Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
There was a debate on it in the early 1970s. It was also discussed when it was originally instituted in 1938 and there was a subsequent debate in 1944 or 1945. Questions were raised about what the allowance should be used for, and the discretion a President should have over a certain amount of resources to allow him or her some discretion and freedom to operate.
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