O'Rourke wiping her hands of Luas Fiasco

Floater · 29-09-2003 6:10pm #1

Coddled in the bosom of €300 / hr consultants for five long drawn out years with virtually unlimited financial resources to sort the job out, Senate leader Mary O’Rourke today denied any and all liability for the Luas screw up.

Totally at variance with her brilliant performance on eircom and its grossly overpriced IPO, the screwed up mainline rail network, airports, and BB internet, which were also under her charge for about half a decade.

Might forgive her if she got at least one thing right. And now she has the audacity to try and wash her hands…

www.maryorourke.ie

Floater

spongebob · 29-09-2003 8:14pm

It wasn't her hands she wiped as it happens.

Victor · 29-09-2003 8:24pm

Of course Mary was meant to make a decision on the Airport line in something like 1998 ... she must have had too many consultants reports in her in tray.

Imposter · 30-09-2003 7:57am

Is it just me or is that link not working?

star gazer · 30-09-2003 10:09am

i think it's called collective irresponsibility, where everone blames everyone else and in the end no one has to take the blame. It's just as well we have decisive leadership or this country would be in a right mess!

swiss · 30-09-2003 1:11pm

President Truman had a sign on his desk during his time in office. It read "The buck stops here". Mary O Rourke would do well to remember that, instead of wishing to pass it on to her expensive consultants and underlings. As Minister for Transportation, she was the figurehead, the person responsible for overseeing the nations transportation projects.

It is increasingly typical that anyone involved in a large scale project that goes wrong will look to blame somebody else. In the Luas fiasco, I blame the person in charge, and that was clearly Mary O Rourke. Now, the mess has been handed over to Seamus Brennan. I don't expect an efficient resolution, but a measure of responsibility and leadership is required, something which has been - to date - sorely lacking.

IgnatiusJRiley · 30-09-2003 1:23pm

So then are we all agreed not to vote FF in the next election then?

Floater · 30-09-2003 3:24pm

Originally posted by Imposter
Is it just me or is that link not working?

No it is not just you...

Her website has been "down" since the internet was invented, if you get my drift

Floater

star gazer · 30-09-2003 4:00pm

...she still receives telegraphs to her bathtub.

The buck stops with Bertie Ahern, if he appoints someone and they can't/don't do the job, he's gotta find someone who can.

O'Rourke wiping her hands of Luas Fiasco

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