Recently he has been criticised for claiming attendance expenses, to which he was entitled as a TD once he had registered his attendance at Leinster House.
An investigation by The Irish Times revealed that Mr Murphy has been in Leinster House on 24 sitting days out of 70 in the first nine months of 2019, and 42 of the 104 sitting days during the whole of 2018. It is the lowest attendance record of all TDs by a considerable margin. Mr Murphy has drawn his full TD’s salary of €94,500 plus parliamentary standard allowances totalling €51,600 per annum since taking up his job with the EPP in September 2017.
To receive the full travel and accommodation portion of this allowance, worth €31,500 for a Cork-city based TD, Mr Murphy is required to clock in at Leinster House using an electronic fob on at least 120 days in a full year. He had done so on non-sitting days, often when returning from, or going to, other EU countries, usually on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.
In a statement issued over the weekend, Mr Murphy said that TDs are entitled to have other roles and was fully compliant with all Dail rules about salary and expenses.
Christ it gets worse!!!
Shouldn't he be banged up? If he was from Sherrif street or Ballyfermot he'd be in the Joy 🙄
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