The cost of not having a government

€1,674,016 and counting.

That’s how much we’ve paid 158 TDs and ex-TDs, who are still ministers, to not do their jobs according to Kildare Street.

Not including expenses or TD staff.

Visit Ireland’s No Government TD Cost Clock to watch the number climb.

“KildareStreet.com is a searchable archive of everything that's been said in the Dáil and all written parliamentary questions since January 2004, everything in the Seanad since September 2002, and all Committee meetings since September 2012.”