Breach of trust
When Judge [broken link removed] sent the former junior minister and senator down for five months, it wasn’t the piffling four grand he diddled from the State that did for Ivor, but rather the “significant breach of trust” that had been placed in him as a public representative.This case has been going on for years, but Callely didn’t admit his guilt until he was in court in March. He maintained his innocence up until then, lying to the Garda and to the Standards in Public Office Commission in the process.
When he did come clean, noted the judge, the defendant didn’t give the court any explanation for his actions apart from “an excuse of entitlement to the monies.”
I think Purple was pointing out the irony (probably not the right word!) of the situation....
Wallace definitely has his faults alright, but in my view he has largely redeemed himself by being instrumental in bringing down Shatter, now there was the worst example of a minister for justice we've ever had.Yes, that was my point. I'm glad Callely got a custodial sentence but I am amazed and sickened that Mick Wallace is in Leinster House and not in prison.
In my opinion he is the worst example of a TD, and as a TD, that we've ever had.
Really? What did Shatter do that was worse than tax evasion, taking money from his employees that should have gone into their pensions, gifting a half million euro villa in order to avoid creditors and burning small suppliers to the tune of hundreds of thousands of Euro?Wallace definitely has his faults alright, but in my view he has largely redeemed himself by being instrumental in bringing down Shatter, now there was the worst example of a minister for justice we've ever had.
.. now there was the worst example of a minister for justice we've ever had.
fair point, and im old enough to remember that, so I guess it only makes him the worst minister for justice in over thirty years, my apologies..Ask your parents about a certain Fianna Fail TD who held that office in the 1980s.
Worse than Brendan Smith, Brian Lenihan, Dermot Ahern, John O'Donoghue, Padraig Flynn, Nora Owen, Michael Mc Dowell and Maire Geoghegan Quinn? Hmmmmmmm
Really? What did Shatter do that was worse than tax evasion, taking money from his employees that should have gone into their pensions, gifting a half million euro villa in order to avoid creditors and burning small suppliers to the tune of hundreds of thousands of Euro?
Shatter was and probably still is an arrogant man who abused his power for petty political purposes but he was an excellent legislator and a social liberal in a conservative centre right party.
What did Shatter do that was worse than tax evasion, taking money from his employees that should have gone into their pensions, gifting a half million euro villa in order to avoid creditors and burning small suppliers to the tune of hundreds of thousands of Euro?
Shatter was and probably still is an arrogant man who abused his power for petty political purposes but he was an excellent legislator and a social liberal in a conservative centre right party.
Shatter abused his office
Shatter abused his office, that is worse than tax evasion etc surely? He also did not act correctly in relation to the whisleblowers, the bugging of GSOC is still not clear to me, and his department, of which he was supposed to be in charge sounds to be in total disarry.
I agree he was socially liberal.
Disagree that he was an excellent legislation as the Insolvency legislation is already known to be flawed.
Wallace definitely has his faults alright, but in my view he has largely redeemed himself by being instrumental in bringing down Shatter, now there was the worst example of a minister for justice we've ever had.
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