Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

-----which is quite ironic given its record. The biggest cost in insurance premiums, at 60%, is the legal cost. If one looks at the role and the history of the Fianna Fáil Party in government and the previous Government of the Fine Gael Party and the Labour Party, none of them touched the legal profession. None of them went after the legal profession, even in the way the troika asked them to, which was through bringing down the legal costs in the country. That is probably one of the ring-fenced areas the troika did not go after and yet the ranks of both parties, particularly Fianna Fáil, are swollen with legal eagles of all sorts. I remember this being my experience on Dublin City Council in particular. The number of barristers and solicitors in that party who were also political representatives was quite astonishing.

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