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19/08/2008
TDs Paying Family Members Tax Payers Money
New figures reveal that a fifth of TDs and senators are employing a relative at the taxpayers' expense.
According to reports on Tuesday, a total of 42 members of the Oireachtas' have family members employed in secretarial and parliamentary assistant jobs.
The posts, which pay up to €45,000, are not publicly advertised. Every TD is entitled to employ one secretarial assistant and one parliamentary assistant to aid writing speeches and letters.
According to the report in the Irish Independent, family members account for 8% of the 530 secretarial and parliamentary assistants employed by Ireland's incumbent politicians. Last year, the houses spent €20.9m paying the total wage bill and another €2.5m in 'overtime and extra attendance' payments – with the largest individual amount reaching €16,650.
The information was released under the Freedom of Information Act, although the commission blocked the identification of individuals' salaries.
In Northern Ireland, local MPs look likely to join their mainland colleagues and also be banned from employing their children at taxpayers' expense.
New proposals outlined recently by Harriet Harman, the Leader of the House of Commons, are a bid to address public concerns raised about the abuse of research jobs and expenses.
See: MPs Children May Be Banned From Office
(DW)
According to reports on Tuesday, a total of 42 members of the Oireachtas' have family members employed in secretarial and parliamentary assistant jobs.
The posts, which pay up to €45,000, are not publicly advertised. Every TD is entitled to employ one secretarial assistant and one parliamentary assistant to aid writing speeches and letters.
According to the report in the Irish Independent, family members account for 8% of the 530 secretarial and parliamentary assistants employed by Ireland's incumbent politicians. Last year, the houses spent €20.9m paying the total wage bill and another €2.5m in 'overtime and extra attendance' payments – with the largest individual amount reaching €16,650.
The information was released under the Freedom of Information Act, although the commission blocked the identification of individuals' salaries.
In Northern Ireland, local MPs look likely to join their mainland colleagues and also be banned from employing their children at taxpayers' expense.
New proposals outlined recently by Harriet Harman, the Leader of the House of Commons, are a bid to address public concerns raised about the abuse of research jobs and expenses.
See: MPs Children May Be Banned From Office
(DW)
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