DR JIM McDaid has paid €12,200 of his salary back to the state because of his poor attendance at Leinster House when he was a TD.
Mr McDaid had the worst voting record in the Dail in 2009 and he failed last year to register the required 100 attendance days to claim his full Oireachtas expenses.
Before he quit as a TD, he had only attended Leinster House 36 times but was automatically paid travel and accommodation expenses for 80 days.
Dr McDaid has given back this overpayment.
New rules have since come into force in the Dail – TDs must attend for 12o days in order to claim full expenses.
despite getting paid travel and accommodation expenses for 80 days.
Dr McDaid told a Sunday newspaper that he knew he hadn’t attended enough. He said the travel expenses system was biased against TDs who lived a long way from the capital.
“I’m not complaining about my own case but they should look at the fairness of a system where a Dublin TD only has to attend as much as someone in a peripheral county,” he said.
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