Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

The distinction is that the fund allows for judicial salaries and pensions, the President's salary, and my salary, but this is an allowance. That is the only aspect of it that is different from the others. The amount paid to those officeholders is published and known because it is a salary, whereas this allowance has a different character.