Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to introduce a fully vouched system for Oireachtas Members' expenses. [2908/14]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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From 1 January 2013 I introduced changes to the Oireachtas expense allowance regime to require full vouching for expenditure under the Parliamentary Standard Allowance, other than for monthly expenditure in the nature of petty cash for incidental expenses per month of €100 for each Deputy and €75 for each Senator.

The travel and accommodation element of that allowance, which is a single payment  covering the costs of travel to and from Leinster House, overnights where applicable and, in the case of Deputies constituency travel, was already verified through recorded attendance at Leinster House, under the reforms introduced in 2010 by my predecessor.