TDs claim €1,000 in subsistence payments for five-day Swiss trip
These expenses do not not cover the cost of travel, hotel, taxis, telephone or car parking.
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These expenses do not not cover the cost of travel, hotel, taxis, telephone or car parking.
If TDs are found to be misusing travel allowances but didn’t know about it, writes Eoin O’Malley, maybe the rules are the problem…
Independent TD Thomas Pringle said that he did not use expenses to travel around the country to urge people to boycott the household charge as other independent deputies have done.
Leinster House affirms that Pearse Doherty’s travel expenses would more than cover the amount he received.
Sinn Féin says its finance spokesperson has received conflicting information from the Oireachtas on his use of €8,000 in travel allowances to hire staff and whether he can retrospectively put it towards the cost of a car purchase.
The Sinn Féin TD wants to put the money used for the employment of constituency workers towards the cost of a car in order to satisfy Oireachtas rules but it’s not clear if he can.
Politicians tell us we’re all in the same boat – but their expenses and other wasteful decisions tell a different story, writes former trader Nick Leeson.
While the country struggles under immense financial pressure, eight cabinet ministers take expenses that can’t be audited.
Figures released by the Oireachtas detail exactly how much every TD in the country claimed in expenses from the day they got elected until the end of December 2011.
We look at how the majority of the 31st Dáil representatives were paid allowances in 2011.
34 TDs in the 31st Dail claimed over €50,000 in expenses from the Oireachtas last year – here’s the full list.