Appropriation Bill 2021 [Certified Money Bill]: Second Stage Seanad Éireann — 2021-12-16 ============================================================ Ossian Smyth (GP), Dún Laoghaire We are all looking forward to Senator McDowell's guerrilla action. If he wants to bring forward specific proposals on how our systems of oversight can be changed, or if he wants to ask questions about it, I would be happy to indulge him. Senator Kyne brought up the issue of councillors’ pay. When he mentioned that last year, he asked when the Moorhead report was going to be implemented. It has now been implemented. Senator Buttimer said he is not entirely happy with the pay situation for county councillors. I think he was referring to----- --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2021-12-16/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:49:59+00:00 Sitting date: 2021-12-16