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“Severance allowance payable to certain former Ministers of State.
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29A.—(1) This section applies to a person who, having served as a Minister of State, becomes entitled to a severance allowance on account of having held a qualifying office.
(2) If a person to whom this section applies was entitled to be paid an allowance under section 3A of the
Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act, 1998
(as inserted by
section 40
of the Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices and Oireachtas Members (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2001), at any time during the 2 years immediately preceding the time when the person ceased to hold a qualifying office, the amount of the relevant salary referred to in section 29 is to be increased as provided by subsection (3).
(3) The increase is to be calculated in accordance with the following formula:
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