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

3:40 pm

Mr. Robert Watt:

Yes. Again, the amounts involved are modest in the overall scheme of things but as a percentage of an individual's pay the allowance equates to 7.3%, which is not insignificant to the 222 people who benefit from it.