Six Kerry TDs Earned Almost €3m In Just Over Three Years

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Screen Shot 2015-01-21 at 22.30.32KERRY’S six TDs have received almost €3m in salaries and expenses since their election to the Dail in March 2011, to July of 2014, according to a report by the RTE Investigations Unit.

Five of the TDs received over half a million euro each.

Kerry South Fine Gael Brendan Griffin earned the most at €523,883.07, with his party colleague, Minister Jimmy Deenihan earning the least amount at just under €379,000.

Ministers do not claim expenses in the way that ordinary TDs and Senators do and are allocated a much smaller allowance by authorities at Leinster House.

They can however, claim mileage from their own Departments along with additional day-to-day expenses, and are also entitled to claim additional expenses under the Secretarial Allowance scheme.

It showed Kerry’s six TDs claimed €2,973,983.41 in the period covered by the report.

Kerry North/West Limerick Labour TD, Arthur Spring earned €518,940.57, Independent Deputy Tom Fleming is next at €518,158.38, Michael Healy Rae earned € 518,068.37 and then comes Deputy Martin Ferris on € 516,035.90

The investigation showed that more than 75 different politicians have been paid in excess of half a million euro each in salary, expenses and other payments in a little over three years in office.

The country’s 166 TDs have been paid €78 million, an average of around €470,000 each over the 41-month period for their work, which equates to around €138,000 per year in salary, allowances and expenses.

Some public representatives choose not to be paid expenses or certain allowances, and receive much less.

Here are the figures given for Kerry’s six TDs. The full report on TDs’ payments can be seen here

Jimmy Deenihan

Total € 378,897.12

2014 – Pay: € 65,443.50 Allowance. Minister Expenses: € 9,333.31

2013 – Pay: € 89,965.02 Allowance: Minister Expenses: € 16,000.00

2012 – Pay: €92,672.04 Allowance: Minister Expenses: € 15,466.69

2011 – Pay: € 78,329.94 Allowance: Minister Expenses: € 11,686.62

Martin Ferris 

Total € 516,035.90

2014 – Pay: € 65,443.50 Expenses: € 30,954.56

2013 – Pay: € 89,965.02 Expenses: € 53,065.00

2012 – Pay: €92,672.04 Expenses: € 62,050.00

2011 – Pay: € 78,329.94 Expenses: € 43,555.84

Tom Fleming

Total € 518,158.38

2014 – Pay: € 65,443.50 Expenses: € 30,557.87

2013 – Pay: € 89,965.02 Expenses: € 52,385.00

2012 – Pay: €92,672.04 Expenses: € 61,294.00

2011 – Pay: € 78,329.94 Expenses: € 42,764.01

ADDITIONAL: Constituency Office Grant: € 4,747.00

Brendan Griffin

Total € 523,883.07

2014 – Pay: € 65,443.50 Expenses: € 30,954.56

2013 – Pay: € 89,965.02 Expenses: € 53,065.00

2012 – Pay: €92,672.04 Expenses: € 62,050.00

2011 – Pay: € 78,329.94 Expenses: € 43,403.01

ADDITIONAL: Constituency Office Grant: € 8,000.00

Michael Healy Rae

€ 518,068.37

2014 – Pay: € 65,443.50 Expenses: € 31,351.25

2013 – Pay: € 89,965.02 Expenses: € 53,745.00

2012 – Pay: €92,672.04 Expenses: € 62,806.00

2011 – Pay: € 77,355.06 Expenses: € 44,042.01

ADDITIONAL: Direct Purchase scheme: € 688.49

Arthur Spring

Total: € 518,940.57

2014 – Pay: € 65,443.50 Expenses: € 30,954.56

2013 – Pay: € 89,965.02 Expenses: € 50,077.16

2012 – Pay: €92,672.04 Expenses: € 54,644.00

2011 – Pay: € 78,329.94 Expenses: € 52,447.09

ADDITIONAL Constituency Office Grant: € 4,407.26

One Comment

  1. And they expect us the people of ireland to pay for water what a joke

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