Councillors make court threat over pensions

COUNTY councillors are threatening court action to win pension rights for local authority representatives.

Councillors make court threat over pensions

The Local Authority Members Association has also been urged to consider boycotting the Seanad elections, if long-standing claims for pension rights - comparable to those of TDs and senators - are not met.

County councillors pay PAYE and PRSI on their earnings as local representatives. But, unlike Oireachtas members, they have no pension rights, delegates gathered for LAMA’s annual congress heard.

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