Brendan Ryan (Labour)

If the Government paid me €30 million, I might go away. Other people were paid less and got into a great deal of trouble.

We have been promised new ethics legislation. I was going to make a little deal with the Government to the effect that we might leave the matter to the Government parties to discuss. Those of us on this side of the House have no problem with knowing between right and wrong, but the law is needed to tell people on the other side about the difference. We should probably leave the matter of dealing with the niceties to the people over there.