With the election coming up, these databases of political pay, expenses, pensions, and allowances may all again prove of interest.
First up was the database of the €100 million paid out in salaries, expenses and allowances to TDs and Senators in the period between March 2011 and the end of July 2014:
http://www.rte.ie/news/investigations-unit/2015/0120/674364-no-expenses-spared/
Next came a full searchable database of the €65 million that was paid out in pensions, termination payments and other lump sums to our former politicians:
The last of them (and most painstaking of them all) was an analysis of the €27 million paid out to the various government ministers from the 2011 election to the end of 2014:
