Oireachtas (Allowances To Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act, 1973

Increase of annual sums payable pursuant to Principal Act.

11.—The following section is hereby inserted in the Principal Act after section 8:

“8A. (1) The Government may, whenever they so think fit, by order increase all or any one or more of the following, namely,

(a) the annual sum payable to the Taoiseach pursuant to section 3 of this Act,

(b) the annual sum payable to every member of the Government, other than the Taoiseach, pursuant to the said section 3,

(c) the annual sum payable to every Parliamentary Secretary pursuant to the said section 3,

(d) any annual sum payable to the Attorney General pursuant to section 4 of this Act,

(e) the annual sum payable to the Chairman of Dáil Éireann and the annual sum payable to the Deputy Chairman of Dáil Éireann pursuant to section 5 of this Act,

(f) the annual sum payable to the Chairman of Seanad Éireann and the annual sum payable to the Deputy Chairman of Seanad Éireann pursuant to section 6 of this Act,

(g) an annual sum payable pursuant to either section 9A or section 10 of this Act.

(2) An order under this section may, if so expressed, have retrospective effect.

(3) Where an order is proposed to be made under this section, a draft thereof shall be laid before Dáil Éireann and, if a resolution disapproving of the draft is passed by Dáil Éireann within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which it has sat after the draft is laid before it, the order shall not be made.”.