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www.finianmcgrath.ie
wouldnt be a fan of his but its refreshing to see TD's choosing to publish their expenses, think Leo Veradker does also.
Link to TD's expenses over the last 2 years.
Looking at this list it's now quiet obvious why FG are keeping relatively quiet.
Ahh Bisto, Choo Choo
How can he have relatively low expenses to do his job when others need 3 times as much,
I think Willie O Dea has the lowest expense claims in the Dail. Willie has the highest votes of any Politician in the country yet he has the lowest expenses. So why do other TD's have such high expenses?
If you take Willie as an example then it shows that you do not need high expenses to stay elected.
Willie is in the south west and clims 17k per year, John O' Donoghue is in the south west and claims 329k
It is legal theft in my opinion.
Expenses need to be put on the internet for all to see. If they're legitimate then no TD has anything to fear.
Ministers, such as Willie O'Dea, always have lower expenses claims than ordinary TDs - they are not in the same expenses regime due to Departments, rather than constituencies, being regarded as a Minister's HQ and because a Minister has access to a lot of resources that are paid for directly by the Department for which they do not need to claim.
As Kevin Myers pointed out today "O'Donoghue didn't kill anyone or bomb any pubs . . . so lighten up on the moral indignation'.
In other words it's deeply hypocritical for the Labour leadership and the Shinners to take the moral high-ground on, well, anything.
There were a fair number killed in the Irish Civil war of 1922-23, including many civilians. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are the direct descendants of the opposing sides of this war.As Kevin Myers pointed out today "O'Donoghue didn't kill anyone or bomb any pubs . . . so lighten up on the moral indignation'.
In other words it's deeply hypocritical for the Labour leadership and the Shinners to take the moral high-ground on, well, anything.
What dignity. What magnanimity. What a crock.Speaking to the press - "the men and women of the fourth estate" - Mr O'Donoghue added: "It has been the best of times and it has been the worst of times."
He said he had never taken anything from any man. "I never could, I never would. To do otherwise would be to deny who I am and where I came from.”
I just can't believe that this man is so far removed from how people in this country really feel about him and his expenses.
I would see guys claiming mileage for 3 separate onsite visits on 3 different days whereas they actually did all 3 visits in one day and one round trip. In the private sector forged taxi receipts was a common one
Trust me, expense misuse is everywhere - public and private. Public has more scope & scale because nobody monitors it (in the past that is).
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