TDs and senators ordered almost 250,000 cards and calendars last year

Wexford TD James Browne ordered 63,000 calendars at an estimated cost of just over €1,724. Picture: Gareth Chaney/ Collins

TDs and senators ordered almost a quarter of a million calendars, Christmas cards, sympathy cards and similar stationery from the Oireachtas printing facility last year, with one Government minister accounting for over a quarter of the total.

Figures obtained from the Houses of the Oireachtas show 236,945 items of stationery, including greetings and congratulations cards, were obtained from the taxpayer-funded service in 2022 with Minister of State at the Department of Justice James Browne ordering 63,000 calendars.