More severe penalties for unruly TDs, urges Barrett
In an interview with the Irish Examiner, Mr Barrett also dismissed recent claims that he is biased towards Government TDs and insisted that he “bent over backwards to give everybody a fair hearing”.
In highly critical comments about Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald, he said harsher penalties were now needed following the deputy party leader’s recent controversial actions in the Dáil. Ms McDonald, using Dáil privilege, read the names of five former ministers into the Dáil record earlier this month amid allegations that they had held offshore bank accounts to evade tax.
