FÁS Board to Resign.

MagicMarker · 13-09-2009 12:56pm #1

Well what do you know, something good is going to happened!

Will a new board really make a difference?

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0913/fas.html

The chairman of the board of FÁS has said all its members will resign in the wake of a report which showed a massive waste of taxpayer money.

Speaking on RTÉ's This Week, Peter McLoone said there was no time frame from the Taoiseach or the Tánaiste for the appointment of a new board, but that this was something to be clarified early next week.

He said the present board would co-operate completely with the transition.

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Mr McLoone also defended the board's actions and said it had dealt with any issues that came before it and takes responsibility for anything that happened while it was in office.

Dont be at yourself · 13-09-2009 12:57pm

Will this affect FÁS girl?

MagicMarker · 13-09-2009 12:59pm

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

Will this affect FÁS girl?

She may have to take a pay cut, which means she'll have to buy less clothes.....

Everyone's a winner.

galwayrush · 13-09-2009 12:59pm

I bet it won't affect their fat over inflated pensions.:rolleyes:

AnonoBoy · 13-09-2009 1:00pm

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

Will this affect FÁS girl?

Only in the minds of the filthy pervs of boards.ie

She's been tainted forever for me after appearing in The Roaring Twenties.

Gack!

dr.bollocko · 13-09-2009 1:06pm

\o/

Professey Chin · 13-09-2009 1:08pm

dr.bollocko wrote: »

\o/

Vagina?

dr.bollocko · 13-09-2009 1:10pm

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Vagina?

Close enough.

Professey Chin · 13-09-2009 1:11pm

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Close enough.

Chocolate starfish?

sdanseo · 13-09-2009 1:13pm

MagicMarker wrote: »

Well what do you know, something good is going to happened!

Will a new board really make a difference?

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0913/fas.html

That's what happens when you waste €1.2m. Good riddance to them and all the other civil servants who think they can throw money at anything and everything.

galwayrush · 13-09-2009 1:17pm

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Vagina?

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Close enough.

No such thing as close enough...............
That little difference in location means a lot:eek:

Mrmoe · 13-09-2009 1:18pm

I'd prefer to see them taken out back and whipped.

galwayrush · 13-09-2009 1:23pm

Mrmoe wrote: »

I'd prefer to see them taken out back and whipped.

Don't bother, they would probably find some loophole and end up claiming expenses for the whipping.:rolleyes:

Professey Chin · 13-09-2009 1:24pm

galwayrush wrote: »

Don't bother, they would probably find some loophole and end up claiming expenses for the whipping.:rolleyes:

I can claim tax back from my fetishes?
Nice :cool:

T-Square · 13-09-2009 1:25pm

MagicMarker wrote: »

Well what do you know, something good is going to happened!

Will a new board really make a difference?

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0913/fas.html

At least someone is resigning,
that's a first for this country.

Nothing to say apart from, there are a lot more resignations to come.

dr.bollocko · 13-09-2009 1:27pm

Shame on them tbh for how they carried on. They're gone but a resignation means little. Money squandering oafs. The govt. didn't even oust them. Just let them be. That's sickening.

Morlar · 13-09-2009 1:29pm

I think these are the 'first green shoots of recovery' right there. Next up the HSE.

Beechman · 13-09-2009 1:35pm

Mary Coughlan should have sacked them first ! They will probably walk away with a pay-off and a nice big pension!!!!!

galwayrush · 13-09-2009 1:36pm

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Shame on them tbh for how they carried on. They're gone but a resignation means little. Money squandering oafs. The govt. didn't even oust them. Just let them be. That's sickening.

They will continue to carry on the same way because all of them will have a nice fat pension waiting for them as well as possible other top end jobs this current Government is famous for dishing out to their cronies.
No one gets punished for incompetence here, they do however get well rewarded for it.:(

deadhead13 · 13-09-2009 2:29pm

Instead of sacking Ex-FAS chief Roddy Molloy for lavishing tax payers money on himself and the fact that he was the one overseeing the fiasco that we now know FAS is, Mary Coughlan and Brian lenihan decide instead to bump up his pension by 1.4 million euros to ensure he goes queitly. Banana republic, septic isle.

zAbbo · 13-09-2009 2:30pm

I thought the board were up for election in 3-4 weeks anyway, this seems like a token gesture.

