Acting ministers paid €2.3m in 54 days

By my reckoning, on April 20, the 158 elected members of Dáil Éireann, Ceann Comhairle, an (acting) Taoiseach, an (acting) Tánaiste, the 14 acting ministers including three non-elected, the 15 acting junior ministers including four non-elected, will have, for the previous 54 days, received a combined salary of €2,389,264.47.

Of course, I have not included their expenses!

Not bad, for not doing what you have been elected to do.

Each TD will have received €12,909.40 over those 54 days.

That compares to a single man’s Job Seekers Allowance of €9,776 per annum, and a single man’s retirement pension of €11,975.60 per annum.

Maybe it is the Job Seekers Allowance that they all should have been paid.

Joe Burns

Sceilg Mhíchíl

Monkstown

County Cork