COUNCILLORS WHO LOST THEIR SEATS SET TO GET SEVERANCE PAYMENT

Date Published: 10-Jun-2009

Outgoing Galway City and County Councillors are set to receive up to 3500 euro per year, in a retirement gratuity for every year of service since 2000.Retirement packages are currently being calculated for former Councillors Daniel Callinan, Mary Leahy, John Mulholland, Niall Ó Brolcháin and John Connolly and former county Councillors Josie Conneely, Connie Ní Fhatharta, James Joyce, Tom Reilly, Michael Finnerty, Michael Regan, Willie Burke and Michael Carey. The funds are provided by the local authorities who are required to make provisions for it in their budget estimates.