Paul Bradford (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That makes no financial or political sense. It certainly makes no sense from a reform perspective. I will leave it at that. If the Minister wants to call my argument precious, fair enough. I think it is a very straightforward political argument and I hope we would be mature enough to accept that in the so-called new politics which we are trying to generate, we do not have to do things as they were done heretofore. The Minister spoke about what he described as unseemly things being done previously. I think this is quite an unseemly thing to do. It is allowing parliamentary parties to keep money in respect of calculations which no longer exist.