European Parliament (Irish Constituency Members) Bill 2009

Public bill · Government · Presented

Moves Irish MEPs’ pay from the national budget to the European Parliament’s common salary system, while allowing MEPs re-elected in 2009 to keep their existing Dáil-linked salary. It keeps the existing pension scheme running for accrued and former members, updates conflict-of-interest restrictions, sets tax rules for European Parliament salaries, and lets the Oireachtas Commission process certain payments to MEPs’ local assistants on a reimbursed basis. Over time, it is expected to reduce national spending on MEP salaries and pensions.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to make transitional provisions for the payment of salaries to certain members of the European Parliament, to provide for matters relating to those and other members of that Parliament, to amend Part 5 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, to amend section 55 of the Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices and Oireachtas Members (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001, to amend the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003 and to repeal the European Assembly (Irish Representatives) Act 1979

Last updated 12 April 2018