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"What if you saw how the law that affects you actually gets made?"
There is something genuinely strange about standing in the visitors' gallery while TDs argue over a bill that will land on your payslip or your rent. Leinster House feels impossibly grand and surprisingly scrappy at the same time — you will overhear conversations, spot someone from the six o'clock news grabbing a coffee, and suddenly realise the people making the rules are just people. It shifts something in you. You stop feeling like politics happens to you and start feeling like it could involve you.
Laoise (31), Killarney — works in hotel management, does a spin class she genuinely hates every Thursday
I emailed our local TD on a Tuesday evening mostly expecting nothing back, and by Thursday I had a reply inviting me up for a morning in Leinster House.
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