Non-payment of cash in recent years has penalised office holders, says Galway East TD Seán Canney
Independent TD Seán Canney: 'If you were going into a ministerial office over the past 10 years you ended up with less of an amount of money to do more.' Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collinshas said he requested that a travel and subsistence allowance, worth about €32,000 annually, be restored for ministers of State.
“If you were going into a ministerial office over the past 10 years you ended up with less of an amount of money to do more.” The incoming government is set to be the largest in the State’s history after a decision to create three additional minister of State roles and a fourth super junior cabinet member. This brings the number of ministerial positions to 38.
The Fianna Fáil TD added that “if we are to truly service the people who elect us then we need a workforce, within the Dáil, within cabinet and junior ministerial roles that can actually do that. We are now at five million of a population and there is a greater number of TDs in the Dáil to reflect that and there is a recognition that more work needs to be done.”
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