Belfast councillors asked if they want a pay rise
At a recent Belfast City Council committee meeting, elected representatives were asked by council officers to consider increasing the basic allowance paid to each councillor from £15,486 per annum to £16,394 with effect from April 1, 2022.
At the meeting of the Strategic Policy and Resources Committee however, after a Sinn Féin proposal, councillors agreed not to raise their basic allowance or special responsibility allowance, but increase the rate of dependents’ carers’ allowance. In April 2022 councillors asked officers to write to Stormont ’s Department for Communities to amend legislation to set up an independent process, similar to that for MP’s, for allowances to be set by an independent body, rather than elected members. Belfast Council still has not received a response from the Stormont department.
“When Stormont gives itself pay bungs during a cost of living crisis or when workers are on strike, the mind boggles. Do we know why we haven’t even got a response?”
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