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Keaveney in line for cash windfall
07.06.11
FORMER senator Cecilia
Keaveney is in line for a huge cash windfall after
15 years as a Fianna Fáil member of the Oireachtas.
The former TD, who first took a Dáil seat in 1996,
will receive a one-off termination payment of
€55,000. She will later receive an annual pension of
€40,000 and a lump sum of more than €125,000.
During her four years in the Seanad, the Moville
woman earned an annual salary of €70,000 with an
even higher annual salary for the decade before that
as a sitting TD. She was also entitled to unvouched
expenses of around €50,000 per year. |
She narrowly lost her
Dáil seat in 2007 after which she won a seat in the
Seanad. As she did as a TD, she also sat on a number
of Oireachtas committees.
Relations soured spectacularly between the 43-year
old and Inishowen grassroots supporters earlier this
year with rival, Charlie McConalogue, receiving the
overwhelming support of party members to go forward
to contest the election. |
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Senator Cecilia Keaveney |
First elected to the
Dáil in a 1996 by-election, Keaveney comfortably
retained her seat in the 1997 and 2002 General
Elections before narrowly losing out to Niall Blaney
in 2007.
In recent years the former senator became a member
of the Council for Europe, where she was outspoken
on the issue of corruption in sport.
The former music teacher was also a prominent member
of the British-Irish Parliamentary Body, the
Oireachtas Commission, the Good Friday Agreement
Committee and the Joint Committee on Education and
Science. (Inishowen
Independent) |
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