Would love to see the bar reciepts from last night to see how many were effectivly drinking on the job..No health and safety legislation applies in the Dail.

Morons

Why are they allowed to drink while working or supposedly making huge decisions about the country ?

And that bar should be taken out of there all together

I am no fan of gerry but i think he might just be right about the bar

Complete and utter idiots

This is just a complete embarrassment.

A place of work that has a bar……..only TD’s and actual bartenders could get away with this!!

They are debating about when to start debating about IBRC. Now we are all on the journal debating about them debating about when to start debating on IBRC. I love democracy

Another day, another debate. And still no sign of RESPECT for the People!

A bunch of drunk farmers and schoolteachers voting in favour of a bill that will cripple the state with more debt. If it wasn’t so depressing, it would funny.

It’s time to shut the Dail bar,many TD’s from the government side looked like they were drunk.
In any other line of work they would be sacked on the spot.

About 5 years ago…..
They have condemned the Irish people to a lifetime if austerity.
The people’s party my ass

Brian Cowen on the Dail Bar.

“…….There are a lot of anecdotes, but I just feel that the Dail Bar is the only private bar in the country that you can go into as a members’ bar. I find that we have heavy exposure, on all fronts, in terms of everybody knowing everything about us, so we should try to keep something sacrosanct. What goes on in there, in terms of craic and anecdotes, is for there, and for the members.”…..

The dail Bar is Sacrosanct.
Sacrosanct =
1: most sacred or holy : inviolable

2: treated as if holy : immune from criticism or violation

Was waiting for “how about quarter to 12″

Oh ! La ! La ! it’s good to be a politician

Freedom of Information Act figures show that between January 1 and March 31 2010, Dáil bar staff were told TDs and senators could not pay in cash for €1,837-worth of drinks.

As a result, the money was placed on the individual TDs and senators’ tabs – alongside a total of €7,171.33 in bar debt since the last general election.

According to Oireachtas officials, who have refused to reveal the identities of any of the public representatives involved, over the past three years the Dáil bar tab has risen from €3,875.94 in December 2007, to €7,171.33 by the end of March 2010.

Just 17 of the 42 TDs or senators with bar debts at the end of 2007 had paid off their tab more than three years later, with the overall drinks debt almost doubling during this period.

In one case, an unnamed public representative now owes €1,378.15, while 19 more have failed to pay off individual 2010 bar tabs ranging between €103 and €569.30 since the start of this year.

A total of 60 TDs or senators currently have debts at the Dáil bar, compared to 42 in 2007 and 45 in 2008 and 2009.

Due to Oireachtas subsidies, alcohol sold at the Dáil bar is among the cheapest in Dublin. A 2007 Leinster House audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) found that a pint of Guinness cost just €3.70 – 35% cheaper than the average cost in the capital at the time.

The C&AG has previously raised concerns over the slow rate at which TDs and senators pay off their bar debts and the lack of transparency involved.

However, in keeping with previous Freedom of Information requests on the issue, Oireachtas officials have refused to reveal the identities of the Dáil debtors.

Officials have also refused to clarify whether they impose any limit on the amount of money that can be owed by an individual, and whether there is any cut-off point for when a tab must be written off.

Last June the Irish Examiner revealed that one unnamed Oireachtas member owed more than €5,612.80 for restaurant food and Dáil bar drink.

A total of 12 other TDs or senators whose identities were kept secret had also failed to settle bar debts of between €1,000 and €3,000 at the time.

Overall, the June 2009 figures showed that 157 of the Oireachtas’s 226 TDs and Senators owed a total of €74,941 for meals consumed, ranging from €5,612.80 to just 22c.

Overall, 37 of the 226 members owed a total of €4,419, with the average debt working out at €127.56.

A lot of you are condemning the agreement. As this implies you know the details , would you please enlighten the rest of us , please?

I can’t imagine having a job where I could go have a few subsidized beers (paid for by the tax payer) then go back to work!?!

4 minutes and all they had to do was say yes to 12 o clock !”£!£”!$ sake becoming a joke now and gerry adams throwing a little joke in aswell they should be all sacked.

Oh yeah, in the midnight hour
Yeah, alright, play it for me one time now

Typical sinn fein response to any important issue. Make a joke of it and it might go away. I’ll stick with noonan please at least he can act like an accountant and won’t be throwing everything into the party fund box.

Why bother having the debate at all, the government have a huge majority, just push through whatever you want lads, stop making jokes Gerry.