Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 7:

In page 4, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“(3) The combined parliamentary activities allowances paid to a party under this section, shall be reduced by the amount of any payment paid to any person working for a Minister who is a member of that party, that is in excess of public sector pay guidelines.”.

There should be a reduction of the parliamentary activities allowance to a party in Government where that party has Members who are Ministers and those Ministers are paying amounts above the public sector pay norms to people working directly for them. If they want to have extra money paid to individuals through their Department, there should be an abatement of that amount through the parliamentary activities allowance.

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