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Sat 08 Aug 2010Clarity over expenses can pay off for TDs
If the public can see how allowances are spent, it would restore confidence in politics, writes NOEL WHELAN
FOR DECADES, politicians were underpaid for the level of work they did and inadequately compensated for the cost of running constituency operations. From the mid-1990s, however, their pay rates were dramatically increased and more significantly they were provided with a range of new or improved allowances.
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