The following New rates of
subsistence allowance payable to members of Garda rank with effect from 5th March 2009 as a result of Government’s arbitrary decision to reduce agreed rates by 25%
Day Rates Euros
5 to 8 hours
8 to 12 hours
12 hours or more
12.48
21.86
31.99
Night Rates - Absences
on duty other than temporary transfer- Euros
First 7 nights
After 7 and up to 30 nights
After 30 and up to 56 nights
107.69
92.97
53.96
Night Rates - Temporary Transfer - Euros
First 14 nights except
where a stay of more than 14 nights is not foreseen at the outset
First 14 nights if stay of
more than 14 nights is at the outset foreseen
After 14 nights and up to
30 nights
After 30 nights
107.69
92.27
53.96
30.44
Sleeping accommodation without messing facilities - Euros
First 14 nights in any one place
From 15th to 30th night
After 30 nights
49.38
29.50
19.04
Where members are absent on duty from
their permanent stations and both sleeping and messing facilities are available:
First 30 nights
After 30 nights
15.82
20.02
After 56 nights absence on duty other
than on temporary transfer, no allowance is payable except that:
(1) members obliged to
maintain two establishments may be paid vouched extra expenses necessarily incurred within a limit of two (2) nights subsistence a week at the appropriate rate applicable to absence
on duty rather than temporary transfer shown above.
(2) members who, although not obliged to
maintain two establishments, are under additional expenses due to retention of rooms at their normal headquarters may be paid vouched extra expenses calculated by reference to cost of
lodging at temporary station plus cost of retention of rooms at normal headquarters, less cost of lodgings at normal headquarters, within a limit of one night's subsistence a week
at the appropriate rate.
HQ Circular 33/04 of 8th March 2004 refers.
Kilometre * Rates effective 5 March
2009 on Government’s arbitrary decision to reduce agreed rates by 25%
Official mileage in a
year (shown in Kilometres)
Engine capacity under
1200cc
Engine capacity 1201cc
to 1500cc
Engine capacity 1501cc
and over
cent
cent
cent
Up to 6,437 kms
39.12 c
46.25 c
59.07 c
6438 kms and over
21.22 c
23.62 c
28.46 c
Reduced Rate of
Locomotion Allowance
cent
Under 1200cc
14.64 c
1201cc to 1500cc
16.64 c
1501cc and over
19.49 c
* Whereas the new rates as shown above are applicable
from 5 March 2009, the change to claiming per Kilometre, as opposed to per mile, is effective from 1st January 2006.
