It’s official: Politicians are getting a pay-rise of a further €3,000 bringing their salary to over €90,000 per annum – TheLiberal.ie – Our News, Your Views

It’s official: Politicians are getting a pay-rise of a further €3,000 bringing their salary to over €90,000 per annum




It’s been confirmed that the Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe has signed off on a 5 year deal which will see politicians line their pockets by the taxpayer to a total of just over €2.2 million.

The underhanded deal was pushed through very swiftly last Tuesday, January 24th and it will see over €1m for the chairpersons of Oireachtas committees and €543,000 for TDs who serve as party whips or assistants.

Disabilities Minister Finian McGrath and Defence Minister Paul Kehoe – are entitled to an increase of more than €15,000. That’s on top of their junior minister-level salaries of €121,639.

The Government chief whip Regina Doherty gets another €16k on top of her €87 already in her pocket.

The allowances are on top of a TD’s salary of €87,258. It’ll now rise to just over €90,000.

It’s very hard to see the justification for these increases when so many people sleep rough around the Dail each night and the amount of austerity they pushed onto the everyday person around the country since they came into office in 2011.

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