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

3:00 pm

Mr. Kieran Coughlan:

It changed mainly because Ministers tended to not wait for the review and they increased unilaterally some of the allowances at the time. Consequently, at a certain point in 1996, the review body stated it would not consider the improvement in allowances anymore.