How about TDs that dress like they respect their position. RBB is a clown and would rather grab a headline over a dress code then go to dunnes and buy a tie.

With the state of the country, I would think they would have better things to be discussing. We should be more interested in what’s coming out of their mouths and their actions rather than how they dress. No wonder We’re in a state when their priorities are dress codes.

will there be a special ‘clothes’ allowance?

After much serious deliberation & fine Dining the #Dail Committee on Procedure & Privileges have agreed a #dresscode. What a waste of time, i have to agree with Mick Wallace – “All the guys that screwed this country were in suits”.

Boyd, Ming and Braveheart make a mockery of the Irish institution that it the dail. If they are practicing ironic satire then perhaps I am not high brow enough to recognise it but what it stinks of is disrespect to the state and to their constituents. RBB is my TD and his manner, dress code and obtuse nitpicking over every little thing shames me.

Employers set dress code. Electorate choose (employ) TD’s. In most cases the image and personalities. Not like the are going for a job interview…

I think it’s only right, how do you think it looks when the worlds media see’s clowns looking like Wallace and Barrett. I’m not a traditionalist but if were to be taken seriously abroad we should start by looking like we take things serious.

Funny how people become selectively outraged. Anyone remember when Bertie Ahern used to wear an anorak into the Dáil? Why was nobody trying to make it look like class war when people were unhappy with his attire then?

If a political leader managed to steer this country out of the mess jt is in and wore so called inappropriate clothing do u think one person would be commenting on his attire . actions speak louder than clothes , it’s a pity the tiger generation have nt copped on to this yet .

Here here , respect for the job and respect for the people they represent !

If you think its not wearing a suit that’s lowering the tone of the Dáil, you clearly never watch any of it.

Blue shirts for everyone is it?

They are politicians not school children. They should be allowed wear what they want as for the most part they do a really good job.

You should dress for the position that you hold and if that is as a teacher, nurse (in my own case) or TD you should dress appropriately. If a TD is apparently representing his constituency, then he/she should dress like he/she does indeed represent their people in the dail.

As long as it is not pyjamas.

I disagree with Boyd Barrett on a huge list of things but he was elected by the voters of his constituency to represent them in the Dail. He has already passed the job interview, he didn’t wear a suit to it, and he was elected to the Dail.

Similarly, Ming and Mick W were not elected by people who didn’t know what they’re like or what they were likely to wear. For other TDs elected by other people with other values to insist that attendance in the Dail depends on wearing clothing that matches their preferences is bizarre in the extreme.

I might agree (or not) that wearing business attire is appropriately respectful to the chamber. That’s each TDs call and each TDs decision how they will respect the House. If the electorate feels that they’re not respectful then the electorate doesn’t have to elect them again……but it did this time.

Im sorry but all these people knew what they were getting into when they ran for election, it is not a lot to ask that they dress apropriately for the postition they now hold. I have to wear a suit in my job and i knew that when i applied for it.

this is not a worthwhile issue when so much that is actually important is not being taken care of. mick Wallace and the others are a thorn in the side to the other politicians who like to look and feel important. they are doing what’s right by the people that voted them in, what they wear is not important. there is no reason why they should all look like clones they weren’t elected to be clones. at the end of the day its their actions rather than their attire that matter.

This whole thing is pathetic! Who cares what they are wearing…. We should be concentrating on their actions to try and fix our BROKEN country.

They are not walking around in speedos and flip flops….
If we are going to go down this route then what about:
* Female TD’s – surely they should have a dress code too (otherwise its sexist/unbalanced)
* If clothes are up for debate, what about other aspects of appearance? Wallace’s hair and O’Reillys beard should go!
Sure why don’t we just go the whole hog – uniforms for everyone, no makeup, tattoos, piercings or hair below the collar line….

There are too many important issues around health, employment, education and banking to deal with to waste time on this TOTAL B.S.

Poor Richard is mortified that he might have to look like an evil capitalist

Always said, “If you can’t be smart, look smart!”

They aren’t doing either.

The Gombeen man always wore a suit, he could afford one by fleecing his neighbours.

There is a list form here to Roscommon A&E of deputies who dragged “the office” through the gutter, they all wore suits and we paid for most of them. We all know what goes on so why pretend “respect” and “dignity” has anything to do it?

The Govt knows what coming down the line and they don’t want nice ordinary “men of de peeple” sitting across the chamber making them look like bigger heartless sleveens then they already are.

You all voted for CHANGE right?

From reading some of the above comments, there seems to be rationale being used that dressing well shows respect for the job and respect for the people. Charles Haughey dressed extremely well, but he didn’t have an ounce of respect for the people.

Obviously Richard Boyd Barrett dresses how he does because he has a chip on his shoulder. But in my opinion, it doesn’t show any disrespect for the office or the people. In fact, although I wouldn’t agree with most of what he says, he seems like someone who is passionate about what he believes in and is in the job for the right reasons (however, misguided he may be).

Stuff & nonsense!

Suit-wearing, collar-wearing, uniform-wearing people are no more respectful than t-shirt wearing, casual shirt wearing people are disrespectful. Be-suited people are hardly proved to be more trustworthy e.g. Bertie Ahern, Michael Lowry, Michael Neary, Charlie Haughey, Fr Michael Cleary etc etc etc – and they’re just the Irish examples.

These TDs can show their roles and this country respect, by doing the job they’re elected to do, with the mandate each TD won from their electorate.

Ming, Mick, Richard and Gerry and any of the others who don’t appear to conform to an archaic dress code in an archaic system, have been elected by people who know how they dress – they should be judged on their efficacy and their achievements for their electorate.

If it’s a choice, then I choose substance over style.

