Quiet! Any of you Dáil TDs know how to get to Sesame Street?

As I watched the budget debate on TV it struck me that we, the Irish electorate, are a penny short of the full shilling with regard to the type of TD we elect. 

The Dáil had an allmost full complement of the 166 TDs in attendance and the shouting, jeering, laughter and general buffoonery would lead one to think this was an episode of Sesame Street.

Here we had some of the highest-paid politicians in the world sitting on their well-padded posteriors acting like a first-class school group on a day trip to Disney Land. We were told, before the last election by Enda Kenny, that there would be reform with a reduction of some 20 TD’s nationally (a promise) instead we will get a reduction of 8 (maybe).