It's funny the way builders and "developers" call on the Govt to do things, when so many of them appear on the Revenue list of tax defaulters - if you don't pay tax, you can't call on Govt to do anything, you should just go to jail and stay there.
Its funny how many people seem to make such a big thing of the Baileys' links with FF in view of their tax compliance record (or lack thereof), but don't seem to complain much about the influence wielded by other controversial and well-connected developers - including one very prominent company which not too long ago, was notorious for its appalling health & safety record, including a string of fatalities on its sites and prosecutions by the Health & Safety Authority.If only this statement were true. The Government (well the FF part of it) were delighted to welcome the principals of Bovale Ltd to the tent at the Galway races both last year and this. The fact that they settled for €22m with Revenue in '06 obviously didn't deter FF from having the crack with them.
As long as political parties are not state funded the problem of actual and perceived influence over those parties by groups or companies will exist. If we want democracy we should be willing to fund it with a system of payments by the exchequer weighted in favour of smaller parties.
Surely, weighting the funding in favour of smaller parties in such a system, would only accelerate this process?
Its funny how many people seem to make such a big thing of the Baileys' links with FF in view of their tax compliance record (or lack thereof), but don't seem to complain much about the influence wielded by other controversial and well-connected developers - including one very prominent company which not too long ago, was notorious for its appalling health & safety record, including a string of fatalities on its sites and prosecutions by the Health & Safety Authority.
It speaks volumes for the level of hypocrisy and double standards in this country that the fact that people actually died as a consequence of this company's malpractices is more or less forgotten a decade or so later, while the Baileys are widely reviled and cited as "the most glaring example of a lack of any type of ethics or morale standard" although nobody died as a result of their crimes.
It speaks volumes for the level of hypocrisy and double standards in this country that the fact that people actually died as a consequence of this company's malpractices is more or less forgotten a decade or so later, while the Baileys are widely reviled and cited as "the most glaring example of a lack of any type of ethics or morale standard" although nobody died as a result of their crimes.
I'm not going to name either this guy or his company for fear of breaking the "no libel" posting guidelines but if you google "worker died on dublin apartment site" or something similar you should get a good idea of the sort of character I am talking about.
It speaks volumes for the level of hypocrisy and double standards in this country that the fact that people actually died as a consequence of this company's malpractices is more or less forgotten a decade or so later, while the Baileys are widely reviled and cited as "the most glaring example of a lack of any type of ethics or morale standard" although nobody died as a result of their crimes.
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