Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 July 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018

9:00 am

Mr. Peter Finnegan:

I preface my remarks by saying it is a very important source of funding because it really is the funding of the democratic system. This funding is not administered by the Houses of the Oireachtas.

The way it works in broad terms is that there is a sum of money - I think it is €61,000 - for the first ten Members and it is on a sliding scale.