Kerry County Council votes to enforce dress code

Kerry County Council voted by majority to bring in a dress code for local politicians — and to push for this to be extended to the Dáil.

Fine Gael’s Pat McCarthy, former mayor of Kerry, tabled the motion calling for a dress code to be introduced for all Dáil and council members “in order that they respect the office that they hold”.

He said he was prompted to do so after watching the Oireachtas report in a hotel and seeing how taken aback tourists were at the way some Dáil members were dressed.