Pay to TDs and Senators cost taxpayer €19.4m last year

The cost to the taxpayer of funding the salaries of all TDs and Senators in Leinster House last year increased by 4.5% to €19.4m.

That is according to the 2018 annual report of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission where the total gross bill for all Oireachtas activities in 2018 totalled €134.35m.