How much are Deputies and Ministers getting?

And so they should. It is ridiculous that there are attacks on what Deputies and Senators are getting. They should be paid appropriately.

Order, please. That matter does not arise for discussion today.

They are paid well.

No; they are not paid enough.

Surely, they are. It is being greedy. Is it not enough money for us?

At the risk of rising to Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile's heckling-----

The Leader should not rise to it.

-----his party is changing its policy on paying the average industrial wage to its members who will also see an increase.

There has been no decision on that matter.

It cannot have it both ways.

There are a lot of bloody hypocrites among its lot.

We proposed the same decrease in pay in the North.

You are spoofing.

Look at all of the money Sinn Féin takes at Westminster. Its MPs take their allowances but do not even show their faces in the place.

Senators are out of order.