Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances
2:50 pm
Mr. Kieran Coughlan:
It is a means of recording attendance. One can still record it and one does not have to fob. One can sign in as well, but that was tried in the 1980s and it was resisted by Members at the time. They had a strong view that as Members of Parliament they should not have to clock in like employees.