Full transparency in everyone’s interests

AT the moment, in addition to basic pay, TDs are entitled to a staggering array of allowances and expense payments.

These include an allowance for constituency travel, an allowance for travel to Leinster House, an allowance for overnights, a constituency telephone allowance, a constituency office grant, a constituency office maintenance allowance, a special secretarial allowance, a miscellaneous expense allowance and more.

A myriad of rules governs these different allowances, making it far from easy to compare what each TD claims.