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

Type Statutory Instrument

Publication 2020-12-11

Last updated 2025-07-04

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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

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 );

SCHEDULE 1

Article 2


Reference number	Position in Dáil Éireann	Rate of annual allowance
(1)	(2)	(3)
1.	Assistant Government Whip	€15,000
2.	Fianna Fáil Party Whip	€10,000
3.	Fine Gael Party Whip	€10,000
4.	Green Party Whip	€6,000
5.	Sinn Féin Party Whip	€19,000
6.	Solidarity/People Before Profit Party Whip	€6,000
7.	Labour Party Whip	€6,000
8.	Social Democrats Party Whip	€6,000
9.	Fianna Fáil Party Assistant Whip	€5,000
10.	Fine Gael Party Assistant Whip	€5,000
11.	Green Party Assistant Whip	€3,000
12.	Sinn Féin Party Assistant Whip	€9,500

SCHEDULE 2

Article 3


Reference number	Position in Seanad Éireann	Rate of annual allowance
(1)	(2)	(3)
1.	Deputy Leader of the House	€9,500
2.	Government Whip	€6,000
3.	Assistant Government Whip	€4,000
4.	Sinn Féin Group Leader	€6,000
5.	Independents Group Leader	€6,000
6.	Civil Engagement Group Leader	€6,000
7.	Labour Group Leader	€6,000
8.	Sinn Féin Group Whip	€4,000
9.	Independents Group Whip	€4,000
10.	Civil Engagement Group Whip	€4,000
11.	Labour Group Whip	€4,000

SCHEDULE 3

Article 6


Reference Number	Committee	Rate of annual allowance
(1)	(2)	(3)
1.	Special Committee on Covid-19 Response	€9,500
2.	Joint Committee on Climate Action	€9,500
3.	Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence	€9,500
4.	Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands	€9,500
5.	Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement	€9,500
6.	Joint Committee on Agriculture, and the Marine	€9,500
7.	Joint Committee on Justice	€9,500
8.	Joint Committee on European Affairs	€9,500
9.	Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach	€9,500
10.	Joint Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration	€9,500
11.	Joint Committee on Transport and Communications Networks	€9,500
12.	Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment	€9,500
13.	Joint Committee on Disability Matters	€9,500
14.	Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht	€9,500
15.	Joint Committee on Education, Further Education, Research, Innovation and Science	€9,500
16.	Joint Committee on Health	€9,500
17.	Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage	€9,500
18.	Seanad Special Select Committee on the Future Relationship with the UK	€9,500
19.	Committee of Public Accounts	€9,500
20.	Committee on Budgetary Oversight	€9,500
21.	Committee on Members’ Interests of Dáil Éireann	€9,500
22.	Committee on Members’ Interests of Seanad Éireann	€3,100
23.	Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community	€9,500
24.	Joint Committee on the Irish Language, Gaeltacht and the Irish-speaking Community	€9,500
25.	Joint Committee on Public Petitions	€9,500
26.	British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly (formerly the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body)	€9,500

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government,

8 December, 2020.

MICHEÁL MARTIN,

Taoiseach.

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