# dail-bar - Saturday 25 December, 2021
# Scoop
# Scoop
Almost €10,000 was spent in the Dáil’s two bars since September.
# dail-bar - Tuesday 31 August, 2021
# Pints
# Pints
The two bars in Leinster House have been closed for much of the pandemic.
# dail-bar - Friday 25 December, 2020
# On The House
# On The House
Figures obtained by TheJournal.ie show how much was owed by Dáil staff last month.
# dail-bar - Wednesday 25 December, 2019
# Settling Up
# Settling Up
The debt is allowed under a new credit policy for Oireachtas staff.
# dail-bar - Saturday 24 August, 2019
# Prime Numbers
# Prime Numbers
Plus the number of buildings lying empty managed by the Office of Public Works.
# dail-bar - Friday 23 August, 2019
# Pints
# Pints
Twice as much was spent in February 2019 than the same month last year.
# dail-bar - Saturday 20 July, 2019
# Dáil Bar
# Dáil Bar
New credit process brought in last year to Leinster House facilities sees tabs of more than two months automatically deducted.
# dail-bar - Monday 1 July, 2019
# Spending
# Spending
Gardaí are also investigating one case of fraud in relation to an Oireachtas salary.
# dail-bar - Monday 31 December, 2018
# Lighting Up
# Lighting Up
Over 1,700 packets were sold in the year to 15 October.
# dail-bar - Sunday 30 December, 2018
# Blackstuff
# Blackstuff
Who was it necking the shot?
# dail-bar - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
# Your Say
# Your Say
A motion calling for the closure of the Dáil bar has been passed by the Kerry Vintners’ Federation.
# dail-bar - Monday 17 December, 2018
# Time Gentlemen Please
# Time Gentlemen Please
They said the taxpayer should not be footing the bill for the subsidised alcohol prices.
# dail-bar - Tuesday 6 November, 2018
# Feeders' Questions
# Feeders' Questions
A tender to supply each of the Oireachtas’ five catering facilities was issued last week.
# dail-bar - Wednesday 18 April, 2018
# Pay Up
# Pay Up
The Taoiseach encouraged the Oireachtas to investigate how to chase up politicians who fail to pay their bills.
# dail-bar - Wednesday 31 January, 2018
# Bring Back Bod
From The Daily Edge
# Bring Back Bod
That’s some claim to fame.
# dail-bar - Tuesday 1 August, 2017
# Pay Up
# Pay Up
The unpaid tabs at the Dáil bar and restaurant amount to €5,000.
# Pay Up
# Pay Up
Almost €5,500 in unpaid Dáil tabs will be wiped after a series of efforts to recoup the amounts owed failed.
# dail-bar - Monday 31 July, 2017
# One More Pint
# One More Pint
The outstanding tabs are understood to be a “legacy issue” going back to the year 2000.
# dail-bar - Friday 23 December, 2016
# Time Please
# Time Please
Since 2015, Guinness has been the most popular drink in the Dáil bar.
# dail-bar - Sunday 18 December, 2016
# Drink Up
# Drink Up
The Dáil bar made over €11,738.14 on the first day of the 32nd Dáil in March.
# dail-bar - Monday 21 March, 2016
# Settle Up
# Settle Up
Figures released by the Houses of the Oireachtas reveal that the largest sum amounts to over €800.
# dail-bar - Tuesday 13 October, 2015
# Dáil Bar
# Dáil Bar
Eh what is on his face?
# dail-bar - Wednesday 21 January, 2015
# Drink Up
# Drink Up
The Dáil bar made €7,461.19 the day the Water Services Bill was debated.
# dail-bar - Monday 22 December, 2014
# Irish Water
# Irish Water
Earlier, proceedings were suspended twice in less than an hour – after a row over claims that senators were coming from the Dáil bar to vote on the Bill last week.
# dail-bar - Thursday 18 September, 2014
# Paying Up
# Paying Up
Leinster House authorities are taking a more proactive approach when it comes to collecting money owed.
# dail-bar - Monday 20 January, 2014
# Dáil Bar
# Dáil Bar
In a letter to Gerry Adams TD, the Oireachtas Joint sub-Committee on Administration said that the bar ‘operates on the basis of parliamentary privilege’.
# dail-bar - Thursday 26 December, 2013
# Review 2013
# Review 2013
All the best shouting, attention seeking and scandal caught on camera.
# dail-bar - Wednesday 20 November, 2013
# Oireachtas Bars
# Oireachtas Bars
“If a TD has a pint or two I don’t think that’s a problem for me and I don’t think it’s a problem for the citizens of the country either,” Labour chief whip Emmet Stagg has told TV3′s Midweek programme.
# dail-bar - Saturday 28 September, 2013
# Dáil Bar
# Dáil Bar
Seán Barrett says the facility is there to give members somewhere to go when the Dáil is not in session.
# dail-bar - Monday 23 September, 2013
# Dáil Bar
# Dáil Bar
Padraig Cribben of the Vintners Federation of Ireland told TheJournal.ie that TDs should be setting an example.
# dail-bar - Sunday 15 September, 2013
# Abortion
# Abortion
Paul Kehoe has dismissed suggestions that Fine Gael faced losing up to 25 TDs over the abortion bill and has criticised the repetition by TDs during the debate on the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill.
# dail-bar - Saturday 7 September, 2013
# Dáil Bar
# Dáil Bar
TDs and senators may have spent six figures in Leinster House bars last year, but how do their perks compare with those of their international counterparts?
# dail-bar - Friday 6 September, 2013
# News Fix
# News Fix
Everyone’s talking about events in Bailieborough and Denis O’Brien’s tax bill.
# Oireachtas Bars
# Oireachtas Bars
The amount spent on pints of lager and Guinness as well as Snack bars and Club Milks as TDs debated the landmark abortion legislation is laid bare in documents obtained and published today by TheJournal.ie.
# Oireachtas Bars
# Oireachtas Bars
The Oireachtas bars do not “come under the same regulations as public bars”, a Freedom of Information request has confirmed.
# Irony
# Irony
Terry Leyden said former boss Charlie Haughey “would be there in spirit” while Mary O’Rourke would be there in person.
# Dáil Bar
# Dáil Bar
This is the price list from the bars in Leinster House, with a pint 60 cent cheaper than it is across the road and Racing UK on the televisions.
# Oireachtas Bars
# Oireachtas Bars
If you guessed over €11,000, you were right.
