Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances

12:10 pm

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin South, Independent)
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I apologise, but may I finish? Judges of the Special Criminal Court get €145 per day for turning up from a rural area, whatever that means. It just seems to me that this is very unclear. Judges are getting a lot of extra pay. They are immensely well paid. We have already had a controversial referendum on judges' pay. Behind that pay there are many rather opaque allowances that we should know about.