Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Question 164: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the annual allowance and expenses each city and county manager received in 2010 and 2011. [21055/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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There are a number of allowances available to County and City Managers.

County and City Managers may submit claims in respect of travel and subsistence expenses incurred as part of their official duties in accordance with the relevant travel and subsistence circulars. All local authorities are obliged to ensure that only essential travel is undertaken and that the number of employees going on any official journey is kept to an absolute minimum. Local authorities are also obliged to ensure that related expenditure is critically appraised and monitored.

A Manager may claim up to 7.5% of his/her salary in substitution of motor mileage rates contained in the travel and subsistence circulars, where a local authority considers that those allowances do not adequately recompense the Manager for the extent to which their car is used for official business.

A Manager or Assistant Manager may claim an allowance in respect of individual or casual entertainment expenses incurred by them in relation to development functions and public relations associated therewith. The level of allowance corresponds to the number of Assistant Managers and is contained in the following table:

County and City Managers with designated responsibility for a Regional Authority may claim an allowance of €5,662 per annum in respect of these responsibilities.

Specific details of allowances and expenses paid out by individual local authorities to employees is a matter for the employing local authority.