S.I. No. 81/2009 - Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary offices) (Secretarial Facilities) (Graphic Design) Regulations 2009

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Secretarial Facilities) (Graphic Design) Regulations 2009.

(2) These Regulations are deemed to have come into operation on 01 July 2008.

2. (1) Each—

(

a

) qualifying party is entitled to a budget for outsourced graphic design facilities based on the aggregate sum of €398.23 for each member of that party, and

(

b

) independent member is entitled to such a budget of €398.23,

paid in accordance with Regulation 3.

(2) In this Regulation “independent member” means a member of either House of the Oireachtas who is not a member of a qualifying party.

3. Payment of the graphic design outsourcing budget is on the basis of expenditure incurred annually between the period 01 July in any year to 30 June in the following year, or if the Dáil is dissolved in that following year before 30 June, upon such dissolution and vouched in accordance with the form set out in the Schedule.

4. Regulation 14(

c

) of the Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Secretarial Facilities) Regulations 2008 (

S.I. No. 36 of 2008

) is amended by substituting “the dissolution of the 30th Dáil” for “30 June 2008”.

5. The Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Secretarial Facilities) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 (

S.I. No. 88 of 2007

) are revoked.

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE Voucher of Graphic Designs Expenses

I, the undersigned, vouch that—

(

a

) the following graphic design expenses were incurred solely for—

[*]the purposes of facilitating my parliamentary duties, in accordance with section 2(1)(

c

) of the

Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act 1962

,

*the purposes of facilitating the parliamentary activities of the elected members of the ____________ party in accordance with section 10(4) of the

Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 1938

,

(

b

) this graphic design work could not be provided by in-house graphic design facilities provided by the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission,

(

c

) the external services procured represent value for money, and

(

d

) the expenditure was incurred between 01 July 20_ and 30 June 20_ or, if the Dáil is dissolved before 30 June in that year, the dissolution of the Dáil, whichever is the earlier.

Accordingly, I present these expenses to be paid out of ongoing expenditure of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission

Company

Item

Quantity

Cost

Vouched by:__________________ Date:________

[*] [delete as appropriate]

The Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Seal

Affixed hereto

Was authenticated by

Member of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission

JOHN O'DONOGHUE,Ceann Comhairle.

Member of staff of the Commission authorised by the Commission

BRIDGET DOODY,Secretary.

12 March 2009.

S.I. No. 81 of 2009

OIREACHTAS (MINISTERIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY OFFICES) (SECRETARIAL FACILITIES) (GRAPHIC DESIGN) REGULATIONS 2009

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

17

th March

, 2009.

The Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 2(1)(

c

) (inserted by

section 3

of the

Oireachtas (Miscellaneous Provisions) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act 1996

(No. 39 of 1996)) of the

Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act 1962

(No. 32 of 1962) and

section 1

0(4) (inserted by

section 1

of the

Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Act 2001

(No. 30 of 2001)) of the

Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 1938

(No. 34 of 1938) and section 4(3) of the

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003

, hereby makes the following regulations