€70k ‘golden goodbye’ for Shatter

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has put pressure on Alan Shatter, the ex-justice minister, to refuse a "golden goodbye" payment of €70,000.

Mr Shatter would be the last former minister able to claim the benefit as he quit office shortly before the perk was abolished.

The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has informed Mr Shatter of the entitlement and it is up to the now backbench Fine Gael TD to decide whether to take it.