SF silent over average wage query

Sinn Féin headquarters has refused to divulge whether or not it monitors the bank accounts of its TDs through local finance officers to ensure they only claim the average industrial wage.

There has been conflicting comments on the practice among the party’s TDs.

Foreign affairs spokesperson, Pádraig MacLochlainn, said bank accounts are checked but finance spokesman Pearse Doherty said this is not true.