Comments on: TD and Senate expenses 1998 – 2008

By: Oireachtas expenses 2002, 2001 – The Story

Oireachtas expenses 2002, 2001 – The Story — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:05:17 +0000

[...] 11: I blog that I have received a reply. The Oireachtas said: “After consideration and consultations, I estimate that the services of [...]

By: VOTS

VOTS — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:38:45 +0000

THE ONE PARTY STATE DICTATORSHIP – You will not get a TD or Senator to do anything in this country for you – after all just gtake a look at how everything is formed, most of the TD’s, Senators, Councillors are all family related – you get independents thats a joke hope out of a party get voted in as an independent and hop back into the party again (Beverly Flynn) then we have the Minister for health Mary Harney was she not voted in as a PD? Are the PD’s not gone now (disolved)? so we have an alien in Government – Mary you have no mandate so you can no longer serve YES? we see all the news about Africa, Russia etc we have a worse dictatorship than any of them because we actually have a ONE PARTY STATE and too many sheep – donation of €100. I would however write a standard letter and email to every single one of the TD’s, Senators and Councillors, the reply furnished will be just to prove a point really and should be posted – they have to reply after all, could become very embarrassing for them as employees of the state vehicle setup up under the Irish People Constitutional workings and answerable to external control i.e. The Irish People who claims full ownership and sovereignty over the Constitution – however I fear this is coming to an end after the sheep in this country voted once again for the Thieves and Liars – THE ONE PARTY STATE – The Lisbon Treaty Referendum (this is how they worded it in the last minute document) (article 28 to be changed so we voted on a change by voting for Lisbon – clever way of changing the constitution but not legal for sure) I see the Cosgrave’s are sending people in to comment down – the spooks are in.

By: michael

michael — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:27:17 +0000

you can get all the information that you may need, but will that change the mindset? not one iota. these politicians are spoilt, uncaring me-fein people. go to any race-meeting and the place is full of them. micheal martin said on radio today that he works a 15 hour day. did you ever hear such bullshit? we need a new system of goverment with new faces, new ideas etc. just look at the state of the country. they want yo ram nama down our throats. the money that the banks will get from nama will be forwarded to pay their foreign bond-holders, there will be nothing left to lend out. would you buy a used car from cowen and his shower?

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:04:16 +0000

€50 from me. As I said on P.ie try Maureen O’Sullivan for the PQ’s.

By: Mark Dennehy

Mark Dennehy — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:13:41 +0000

And @Mark Dennehy,
We have asked people how we can make our donations as transparent as possible before…

Hey, if you want to post lists of donors, go for it (though if you’d leave off the actual house number line of the address, like the Irish Times letters page do, that’d be good). I don’t see any reason to keep information like that secret.

By: steve white

steve white — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:51:37 +0000

i wouldn’t be in hurry to pay for these documents, i dunno maybe hteyll some (lame ) review of expenses next year and they might dig em out themselves for that

i see you say the foi doesn’t cover 1997, but could a td get 97 for compeleness of these recent ff era governements

By: good

good — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:25:08 +0000

I’ll give 50 if you pursue this. Small price to pay for making a contribution.

If the civil servants thought 2k could deter then they are hopefully mistaken.

Just let folks know what you plumb for via a couple of roots so that you get the momentum.

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:27:54 +0000

I’d donate to this. But I’d except to have this monitored by someone I can trust, ala Allan’s idea.

Find a TD to raise this in the Dail, however, is surely the most economical idea.

By: Mór Rígan

Mór Rígan — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:56:08 +0000

€40 more for democracy!

By: simon

simon — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:41:37 +0000

It would be great if you could do. Maybe ask people to donate €1 finding 2300 people might not be as difficult to do. But considering that the telegraph has such success surely an Irish newspaper has already asked for them.