@Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy point is well made
She’s found a little niche in the Seanad being elected as a university rep while teaching there. She’ll retire with a massive pension off the back of it and for what.
It’s a bigger issues than her though. A large part of annoyance with career politicians who only want to be elected in Seanad or Dail is the pension. Almost no other job pays a pensions nearly as generous and even if it does you wait to 65
Add that to people in teaching or other posts kept open while they are in Dail and it’s a kleptocracy