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MacLochlainn publishes expenses
19.01.12
INISHOWEN TD, Deputy
Pádraig MacLochlainn has today released details
about his income and expenses.
Sinn Féin party policy as endorsed by the party's
Ard Fhéis (Annual Conference) states that all Sinn
Féin representatives elected to the Dáil, Northern
Assembly, European Parliament, or Westminster
Parliament receive the party wage based on the
average industrial wage within their state of
residence.
All additional income must be donated back to the
party and/or invested into the representative’s
constituency service.
"In my case, all additional income that I receive is
invested into my constituency service (the
employment of an additional full time constituency
secretary).
"I am paid a standard TD’s salary of €92,672 gross
per annum. After tax, USC, pension levy, and pension
contributions, I receive into my bank account
€44,241 net annually. As a Sinn Féin TD, I take home
a salary of €29,900 net per annum or €575 net per
week.
"I receive a fixed amount of €34,850 per annum for
travel and accommodation expenses. After the actual
cost of my travel and accommodation is provided for,
I deploy the balance along with the remaining amount
from my wage to the salary of an additional full
time constituency secretary. |
In 2011, I received
€21,416 for fully vouched office costs/ expenses,
including the rent and utility costs of my two
constituency offices in Buncrana and Letterkenny. Of
that, I will have deployed €21,087.19 for which I
have retained all invoices and evidence of
expenditure and the remainder will be returned to
the Oireachtas."
The Buncrana-based deputy said all new TDs are
allocated an office start-up grant of €8,000 as a
once-off payment.
"I availed of €7,865.77 to fit out my two
constituency offices for which I have submitted all
invoices and evidence of expenditure to the
Oireachtas. |
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Deputy Pádraig MacLochlainn. |
The Buncrana-based
deputy said all new TDs are allocated an office
start-up grant of €8,000 as a once-off payment.
"I availed of €7,865.77 to fit out my two
constituency offices for which I have submitted all
invoices and evidence of expenditure to the
Oireachtas.
"So in summary, in line with stated Sinn Féin
policy, I earn the average industrial wage. The
expenses that I receive are the actual cost of my
travel and accommodation and I donate the total
balance back in to providing the best constituency
service that any TD has ever provided in Donegal
North East with two offices in Letterkenny and
Buncrana open to the public from Monday to Friday." |
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