Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am interested in that. There is a payment that is made to the President. I do not want to get into the President at all, but a figure of €317,000 per year is provided for under an Act. However, we do not know what it is to be used for. It is an allowance, but we do not know what its purpose is. Theoretically, it could be spent on anything. Presumably, it might not even be spent at all. Is it an amount that is surrenderable at the end of the year?