David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

As may be happening again today. We are told that there are investigative journalists. I would like to have someone follow, not the money trail but the promotion trail, because it is amazing the way those people who were shy little violets in Seanad Éireann have blossomed out into bloody rhododendrons now and they are all over the place denouncing the House they were damn glad to be in at the beginning. Let us get someone to have a look at the successful careers of those who pulled up the ladder after them in the traditional style of the Irish peasant and, to use Senator MacSharry’s phrase, urinated on all the people who tried to climb up after them.