Perhaps sackcloth and ashes might be an appropriate dress code.

Respect for their electorate… yawn yawn yawn.

I’m pretty sure their electorate knew exactly how they dressed when they voted for them.

Maybe some people could think about respecting the electorate themselves and stop imparting their own opinions on to others who clearly don’t share them.

Two little ponderables to add to this debate;

1. Charvais shirts

2. Michael O’ Leary

That is all….

People in important jobs should dress in a way appropriate to their position, that’s just the way it is. It’s a national parliament for goodness sake. The only people making the biggest issue out of this are clowns like RBB.

Put Wallace and Boyd Barrett in Burkas!

Just imagine if FG and FF were focusing on the painfully slow investigation in to Anglo instead of this, but then again we all know that many very prominent people in both parties got soft loans, interest free loans, and loans that are meant to be paid back from the bank. So better to focus on the clothing line, rather than the fact that both parties are full of gangsters.

Tony you hit the nail on the head there. As for the suits what a load of s#!te. The brains behind this scheme must be so proud of himself. Can you imagine that we pay for these committees and fools to create this tripe. As Barrett says and he says a lot of tripe at times but I’ll give him this one we are disillusioned big style. The HSE won’t pay up to 75 days after they should and these fools all want to head to a tailor. Give me a break.

This is terrible. I was so proud of us electing people from outside of the establishment. It actually looked a little like a real democracy, a people’s parliament. The wearing of a Victorian lounge suit is no indicator of respect for our country or its institutions. Ray Burke and Liam Lawlor wore suits, that made them decent people I suppose?

Their casual attire represents their casual attitude towards the job. They are acting like pure muckers.

Re dress code

Adolf Hitler would be accepted into the dail

Jesus would have been debarred

Says it all….

Typical non-politics from the establishment.. No words can describe its foolishness.. Worse still is that parlimentary committees are paid to come up with this rubbish.. Address the real problems and stop kicking the can down the road with this tom foolery

Think of someone turning up to a wedding in a pair of jeans and a casual shirt. (Ok add the Mick Wallace hair too if ya want………..)

Lots of folk would be ticked off cause they would see it as an insult to the occasion or indeed to the couple.

Dressing down int he house of Parliment is just bad manners. We at least want politicians with manners and respect first……then they can start debating.

Perhaps if RBB and Mick Wallace etc had bothered to turn up properly dressed when newly elected, we wouldn’t be having to waste time on this stupid issue.

I am sure they earn enough to buy a suit for gods sake.

Every profession has a some sort of dress code, going into dail unshaven, shirt creased and hanging out might cut the mustard at local level but doesn’t inspire too much confidence in a more national sense, even third work parliaments tend to wear at least a dirty old tie, then again our standards seem to be dropping day by day.

Proper order! It’s a place of business, live with it.

Can I also suggest no flat caps, no comb overs, no beer bellys, no facial hair, no dubes, no slouching, no snoozing.
That should pretty much exclude every one of them.

Rabble! Rabble, rabble, rabble!!!! ;-)

http://youtu.be/9fEjJ4Ecy9Q

I think it’s a terrible message from the Government. Especially to young people with the diminished prospects of the current economy. “Don’t dare to be different, conform or get out. Look the part, be full of crap, it’s what’s on the outside that counts”.
I would have thought they’d have bigger fish to fry. Shameful shameful times.

Priorities, eh?

It’s just so childish. The country is in dire straits and they debate what clothes they should be wearing.

They’ll be looking for an allowance for the cost of the suits next ;-)

If they do their job it should not matter how they dress
Im not bothered about pink shirts long hair etc just get in do what you said you would do thats why people put you there

This is not about dress code. This is a protest by three individuals on the floor of the dail each day. They have forgotten that they were voted in to work for the people who voted for them. RBB seems sincere enough but is clueless as to how the dail works. Ming is delighted with the job and the salary. He is on as many committees as possible and again delighted with the expences. He will not hold clinics or attend funerals of those who may have voted for him, so he sits on a comfortable seat in the dail for 3 days per week, goes home to Roscommon saves his bit of turf and collects the kids from school. Poor old Wallace owes €47m needs to eat, so he jumps on the band wagon of national discontent, gets elected, €100 grand a year plus expences just to do a drag act 3 short days a week.

I don’t think young people would be alienated at all, many of us actually work and understand the reasons for looking neat and sharp in the work place, for example if you deal with customers. It’s about professionalism and respect. What would perhaps make sense is the way many companies tackle the issue: by having one day a week, usually a Friday on which people can depart from the norm within reason.

I don’t see any need to fuss over it. Nothing wrong with requiring members of the house to dress a certain way. I’d like something more creative but that would end up with us paying for it and we pay for enough already! It doesn’t take from the discussion of pressing and urgent matters, the lack of a longer week does that.

Now let’s get back to figuring out how to survive this mess!

It seems a full suit is essential attire when you’re telling a county you’re shutting down a hospital.

Priorities? They’re over-rated by the looks of it.
(possible sarcasm alert)

look whal all the last suit wearers did there was not one real man among them only ; RATS; . THERE IS A LOT MORE IMPORTANT THINGS GOING ON IN THIS HELL WHOLE OF A STATE THAT ALL THE LAST LOTOF SUITS GOT US INTO. who cares what they wear get on with what u are suppose to be doing like get rid of the senate; cut the number of t d .

Mick Wallace allowed into the Dail.

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Politicians SHOULD dress formally (out of respect for the position they have been given by the people), but they should not be FORCED to dress formally by their peers.

The fact is TDs are elected for their stance on issues and their abilities to represent their constituencies.They are not elected because they look good. Well dressed idiots have been destroying this country for years so clothing clearly does not make the TD.