David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will end on this and we will move on. That relates to payments during the election. It does not say anything about what happens after the election and I was very careful to say that it was important that people who had not been previously elected should be remunerated on a sliding scale with regard to the votes they got. Apparently, this situation does exist in the Dáil so I am astonished as to why it is illegal in the Seanad if it is legal in the Dáil.