Dáil Dress Code

[MPB]

It looks like the establishment don,t like having their boat rocked and are resorting to childish rule changes regarding dress codes to bully the new TDs.

I wonder how the Ceann Comhairle is going to look when he throws TDs out of the Dail Chamber, while wearing a frock.

[ItsEvolution]

Glad to see this farce of multicoloured dress tackled at last. The Committee of Procedure and Priveleges wouldn't have wasted much time setting about restoring standards so there's no sense in pretending the Dail spent weeks discussing this subject. I know Mick Wallace has spent a lot of his own money promoting soccer in Wexford. Why doesn't he give one of his bizzare shirts to some of the team players, thus saving the cost of jerseys? Why have a dress code for football while thinking a dress code for the Dail members is awful?

Do you just stick to primary safe colors yes.

[kenneth]

If you're going for a job interview you are advised to dress formally, not because it makes you better at your job but because it shows respect for the person interviewing you. Its no great hardship.

When these guys went for their equivalant of a job interview they wore the same clothes they are wearing now. And the electorate gave them the job. So why should the government interfere with that?

[uriah]

There is no such thing as "proper" attire. The use of that phrase generally means "in conformance with my cultural prejudices".

Allowing cultural prefences to guide dress code is why one has to take seriously the pronouncements of men in a bulky dresses and wigs.

These people interviewed for a image-conscious job with very recognisable images. The people who ran with a different image would like to undermine the former's ability to continue.

I have a lot more respect for the man who wears a clown suit because he wants to than the man who wears a three-piece and tie because he has to.

If you feel upset that somebody's clothing is insufficiently deferential, please seek counseling for your self-worth issues.

Well said.

[blackrabbit]

time to cop on , they should be made to dress formally as instructed as a matter of respect for the institution and position they
hold even if half of them are not up to it. How can the country expect to be taken seriously when the dail looks like a university bar,time to grow up !

+1

[ballot stuffer]

When these guys went for their equivalant of a job interview they wore the same clothes they are wearing now. And the electorate gave them the job. So why should the government interfere with that?

Presumably they would have noticed the defacto dress code in the Dail prior to their election?

[Clanrickard]

You obviously don't work for Apple or Microsoft then. They don't do suits. I doubt if Facebook, Google, Twitter or the like do either. Do they not represent big business? These TDs are dressed no differently than they were when they were seeking election. If it's good enough for their electorate it should be good enough for you.

They do when they do business meetings. Also even if they don't have atie they don't look slovenly like Boyd Bigot, Flanagan or Wallace.

[kenneth]

Presumably they would have noticed the defacto dress code in the Dail prior to their election?

And presumably they didn't give a ************************ about it. Why would they?

[fuque]

they should be wearing balaclava's...

[kenneth]

They do when they do business meetings. Also even if they don't have atie they don't look slovenly like Boyd Bigot, Flanagan or Wallace.

"Boyd Bigot" was that all about than? Who's he bigoted towards?