S.I. No. 613/2020 - Oireachtas (Allowances) (Members and Holders of Parliamentary and Certain Ministerial Offices) Order 2020

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 11th December, 2020.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 3 (as amended by section 39 of the Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices and Oireachtas Members (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001 (No. 33 of 2001) (“Act of 2001”) and section 8 (5) of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003 (No. 28 of 2003)), 3A (inserted by section 40 of the Act of 2001 and amended by section 2 of the Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 10 of 2020)), 4 and 8 (as amended by section 43 of the Act of 2001) of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 1998 (No. 5 of 1998), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Oireachtas (Allowances) (Members and Holders of Parliamentary and Certain Ministerial Offices) Order 2020.

2. There is payable to a member of Dáil Éireann who holds or held a position in Dáil Éireann specified in column (2) of Schedule 1 at any reference number, an allowance, in respect of the member’s duties as holder of that position, annually at the rate specified in column (3) of that Schedule opposite that reference number, in respect of any period, beginning on or after 8 February 2020, during which the member held that position.

3. There is payable to a member of Seanad Éireann who holds or held a position in Seanad Éireann, specified in column (2) of Schedule 2 at any reference number, an allowance, in respect of the member’s duties as holder of that position, annually at the rate specified in column (3) of that Schedule opposite that reference number, in respect of any period, beginning on or after 29 June 2020, during which the member held that position.

4. There is payable to a member of the Oireachtas who holds or held a position as a member of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission an allowance in respect of the member’s duties as holder of that position, at the rate of €9,500 annually, in respect of any period, beginning on or after 29 July 2020, during which the member held that position.

5. There is payable to –

(a) Jack Chambers, Minister of State at –

(i) the Department of the Taoiseach,

(ii) the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and

(iii) the Department of Defence,

(b) Hildegarde Naughton, Minister of State at –

(i) the Department of Transport, and

(ii) the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications,

and

(c) Pippa Hackett, Minster of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine,

for any period beginning on or after 27 June 2020, as the holders of those offices, respectively, who regularly attend meetings of the Government, an annual allowance at the rate of €11,470.

6. There is payable to a member of the Oireachtas who holds or held the position of chairperson of an Oireachtas Committee specified in Schedule 3 at any reference number, an allowance, in respect of the member’s duties as holder of that position, annually at the rate specified in column (3) of that Schedule opposite that reference number, in respect of any period, beginning on or after 12 May 2020, during which the member held that position.

7. The following are revoked:

(a) the Oireachtas (Allowances) (Members and Holders of Parliamentary and Certain Ministerial Offices) Order 2017 ( S.I. No. 14 of 2017 );

(b) the Oireachtas (Allowances) (Chairpersons of Oireachtas Committees and Holders of Certain Parliamentary Offices) Order 2018 ( S.I. No. 216 of 2018 );

(c) the Oireachtas (Allowances) (Chairpersons of Oireachtas Committees) Order 2019 ( S.I. No. 504 of 2019 ).

SCHEDULE 1

Article 2

SCHEDULE 2

Article 3

SCHEDULE 3

Article 6

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government,

8 December, 2020.

MICHEÁL MARTIN,

Taoiseach.