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Almost €10,000 was spent in the Dáil’s two bars since September.
The two bars in Leinster House have been closed for much of the pandemic.
Figures obtained by TheJournal.ie show how much was owed by Dáil staff last month.
The debt is allowed under a new credit policy for Oireachtas staff.
Plus the number of buildings lying empty managed by the Office of Public Works.
Twice as much was spent in February 2019 than the same month last year.
New credit process brought in last year to Leinster House facilities sees tabs of more than two months automatically deducted.
Gardaí are also investigating one case of fraud in relation to an Oireachtas salary.
Over 1,700 packets were sold in the year to 15 October.
Who was it necking the shot?
A motion calling for the closure of the Dáil bar has been passed by the Kerry Vintners’ Federation.
They said the taxpayer should not be footing the bill for the subsidised alcohol prices.
A tender to supply each of the Oireachtas’ five catering facilities was issued last week.
The Taoiseach encouraged the Oireachtas to investigate how to chase up politicians who fail to pay their bills.
That’s some claim to fame.
The unpaid tabs at the Dáil bar and restaurant amount to €5,000.
Almost €5,500 in unpaid Dáil tabs will be wiped after a series of efforts to recoup the amounts owed failed.
The outstanding tabs are understood to be a “legacy issue” going back to the year 2000.
Since 2015, Guinness has been the most popular drink in the Dáil bar.
The Dáil bar made over €11,738.14 on the first day of the 32nd Dáil in March.
Figures released by the Houses of the Oireachtas reveal that the largest sum amounts to over €800.
Eh what is on his face?
The Dáil bar made €7,461.19 the day the Water Services Bill was debated.
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.
Leinster House authorities are taking a more proactive approach when it comes to collecting money owed.
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’.
All the best shouting, attention seeking and scandal caught on camera.
“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.
Seán Barrett says the facility is there to give members somewhere to go when the Dáil is not in session.
Padraig Cribben of the Vintners Federation of Ireland told TheJournal.ie that TDs should be setting an example.
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.
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?
Everyone’s talking about events in Bailieborough and Denis O’Brien’s tax bill.
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.
The Oireachtas bars do not “come under the same regulations as public bars”, a Freedom of Information request has confirmed.
Terry Leyden said former boss Charlie Haughey “would be there in spirit” while Mary O’Rourke would be there in person.
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.
If you guessed over €11,000, you were right.
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