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Three TDs paid extra office expenses

For the first time, three TDs have been paid EXTRA expenses by the Oireachtas to cover the costs of...
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1:14 PM - 7 Apr 2014



Three TDs paid extra office ex...

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Three TDs paid extra office expenses

TodayFM
TodayFM

1:14 PM - 7 Apr 2014



For the first time, three TDs have been paid EXTRA expenses by the Oireachtas to cover the costs of running their offices.

The three deputies have been given almost five-and-a-half thousand euro after producing receipts that showed their usual allowances weren't enough to cover all of their costs.

The three TDs are Ceann Comhairle Seán Barrett, social protection minister Joan Burton and former Labour TD Roisin Shortall.

It's the first time that TDs have been able to claim extra expenses, under changes introduced in Budget 2013 which forced all TDs to produce receipts for the expenses they claimed.

Meanwhile 40 TDs have returned some of their unused expenses from last year, while 24 senators also returned some of their payments.



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