leader Maxwell Burgess said yesterday.

Sen. Burgess added: "We have heard Government MPs asking the business community to have a look and see how they could embrace people who had been elected.

"But I think charity begins at home -- it has to be criminal that anyone who can serve their Country for a long period of time and only get back what they put in, plus interest determined by the Government.'' Sen. Burgess was speaking as new orders to boost pensions for ex-Government workers were placed on the Senate table. But he said that someone who had served for eight years as an MP could stand down or lose their seat -- and only get a lump sum of what they had paid over the years in contributions at the end of it, plus interest, said to be around six percent. Mr. Burgess added plans for a national pension scheme and pensions which could be transferred from job to job were well-advanced.

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