File photo of business class seats on a plane. Image: Shutterstock/Aureliy File photo of business class seats on a plane. Image: Shutterstock/Aureliy THE OIREACHTAS SPENT more than €207,000 on overseas travel for TDs and senators in the last 10 months.
Their trip to Asunción in September to attend the Sixth Global Conference of Young MPs cost a total of €9,204 in airfares. “A couple of different options were given to us and, from what I can remember, it was the cheapest option and we went with it,” she said. Conway noted that the pair were in Paraguay from 8-10 September, travelling for about 24 hours either side of that, via Dublin, Madrid in Spain and Buenos Aires in Argentina.
€15,739 was spent to send five parliamentarians to Doha in Qatar for the general assembly of the IPU in April. The €3,132 bill at the renowned Fairmont Chateau Laurier covered two nights of accommodation for Fianna Fáil TD James Lawless, Fine Gael TD Hildegarde Naughton, and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan, who did not in the end travel. €7,154 in total was spent on the trip.
“It certainly looked expensive but it’s the officials who make all of those arrangements and we just basically turn up,” he said.
To be fair I travel a bit and that number is not excessive given the number of our traveling representatives.
Kuntz!!!
Nuts!
Global warming is only for poor people
The question of global warming is of course forgotten about when it comes Foreign Junketing
St Patricks weeks holidays where they bill the tax payer for a wonderful holiday...
Riding that sweet tax funded gravy train for all it's worth. Leeches
But don’t get them started on those damn greedy nurses