Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Could someone add that up and I will come back to it?

Mr. Coughlan then moved on to the secretarial allowance, that is, the staffing issue. Deputies, Ministers and Senators can opt for an entirely transparent system or for one that is at least partially unvouched. I accept that Mr. Coughlan is not the person who set out the parameters of this system, but it is completely and utterly illogical. It makes no sense to offer a Deputy, Senator or Minister the option of getting an annual allowance of almost €9,000, unvouched and paid in two instalments, plus the balance in a vouched manner. That looks extremely hokey, as it were. The average citizen would say there is something not quite right about it. It looks cumbersome. Could Mr. Coughlan tell us the number of Deputies, Ministers and Senators who avail of options D, B and C, respectively?