Am looking forward to the Green Party (if in government) abolishing this special higher rate of mileage that applies only to ministers and judges for gas-guzzling cars. There’s no way they could stand over it, is there ;-) https://t.co/4iwgawMBXU
— Ken Foxe (@kenfoxe) June 19, 2020
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What CC is the witch Zappone’s broom?
A literal lol
Are they the same as typical civil servant/public sector mileage? Or are they higher?
Higher
Same for the first 3 engine sizes. The 4th column is higher.
https://www.revenue.ie/en/employing-people/employee-expenses/travel-and-subsistence/civil-service-rates.aspx
interestingly you can claim 8c per km for a bicycle!
That’s interesting alright. Poor Eamon – missing out on all of that nice juicy mileage.
Ok, I see, there’s an extra column on the right. That’s really face down in the through kind of stuff. The top rate not good enough for people!?
It’s a little extra to keep the elite in talcum powder for their botties.
Plus motor tax goes by grams of CO2 per KM these days, not engine size. So is due an overhaul for this reason alone.
You’d expect it to go in reverse order, bigger the engine the less allowance you get. Electric would get highest.
Is this actually relevant?
I thought that ministers got a car and a driver? So they wouldn’t need claim mileage because there was no cost.
the State cars were taken off a lot of ministers (apart from Taoiseach, Tanaiste, Justice Minister)- they hire their own drivers (probably family members) AND claim a mileage allowance as far as I’m aware.
Thanks. And I wasn’t aware.
Only the Taoiseach, Tanaiste, and Minister for Justice get a state car. All other ministers – because of a decision made during the FG/Labour govt – use their own cars and claim mileage. Ministers of State always used their own cars. You are correct to say they can hire drivers.
In addition to the special rate of mileage for ministers/judges, you might also be interested to know that the system in place for ministerial mileage is entirely unvouched. They do not have to provide any details of date, time, destination of travel and simply submit a mileage total for each month.
When the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) asked them to vouch for their mileage, the government refused. In a letter to SIPO, the government secretary general Martin Fraser wrote: “It is certainly the case that it is not possible for a member of the government to be involved in any activity outside his/her home in a manner that is entirely private. Even private activities such as shopping, family outings, attendance at sporting or cultural events etc are liable to become mixed with public duties.”
I wish I was making this up but I’m not.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2019-11-13/105/
Question by Paul Murphy