Editing Teachta Dála (section)

==Salaries and expenses==
The basic salary of a [[backbencher|backbench]] TD is €113,679.<ref>{{cite web |date=1 June 2024 |title=TDs and Senators salaries |url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/salaries-and-allowances/salaries/ |access-date=18 June 2024 |work=Houses of the Oireachtas}}</ref> [[Government of Ireland|Cabinet ministers]] and [[Minister of State (Ireland)|junior ministers]] receive additional allowances. Office-holders (opposition party leaders, [[Whip (politics)|whip]]s, the Ceann Comhairle, and [[Leas-Cheann Comhairle]]) also receive additional allowances.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/tdssenators/salariesallowances/daileireann/#d.en.9351|title=Allowances for additional responsibilities payable to Members of Dáil Éireann|publisher=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=6 June 2013}}</ref>

After controversy regarding alleged abuses of the [[Oireachtas]] expenses provisions, the system was simplified in 2009 and 2010 into two allowances:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.finance.gov.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=6207|title=Revised system of expense allowances for Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas |date=10 February 2010|publisher= Department of Finance, Government of Ireland |access-date=6 June 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019115259/http://www.finance.gov.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=6207|archive-date=19 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.herald.ie/news/lavish-expenses-for-oireachtas-face-overhaul-27898896.html|title=Lavish expenses for Oireachtas face overhaul|last=Murphy|first=Cormac|date=21 January 2009|work=[[Evening Herald]]|access-date=6 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2009/act/29/enacted/en/print|title=Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 2009|date=21 July 2009|work=[[Irish Statute Book]]|access-date=6 June 2013}}</ref><ref name="oirpsa">{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/salaries-and-allowances/parliamentary-standard-allowances/ |title=Parliamentary Standard Allowance (PSA) – Travel and Accommodation and Public Representation Allowances|publisher=Oireachtas|access-date=5 January 2024}}</ref>

*Travel and accommodation allowance – ranging from €9,000 for TDs less than 25&nbsp;km from [[Leinster House]] to €34,065 for those more than 360&nbsp;km away.<ref name="oirpsa" />
*Public Representation Allowance – for maintaining a constituency office; €20,350 for backbench TDs, less for ministers.<ref name="oirpsa" /> 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 unvouched.<ref name="ind28943963">{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/finally-tds-must-provide-receipts-but-no-full-reform-28943963.html|title=Finally, TDs must provide receipts but no full reform|last=Kelly|first=Fiach|date=6 December 2012|work=[[Irish Independent]]|access-date=6 June 2013}}</ref>