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Oireachtas Members' Expenses

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 December 2012

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Questions (280)

Mary Lou McDonald

Question:

280. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following his Budget 2013 announcements, if the reduction of 10% and more to the expenditure limits that comprise the parliamentary standard allowance will be applied to both the travel and accommodation allowance and the public representation allowance; if he will confirm the reduction he plans to make to both allowances and the date will on which this change will come into effect. [56484/12]

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I announced the following changes to the Oireachtas expenses allowances regime in Budget 2013;

(i) to reduce the rates of the Travel and Accommodation (TAA) element of the allowance by 25% for Dublin (less than 25 km) and by 10% for the other bands (1 – 12),

(ii) to eliminate the unvouched element of the Public Representational Allowance (PRA), subject to permitting monthly expenditure in the nature of "petty cash" for incidental expenses per month of €100 for each Deputy and €75 for each Senator and subject to limits in (iii) below, and

(iii) to reduce the vouched expenditure limits under the PRA to €20,350 for Deputies, €16,000 for Minister and Minister of State, and €12,225 for Senators, or a reduction in each case of nearly 20% of the vouched amounts. It is anticipated that the changes will come into effect from 1 January 2013.

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