# allowances - Saturday 18 February, 2017
# Ennis
# Ennis
He owed almost €6,500 to his estranged partner.
# allowances - Tuesday 22 December, 2015
# Overtime
# Overtime
Whole districts across the country have not received their unsocial hours allowances on time.
# allowances - Thursday 16 July, 2015
# Dáil Over
# Dáil Over
The Dáil has risen until 22 September. Thank God, says you…
# allowances - Friday 10 April, 2015
# Payback Time
# Payback Time
And who returned a whopping €6.89?
# allowances - Thursday 29 January, 2015
# Owning The Road
# Owning The Road
TheJournal.ie would like to state that there is nothing wrong with Ford Escorts.
# allowances - Wednesday 15 October, 2014
# TechGuide
# TechGuide
Two words: fair usage.
# allowances - Tuesday 7 October, 2014
# Allowances
# Allowances
Want to keep your 30,000 litre allowance? Irish Water will need to keep your PPS number indefinitely.
# allowances - Monday 25 August, 2014
# Haddington Road
# Haddington Road
The GRA said the withdrawal of the allowance would essentially be a pay cut for recruits.
# allowances - Tuesday 12 August, 2014
# Intolerable
# Intolerable
Mark Simmonds said he wants to focus on his family.
# allowances - Friday 24 January, 2014
# Tighten Your Belts
# Tighten Your Belts
Yesterday Minister Brendan Howlin introduced new legislation in the Dail which will keep closer checks on how TDs and Senators spend the money.
# allowances - Saturday 21 December, 2013
# Social Welfare
# Social Welfare
Figures from the Department of Social Protection revealed more than 23,000 appeals were lodged in the first ten months of this year.
# allowances - Wednesday 18 December, 2013
# Politicians' Pay
# Politicians' Pay
Dermot Looney’s decision to surrender part of his salary has worked out well for dozens of community groups in the south of the capital.
# allowances - Thursday 21 November, 2013
# Garda Payments
# Garda Payments
Gardaí will now have to wait until January to receive the payments earned in November.
# allowances - Saturday 2 November, 2013
# City Slickers
# City Slickers
House prices in Dublin are up 12.3 per cent, so should people living in the city get a helping hand?
# allowances - Wednesday 23 October, 2013
# Parliamentary Activities Allowance
# Parliamentary Activities Allowance
A new bill published yesterday will ensure that unspent allowances from TDs and Senators are repaid for the first time.
# allowances - Tuesday 22 October, 2013
# Party Leaders' Allowance
# Party Leaders' Allowance
The government has published the Oireachtas Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Amendment Bill 2013 today which will deal with the controversial party leaders’ allowance.
# allowances - Tuesday 15 October, 2013
# Budget 2014
# Budget 2014
We spoke to some readers about their hopes and fears ahead of tomorrow’s budget. Here’s what they had to say, in their own words.
# allowances - Monday 14 October, 2013
# Budget 2014
# Budget 2014
Reports over the weekend suggested that some cuts to packages for family carers could be in tomorrow’s Budget, but carers say that would be the wrong move.
# allowances - Friday 11 October, 2013
# Parliamentary Standard Allowance
# Parliamentary Standard Allowance
TDs and Senators have been told to point out that “most if not all members” will have exceeded the minimum number of attendance days to qualify for allowances. In fact, just 15 TDs and four Senators have reached the required number of days.
# allowances - Friday 26 April, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
You can’t spend money you don’t have, writes Seán Murphy, who says Jack O’Connor’s proposal to use the €1 billion promissory note savings and taxing the wealthy is not a viable solution.
# allowances - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
# Mobility Allowance
# Mobility Allowance
The government confirmed last night that it will axe the Mobility Allowance and the Motorised Transport Grant because it would be too costly to widen the schemes to ensure compliance with equality laws.
# allowances - Saturday 16 February, 2013
# Your Say
# Your Say
Most unions are returning to talks today but will the government be able to reach a deal to save €170 million through pay cuts?
# allowances - Friday 15 February, 2013
# Garda Cuts
# Garda Cuts
The GRA said plans are in place for members to “turn off the goodwill tap” from 22 February if the government refuses to budge on pay cut proposals.
# allowances - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
# Blue Flu
# Blue Flu
Last night gardaí in Cork City voted unanimously to pass a motion calling for industrial action over proposed cuts to pay and allowances.
# allowances - Saturday 2 February, 2013
# Allowances
# Allowances
The average senator received €32,695 in allowances last year – equal to nearly half of their basic salary.
# allowances - Friday 1 February, 2013
# Allowances
# Allowances
The Oireachtas has published full figures for 2012. Click through to see how much your TDs received.
# allowances - Thursday 24 January, 2013
# Cuts
# Cuts
The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors said the cuts to allowances that were put on the table today are unacceptable.
# allowances - Sunday 20 January, 2013
# Money Money Money
# Money Money Money
We’ll be holding a referendum on abolishing the Seanad at some stage in 2013. So how much does it cost us every year?
# allowances - Saturday 8 December, 2012
# Prime Numbers
# Prime Numbers
How many houses will have to pay the ‘mansion tax’? And who could find that Budget 2013 has been generous to them?
# allowances - Wednesday 5 December, 2012
# Political Allowances
# Political Allowances
There’s also an across-the-board cut for political expenses, while severance pay for office holders will be scrapped.
# allowances - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
# Leaders' Questions
# Leaders' Questions
The Taoiseach tells Pearse Doherty that cabinet ministers only receive about a tenth of the accommodation allowances that TDs do.
# allowances - Sunday 25 November, 2012
# Allowances
# Allowances
The Public Accounts Committee published a report this week on reviewing public allowances. Here’s some of its figures.
# allowances - Thursday 22 November, 2012
# Allowances
# Allowances
The Committee of Public Accounts said the system “brings discredit to the legitimate expectations of public servants for proper pay and recognition”.
# allowances - Thursday 15 November, 2012
# Allowances
# Allowances
The Garda Representative Association said a legacy has developed whereby the time discrepancy for payments can be as much as 56 days.
# allowances - Thursday 8 November, 2012
# Allowances
# Allowances
HSE representatives appearing before the Public Accounts Commitee said most allowances are paid to frontline service provision staff.
# Allowances
# Allowances
In considering the allowances, the committee will compare the Irish system of compensating medical staff with international systems.
# allowances - Thursday 25 October, 2012
# Political Funding
# Political Funding
Independent TD Catherine Murphy has pulled together figures to illustrate the resource disadvantage of non-party TDs.
# allowances - Saturday 20 October, 2012
# Need To Know
# Need To Know
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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