By gosh, those TDs really work hard

I CERTAINLY hope your report on the amount of days that our TDs sit in the Dáil (Irish Examiner, October 6) provokes the kind of outrage it should.

It is the greatest display of irony and brass neck for a Government to seek to limit the holidays of Irish teachers when they themselves will enjoy almost 25 weeks off in the next Dáil term.

I write also to pre-empt the hoary old "constituency work" defence that TDs inevitably fall back on. Last spring I contacted all the Fianna Fáil deputies in my constituency, asking for their position on the then raging third-level fees debate.