did not come from nowhere. Perhaps it is the percentage of people who did not make it back into the previous Dáil.

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