Unemployed body slams TDs’ short time in Dáil

THE revelation that TDs are paid over €500 for each day the Dáil sits provoked calls yesterday from organisations representing the unemployed that politicians should spend more time there.

Opposition parties were also up in arms over the Government’s refusal to get the Dail to sit more than the average 90 days this year.

The Government voted down a Labour proposal that the Dáil shorten its three-week Easter break amid sharp exchanges with the Tánaiste, but the Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed (INOU) says this is scandalous, declaring that politicians were elected to legislate, not spend time in constituency clinics.