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Public Representation Allowance – for maintaining a constituency office; €20,350 for backbench TDs, less for ministers. All expenses must be vouched, except for a "petty cash" allowance of €100 per month. Until December 2012 TDs could choose between a €25,000 vouched allowance or €15,000
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Empower local Government so that our national representatives TDs don't engage in parochial politics./Cumhacht a thabhairt don Rialtas áitiúil ionas nach mbeidh ár gcuid ionadaithe náisiúnta, na TDanna, i mbun na polaitíochta
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used in other countries. The official translation of the term is "Deputy to the Dáil", although a more literal translation is "Assembly Delegate".
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The victorious group assumed the title of the Irish Republican party, and styled themselves not M.P., but F.D.E. (
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A candidate for election as TD must be an Irish citizen and over 21 years of age. Members of the judiciary, the
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is automatically returned unless they announce their retirement before the dissolution of the Dáil.
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used to refer to individual TDs during debates in Dáil Éireann is the member's surname preceded by
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Tháinig na Teachtaí I gceann a chéile I nÁrus Árd-Mhéire Bhaile Átha Cliath ar a 3.30 iar nóin.
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Travel and accommodation allowance – ranging from €9,000 for TDs less than 25 km from
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The initials "TD" are placed after the surname of the elected TD. For example, the current
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The term was first used to describe those Irish parliamentarians who were elected at the
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expenses provisions, the system was simplified in 2009 and 2010 into two allowances:
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Irish Views on Old Austria and Austrian Views on the Irish Question, 1848–1918
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Electoral Act 1992, s. 41: Disqualification for membership of Dáil (
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receive additional allowances. Office-holders (opposition party leaders,
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73 out of 105 seats won in Ireland at the 1918 general election were by
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in Dublin on 21 January 1919 to create a new Irish parliament: the
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members refused to recognise the Dáil, and so did not attend.
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Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017
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Index

Teachta
Politics of the Republic of Ireland
Coat of arms of Ireland
Constitution
Amendments
President
Michael D. Higgins
Council of State
Presidential Commission
Government
Cabinet
Taoiseach
Simon Harris
Tánaiste
Micheál Martin
Departments of State
Public Service
Civil Service
State Agencies
Attorney General
Rossa Fanning
Oireachtas
Dáil Éireann
Ceann Comhairle
Seán Ó Fearghaíl
Seanad Éireann
Cathaoirleach
Jerry Buttimer
Opposition
Leader

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