David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Expenses of €56,000. Yahweee, but where is it? I would like to know; it would be just wonderful. I could be backwards and forwards like I was a yo-yo on that amount of money. Apparently, this story is granted credibility. It is said we have these huge salaries, enormous grants and allowances but I just wonder why it is that the 3,000 civil servants who are receiving so much more than we do want to break with us. It is because we are so timid in getting money. They fear they will be held back. They are already 30% below the general population. We are 30% below as well and now we are going to be shafted by the civil servants abandoning us. I want to know, before the ship goes down, where my €56,000 in travel expenses is because I have not got it.