Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act, 1938

PART II.

Remuneration of Members of the Government, Parliamentary Secretaries, the Attorney-General, and the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of DÁil Eireann and Seanad Eireann.

Remuneration of Members of the Government and Parliamentary Secretaries.

3.—(1) There shall be paid to the Taoiseach an annual sum byway of salary not exceeding the sum of £2,500 and to each other member of the Government an annual sum by way of salary not exceeding the sum of £1,700.

(2) In lieu of sub-section (5) of section 7 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 (No. 16 of 1924), repealed by this Act, it is hereby enacted that there shall be paid an annual sum by way of salary, not exceeding the sum of £1,200, to every Parliamentary Secretary appointed under the said section 7 who shall not, by the terms of his appointment, be declared to be appointed without salary.

(3) No person entitled to receive a salary under this section shall, at any one time, be paid more than one such salary.

(4) The total number of persons who are, at any one time, in receipt of salaries under this section shall not exceed twenty-two.