Reading this morning about two councillors – Michael Dollard and Detty Cornally – who have been claiming mileage expenses even though neither one of them drives a car.
Between them they’ve claimed over €17,000 in the last four years. Dollard got his wife to drive him to various conferences while Cornally’s part-time teacher son drove her to whatever engagements she attended. Apparently this is not against the rules even though neither of them has a driving licence.
Here’s my thinking – if you can’t fucking drive then you can’t claim mileage. If you can’t fucking drive then do what the rest of us do and use public transport to get to places. Or learn to drive.
Otherwise shut the fuck up and stop wasting our money. Why should a councillor’s wife be eligible for mileage? Or a councillor’s son? It’s absolute bollocks but typical of the kind of shit people have been able to get away with for so long in this country.
Look at Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue and the expenses he racked up when he was Tourism Minister. The sense of entitlement is staggering and it goes from the top down. No wonder no-marks like Dollard and Cornally are claiming every little thing they can get.
Yet we excuse it, we don’t do anything about it. Rody Molloy at FAS might have fallen on his sword after grudgingly accepting the hotels and flights and everything else he charged to his company credit card were not his right. Yet the rest of the board who must have known about it and sanctioned it stay in their jobs.
It’s time for the rules to change, expenses are not an excuse to live above your station. And when people are found abusing that privilege, because it’s our fucking money they’re spending, then they should be dealt with accordingly. They can pay back the money or they get fired.
dead right twenty and these cheating pricks and their ilk are prob the same ones who support a cut in the min wage.
The pigs were very quick to arrest the workers protesting Thomas Cook, weren’t they?
Politicians, bankers, priests and developers… not so much.
They’re all geared up for it, just waiting for anyone to get out of line.
id love to see a copy of brian cowens expenses.
1. lard ……€20000
2. large y fronts…..€80000
3. beer (lots of it)…..€25000 per day
4.currys,kebabs and whirley burgers…not enough space for digits
5.fresh salad……€0.00
6.being a fat fucking usless cunt and waste of space……..priceless
haha
As an outsider can I ask if there are any politicians coming through the ranks worthy of respect to give hope for the future ?
at least ireland dont have to worry about the swine flu pandemic…….
we have our own swine sickness just take one look at cowen and no amount of drugs can cure that sickness!
Would the councillors’ wife or son be insured to drive their own cars on official council business whilst not being employees? I’m fairly sure they wouldn’t be in the UK, unless they were officially employed as chauffeurs.
maggot – hahahahaha
the thomas cook workers were been offered 5 weeks per year. Isn’t that pretty good?
twenty for taoiseach….
Terrifying thought jonny.
Yes, especially for me.
Although as a dicatator I’d be quite good, I think.
who would be first to get the chop Twenty ?
You probably wouldn’t even get to see the first maggot, it’d be so fast.
Sure he’d have the guillotine working like a feckin’ sewing machine.
Sure he’d have the guillotine working like a feckin’ sewing machine.
That would be both awesome and hilarious to watch..
just line up every cunt in politics… and then we can start a fresh
Messy though. Still, you could make a fortune out of selling organs to the rest of the world.
GAA first jonny.
Twenty, I fear you have fallen into the trap of focusing on minor questionable expenses claims. I have to say, I don’t think it’s wrong to claim that mileage because it is a legitimate cost being incurred by someone.
Politicians love when we bicker about small time stuff because it takes the attention away from the real shit that goes on like massive bribing of ministers to change laws to suit big business and wholesale rezoning of land to make their buddies rich. It still goes on.
Oh and sneakily trying to bring in Las Vegas style gambling as soon as their mates get their gambling operations ready to start up now that their building empires are fucked.
Gambling and private nursing homes/healthcare are the new cash cows for Zanu FF.
Ah no need for that… they aint all smelly!
*applause*
I see your point, HM, not sure you should be able to claim mileage when you don’t drive though.
David Blunkett resigned over a 1st Class train ticket, If only he could see! wha’s going on over here !!!
Sometimes I wonder if we should re-join the UK.
(Ducks for cover)
“They can pay back the money or they get fired.”
Fuck that, fire their useless arse straight away, if your morals are so scewed that you don’t see anything wrong with wrongly claiming expenses, YOU SHOULDN’T BE A FUCKING POLITICIAN or anyone in a position of power.
Expenses. Expenses. They don’t even earn their bleedin’ wages, the cunts. What are we bleating on about expenses for?
Sack them, from the small time fiddlers to the large scale fiddlers, they are a curse on our country and as long as we put up with them keeping their positions they will continue to screw us, the onus is on us as they will never change their comfortable existence.
It’s not as if any contributors here would ever have bent the rules or done a bit of fiddling – is it ?
Is that Cllr. Dollard of Congo/Lebanon fame ?
This expenses thing is just a smokescreen for the serious shit they don’t want us to think about or find out about. O’Donoghue has been sacrificed because he doesn’t have to be re-elected, he gets a free run next time and will be retiring after that, but by then everything else will be so fucked no one will remember little things like a few hundred grand expenses.
The biggest swindle of all time is about to be perpetrated by Fianna Fail and their buddies in the shape of NAMA, where they will sort out their banker and builder buddies to the detriment of the rest of us.
NAMA will bankrupt this country within 6 months & when the IMF come in to bail us out, Fianna Fail will claim all was done in the best interests of the country. The funny thing is there will be hundreds of thousands of cunts who will actually believe this shit and will still vote for them.
From a distance it looks as though they’ve spiked either the water or the beer..but Irish people seem to just lie there and take it up the arse day after day.
A rohypnol state, and nothing less. We can see it, we can feel it, and we suffer it..but it doesn’t seem as though we can do anything about it in our present condition.