Dáil Dress Code

[Outlander]

Smarten up or get out, TDs told - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie

Last night, the Dail's internal disciplinary watchdog approved the clampdown on scruffy members with new set of fashion rules for TDs in the chamber.

TDs will have to be dressed in business attire, wearing a suit or jacket and trousers with a long sleeve shirt.
But TDs won't have to wear a tie. Female TDs will also be subject to the business attire dress code.

Don't they have better things to do with their time?

Extracts from Article 15


　

10. Each House shall make its own rules and standing orders, with power to attach penalties for their infringement, and shall have power to ensure freedom of debate, to protect its official documents and the private papers of its members, and to protect itself and its members against any person or persons interfering with, molesting or attempting to corrupt its members in the exercise of their duties.
11. 1° All questions in each House shall, save as otherwise provided by this Constitution, be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting other than the Chairman or presiding member.
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13. The members of each House of the Oireachtas shall, except in case of treason as defined in this Constitution,
felony or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest in going to and returning from, and while within the precincts of, either House, and shall not, in respect of any utterance in either House, be amenable to any court or any authority other than the House itself.

So what happens when a significant number of the fancy dress party get elected on a protest vote, or one of the members goes public with his/her cross-dressing fetish?

[kimari]

they should all dress as clowns

[Sync]

Fetishs aren't a reason not to dress the same way most other professionals do. If there's a transexual then obviously you discuss that as the issue arises the way you would in any organisation and work out a solution that's sensitive to their needs.

If enough of the fancy dress party get elected then they can vote to reverse the motion. Otherwise you comply with the rules of the organisation you've chosen to join.

I'm for this. These are highly paid professionals, who deal with their customers on a daily basis. They should dress accordingly. If one of my staff showed up in the office the way some of these guys have in the past, they'd have a short trip to HR to discuss how far they see themselves progressing.

[greengoose2]

Fetishs aren't a reason not to dress the same way most other professionals do. If there's a transexual or someone else who views it as a huge issue then obviously you discuss that as the issue arises the way you would in any organisation and work out a solution that's sensitive to their needs.

If enough of the fancy dress party get elected then they can vote to reverse the motion. Otherwise you comply with the rules of the organisation you've chosen to join.

I'm for this. These are highly paid professionals, they should dress accordingly.

I have a problem with your last phrase! These clowns are not professional in their workings, they only seem that way. They, along with the rest of the Irish political establishment, are gravy train slobs, looking entirely to their own interests. When this country won its freedom there were those who made the ultimate sacrifice, their lives. They could have saved themselves the bother had they known the results of that sacrifice.

[simeongrimes]

Their employers are us and the likes of Mick Wallace and Ming dress the same way as they did when they were running. An employer would or should be more concerned about the many expensive but empty suits who make no real contribution.

[Furze]

The Supreme Court would throw out these nonsensical rules or whatever sanctions that may be imposed as a result.

Whatever Committee considered/discussed this matter should have their pay docked for time spent and given to Vin De Paul.

[Victor Meldrew]

There's a letter in today's Times asking why we don't up the representation threshold to 30,000 to 40,000, which would allow for 115 TDs.

Still too many, but that, folks, is the only meaningful reform I will be interested in.

[Aristodemus]

Scruffy bastards. How hard is it to wear a shirt and tie? If they were up before the beak they'd be wearing one.

[Mister men]

I could'nt care less how someone dresses once they are doing their job.

[toconn]

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 !