Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I accept that Sinn Féin has had a strong view for a long time on abstentionism at Westminster. It is, however, a very curious form of abstentionism because its members have never abstained from taking salaries or expenses at Westminster, or the Saxon shilling. They take the money and run, or they do not actually go over at all but still take the money? I read that a couple of million had been pocketed by Sinn Féin over a couple of years at Westminster that Sinn Féin wants to have nothing to do with. A pure, principled form of abstention would have seen them abstain from all aspects of the Westminster Parliament, but that is the view of-----

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