Paul Hosford: Why is it so hard to find out who TDs hire?

If public officials are serious about transparency and believe that they've made the right decisions in their hiring, they should say it without being prompted

Money must be spent in a way that is fair and representative and democratic. It must also be spent across the board on TDs, as unpopular as that might be to say.  Picture: Maxwells

In the years of the financial crash, in 2011 or so, there developed a fascination with the scale of spending on the political system.

It wasn't that people thought that this spending had brought wreck and ruin to the Irish economy — it was a drop in a banking sector-sized ocean.