Mary Lou McDonald says she funds constituency offices with remainder of salary
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she does not have the authority to direct TDs to make a donation to the party and does not seek such authority.
Ms McDonald said that, for about the past five years, Sinn Féin TDs had taken their salary. “They make the maximum legal allowable donation to the party, which I think is €2,500.” She added that the financial relationship was between the Oireachtas and the elected member, “and we can’t inappropriately intervene in that”.For years the party stated that all TDs took the industrial wage and donated the remainder to the party, but in 2018 it emerged that Dublin North West TD Dessie Ellis kept the full salary, which was then €93,598, and it appeared that other elected party members had a similar arrangement.
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