How do bigger countries handle accomodation for elected reps?
You try keeping 3 houses some time.
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For 4 years worth of grants, €260,000 isn’t really that much. What’s more scandalous is that they have second homes in Dublin, presumably for the purposes of coming to work, if not for renting out.
Something which is standard in every country to allow politicians from far away constituencies to fulfil their duties in the capital city. In the UK its 20,000 pound a year. Indeed Sinn Fein claims it for London, despite not even sitting in Westminister. 500,000 pound they claimed in just one period.
No offence the rot in this country comes from the top trying to keep themselves cosy and rich while telling the rest of us to tighten our belts and slow down our driving ,has none of them thought of reviewing their massive wage bills instead a post here recently where they showed a list of assistants they all had none of the assistants were on less than €77k if I remember ,double or treble some peoples wages ….incidentally Eamon Ryan had 6 assistants
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Some are on €43 k but the majority are on loads
It’s not that bad tbh considering some have to travel a long way
I wonder how many are renting them out.?
Seems entirely appropriate.
The alternatives to this model for second accommodation that I can see is if the State buys an apartment block in the city and offers rooms gratis to elected representatives for their term.
Or we end the practice of having the Houses of the Oireachtas do business late into the night so they can go home at 5.30 / 6.00 like normal workers.
Lads what’s the issue. 260k in grants over 4 years comes down to less than 70k a year total. It’d be more expensive to have them in hotels
65k a year. fuck-all really, in the scheme of things…
Could they not set up a place maybe with a shared kitchen and have them all co-live there.
The only thing this revelation could lead to is building more walls around the houses of TDs.
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That is fucking scandalous
How do bigger countries handle accomodation for elected reps?
You try keeping 3 houses some time.
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For 4 years worth of grants, €260,000 isn’t really that much. What’s more scandalous is that they have second homes in Dublin, presumably for the purposes of coming to work, if not for renting out.
Something which is standard in every country to allow politicians from far away constituencies to fulfil their duties in the capital city. In the UK its 20,000 pound a year. Indeed Sinn Fein claims it for London, despite not even sitting in Westminister. 500,000 pound they claimed in just one period.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/sf-defends-500-000-london-allowances-1.761735
No offence the rot in this country comes from the top trying to keep themselves cosy and rich while telling the rest of us to tighten our belts and slow down our driving ,has none of them thought of reviewing their massive wage bills instead a post here recently where they showed a list of assistants they all had none of the assistants were on less than €77k if I remember ,double or treble some peoples wages ….incidentally Eamon Ryan had 6 assistants
Edit
Some are on €43 k but the majority are on loads
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/u43xx3/eamon_ryan_has_7_full_time_advisors_for_a_total/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
It’s not that bad tbh considering some have to travel a long way
I wonder how many are renting them out.?
Seems entirely appropriate.
The alternatives to this model for second accommodation that I can see is if the State buys an apartment block in the city and offers rooms gratis to elected representatives for their term.
Or we end the practice of having the Houses of the Oireachtas do business late into the night so they can go home at 5.30 / 6.00 like normal workers.
Lads what’s the issue. 260k in grants over 4 years comes down to less than 70k a year total. It’d be more expensive to have them in hotels
65k a year. fuck-all really, in the scheme of things…
Could they not set up a place maybe with a shared kitchen and have them all co-live there.
The only thing this revelation could lead to is building more walls around the houses of TDs.