I'm sure all will keep their pension

Biggins · 13-09-2009 4:01pm

Bunch of scape-goats.

The amount they sqandered away is small fry to what the TD's cost us daily with their many perks and expences.
- Yet we don't see them resigning.

Once again proving its one rule for them and another for others completely.

lostexpectation · 13-09-2009 5:05pm

government are /o\'s

thomond2006 · 13-09-2009 5:25pm

Pic of FAS Girl anyone?

ScumLord · 13-09-2009 5:54pm

sdonn wrote: »

That's what happens when you waste €1.2m. Good riddance to them and all the other civil servants who think they can throw money at anything and everything.

That 1.2mill was only in one small department of FAS, the fact their resigning now makes me wonder if when people go looking into the other departments their going to find huge wastes of even more money. By then the board will be long gone and won't have to answer for any of it. They'll just get off scot free with another big chunk of tax payers money in their back pockets.

stovelid · 13-09-2009 6:01pm

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Close enough.

Childbirth?

DublinWriter · 13-09-2009 6:02pm

For 'resigning' read 'getting out of dodge city'.

They're 'resigning' in the same way our ex-financial regulator and Michael Fingleton did.

stovelid · 13-09-2009 6:06pm

It will probably transpire, to great embarrassment, that they are actually re-signing improved, lucrative contracts.

13-09-2009 7:01pm

Hopefully this will be the start of many resignations!

ejmaztec · 13-09-2009 7:07pm

Bolt, stable door, missing horse?

trout · 13-09-2009 7:29pm

Remember how a certain high-profile public figure retired there a few years back, just ahead of the tidal wave of septic, drivelly bilge ? Hmmmm.

Are these guys duty-bound and moved by honour to resign ? Or are they getting out of the way of another tidal wave ?

How much will it cost to retire them, and then hire new, squeaky clean alickadoos ?

squod · 13-09-2009 9:19pm

Am I missing something, they got the choice to resign.

Have we all lost our collective minds, why aren't these fukkers in jail right now. They stole from the boss (us), now they're allowed leave like scolded children. This is the worst news ever. It's a free for all on your pockets.

deadhead13 · 13-09-2009 10:26pm

squod wrote: »

Am I missing something, they got the choice to resign.

There was no way Cowen was going to demand the board resigns because the exact same charges of incompetence and squandering taxpayers money could legitimately be levelled at him and his entire cabinet. I also can't see a hell of a lot of difference between Roddy Molloys behaviour and that of John O'Donoghue.

Biggins · 13-09-2009 10:34pm

deadhead13 wrote: »

There was no way Cowen was going to demand the board resigns because the exact same charges of incompetence and squandering taxpayers money could legitimately be levelled at him and his entire cabinet. I also can't see a hell of a lot of difference between Roddy Molloys behaviour and that of John O'Donoghue.

Exactly. He couldn't say "your fired" when he knows that his own FF mambers are at exactly the same thing day in, day out as well as the Independents supporting him.
He would have to fire them if he was to apply the same principle - and he isn't going to shoot himself in the foot by doing that - so they're pressured to resign from another subtle in-direct direction.

I wonder what back-room promises was made, not to mention the nice leaving pensions they will get.

Max Power1 · 13-09-2009 11:34pm

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Shame on them tbh for how they carried on. They're gone but a resignation means little. Money squandering oafs. The govt. didn't even oust them. Just let them be. That's sickening.

should have been sacked not "allowed to resign" imo

Biggins · 14-09-2009 10:37am

As said above, FAS is small fry compared to the bigger boys.
Need proof? See: http://www.unitedpeople.ie/greed.html

walshb · 14-09-2009 11:56am

Beechman wrote: »

Mary Coughlan should have sacked them first ! They will probably walk away with a pay-off and a nice big pension!!!!!

Absolutely, but the legal eagles have it all sewn up and everything
is in their favor. No wonder Molloy was bought off there with
his 1 million bonus to his pension. Nobody can sack nobody
here because everyone is in on the act and they are
all watching their backs and each others backs, all at our
bloody expense. It all boils down to a complete lack of shame.
It doesn't exist anymore in Ireland

FÁS Board to Resign.

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