Babies in their prams will carry the burden of debt

On Friday Oct 26, 2012 I read the following on the front page of your newspaper: “Budget of €500k for every TD and Senator was agreed — without debate”.

Those estimates for the Dáil, due to take effect last year, brought the average cost of keeping each TD and Senator to approximately€500,000 as per person annually. It was estimated to cost €112m to run the Dáil in total.

As a result of our recent referendum we still have 60 senators, 166 TD’s and quangos, advisors, regulators etc. In a small island like ours with a population of 4.5m we should only have 60 TDs when compared to the number of MPs in the British Parliament.