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:

That is right. It audits the accounts now. However, as Deputy McDonald noted earlier, for the Independent Members it does not. As raised elsewhere previously, it is a tax-free and unvouched sum for the Independents.