There's calls for a stronger agency to be set up to deal with corruption.
The comments from the Social Democrats party, come in the wake of an RTE documentary which investigated the business and property interests of all local and national politicians.
A Fianna Fail Councillor has resigned from the party following last night's programme, in which he was filmed asking for an investment in his company in return for help with planning in Co. Sligo.
Councillor Joe Queenan told an undercover reporter, posing for a fictitious wind farm developer, that he would act as a go-between the firm and Sligo County Council.
The TV report also showed former Fine Gael Councillor Hugh McElvaney of Monaghan, and Independent Donegal councillor John O'Donnell requesting money in return for help in getting planning permission for wind farms.
The Social Democrats say the state bodies that are tasked with rooting out corruption are too fragmented.
Social Democrat TD Catherine Murphy, wants an amalgamation of agencies like the Standards in Public Office Commission and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.
Here, meanwhile, one Clare Councillor has issued a statement in response to last night's program.
Former Mayor of Ennis, Fine Gael Councillor Johnny Flynn, was found to have not registered his investment in a a retirement complex at Castletroy in Co Limerick.
Councillor Flynn said he made the investment ten years ago to provide for his children’s future education, but that this money was subsequently lost and that the property rights are now controlled by NAMA.
He says that he believes the investment in the scheme held no connection with his elected position, and that he has since submitted a revised Declaration of Interests.
