Written answers

Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Parliamentary Party Allowances Expenditure

Photo of Alan ShatterAlan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in detail, the sums paid in respect of each allowance to each non-party Independent Member of Dáil Éireann, since the general election held in 2011; and the annual sum in respect of each allowance so paid, including the Leader's allowance. [18274/15]

Photo of Brendan HowlinBrendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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As the Deputy will be aware, details of payments to all Members of the Oireachtas under the Parliamentary Standard Allowance are published on the Houses of the Oireachtas website.

Deputy Thomas Pringle receives an allowance as Chairperson of the Committee on Members' Interests of Dáil Éireann for which the current rate is €8,740 per annum.  The amounts paid to Deputy Pringle to date in the current Dáil in respect of the allowance are as follows:

2011 - €4,803; 2012 - €9,500; 2013 - €9,120; 2014 - €8,740; 2015 - €1,457.

The current annual rate payable to an Independent Member of Dáil Éireann under the Parliamentary Activities Allowance, following the changes made in July 2014, is €37,037 per annum.  The total amounts paid to date to each such Member in the current Dáil are as follows.

Independent TDs2011201220132014Mar.Qtr. 2015
Catherine Murphy€34,783.20€41,151.96€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
Finian McGrath€34,783.20€41,151.96€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
John Halligan€34,783.20€41,151.96€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
Luke "Ming" Flanagan€34,783.20€41,151.96€41,151.96€16,535.95€0.00
Mattie McGrath€34,783.20€41,151.96€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
Maureen O Sullivan€34,783.20€41,151.96€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
Michael Healy Rae€34,783.20€41,151.96€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
Michael Lowry€34,783.20€41,151.96€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
Michael Wallace€0.00€75,935.16€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
Noel Grealish€34,783.20€41,151.96€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
Shane Ross€34,783.20€41,151.96€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
Seamus Healy€34,783.20€41,151.96€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
Stephen Donnelly€34,783.20€41,151.96€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
Thomas Pringle€34,783.20€41,151.96€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
Tom Fleming€34,293.30€41,641.86€41,151.96€39,094.50€9,259.26
Michael Fitzmaurice€0.00€0.00€0.00€0.00€0.00
Total€486,474.90€652,552.50€617,279.40€563,858.95€129,629.64

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