The Oireachtas has paid more than €14.5 million in severance, redundancy and pension lump sums to ex-TDs and senators and their staff since last year’s elections ... The monthly payments are made to TDs ...
Some might say that they just managed a few bars, but all the TDs were perfectly sober at the time ... More cheers and applause and in middle of it, some of the TDs burst into a spirited but raggedy chorus of Happy Birthday.