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Holidays for Dáil Éireann Members

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  • 14-07-2009 12:28pm
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    JP Liz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭


    How many days/weeks/months off per year?


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    #2
    Riskymove
    Registered Users Posts: 10,885 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    to clarify

    are you asking how many days does the Dail sit?

    or how much leave a TD gets officially?


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    JP Liz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭JP Liz


    leave a TD gets officially


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    Riskymove
    Registered Users Posts: 10,885 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    then I have no idea sorry

    I have an inckling that their system does not really work like a normal annual leave system


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    ninty9er
    Registered Users Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    I don't think there's any technical holiday entitlement...but they probably receive statutory which is about 4 weeks.


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    #6
    burnaby
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭burnaby


    TDs are free to take as much leave as they wish, subject to the following considerations

    1. As a generalisation, their constituents are unlikely to re-elect them if they don't attend sittings of the Dail - most TDs absolutely crave re-election;
    2. The party / whip system requires most of them to attend and vote along party lines, and
    3. Most of them actually want to represent their electorate and participate in the legislative process

    Legally, however, TDs are free to remain absent from the Dail as frequently as they wish, and apart form losing some of their expense allowances, no other sanction can be applied to them

    With a few dishonourable exceptions, most members of the current Dail have a good attendance record.


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    Zoe zebra
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭Zoe zebra


    According to recent media reports some of them even manage to "attend" while they are out of the country...........!!!!!!!!


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    Valetta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    Zoe zebra wrote: »
    According to recent media reports some of them even manage to "attend" while they are out of the country...........!!!!!!!!

    Don't believe all you read or hear from the media.


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    Zoe zebra
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭Zoe zebra


    I think I might believe them faster than I'd believe a politician !!!;)


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    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Zoe zebra wrote: »
    According to recent media reports some of them even manage to "attend" while they are out of the country...........!!!!!!!!

    Probably the Dáil bar.


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