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No. 100 of 2013Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013
Public bill · Government · Presented
Cuts the allowance paid to qualifying political parties and independent TDs and senators for parliamentary work, including research, by 10%, while renaming it the Parliamentary Activities Allowance. It strengthens oversight by extending auditing and record-keeping requirements to independents, allowing public inspection of spending reports, requiring unspent money to be repaid, and withholding payments for non-compliance; it also abolishes severance payments for certain ministers and parliamentary office-holders.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 1938 and to provide for related matters
Last updated 12 April 2018
Sponsor
- Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Primary
Progress
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- Second StageDáil
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- Report StageDáil
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Debates
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Fifth Stage Dáil
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage Dáil
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage Dáil
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee Dáil
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage Dáil
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages Seanad
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) Seanad
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage Seanad
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage Seanad
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage Seanad
- Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) Seanad
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