Money Saving Tips With Noel Dempsey

magunkey

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http://functioningalcoholic.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/noel-dempsey-derry-air/

changes

Yeah here is a link to the story. Noel is happy to squander 100K... so things aren't changing yet with the Fianna Fail mindset.

http://www.highlandradio.com/2010/08/06/ministers-macgill-address-cost-100000-euro/

AlekSmart

By far and away THE most interesting aspect of this piece of Dempseyism is the fellow`s use,yet again,of the secrecy card.

Mr D sez that he absolutely certainly simply had to have the AirPlane at his disposal so that he could attend a very high-level Gubbermental meeting in the UK about er..well sumtin to do with Air travel it seems.....

Mr D would,of course,love to tell us all about his input into the meeting,but...you know yourself how these things can be commercially sensitive and the commercially sensitive people get very sensitive indeed if anybody goes blabbing their sensitively secret-stuff to the general public.

It looks as if Noel Dempsey is Irelands very own James Bond,dashing around the place doing top-secret stuff,like arranging the finer financial details of a compensatory package for Toll Road Franchisees who need a bit of commercial encouragement to operate in Ireland....The details of that little scheme are,of course,not in the public domain either...cos....they are "Commercially Sensitive"....

I wonder if the UK meeting was about the Irish Government buying out Michael O Leary`s stake in Ryanair.....:)....Perhaps Mr D will confirm or deny that ....

donkey balls

alex if it's not the govt jet he uses its the IAC chopper, there is no need for our govt to have two jet acft companies like this one linky http://www.netjetseurope.com/wps/portal/njecust/netjets?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/NetJetsEU_en/netjets/
can provide last minute charter flights from any major city in europe/north america i would say far cheaper than the IAC do at present.
after all dempsey signed off on a contract for the SAR to be out sourced to a private company why not the use of charter jets?.

also i remember my father telling me about certain toll operators here,and in the unlikely event of them not making a profit the good aul tax payer would stump up the difference.

AlekSmart

I remember my father telling me about certain toll operators here,and in the unlikely event of them not making a profit the good aul tax payer would stump up the difference.

Donkey Balls,your Da was quite correct,with the State "accquisition" of the NTR Westlink facility standing head and shoulders above every other "Iffy","Dodgy" and otherwise fragrant Cabinet decision.

However in this case we need to learn an awful lot more about the State`s contracts with the "New" Toll Franchisees for the likes of the M3 Motorway.
These operators have negotiated contracts with us (The State) whereby we guaranteed them a set level of income and if the traffic flow is insufficient to provide that income,then muggins (The State) will step in and "dig out" the bold entreprenurial risk-taking companies.

However as the details are "Commercially Sensitive" the Muggins family will not be told of the extent and cost of the guarantee they have had imposed upon them by that nice Mr Dempsey and his senior advisors......Bottles of Coloured Smoke sold by Snake-Oil Salesmen is probably the most accurate description of Governmental procedures !!

Head The Wall

We really need to push who ever gets into government next to change back the FOI laws so this skullduggery and thievery can be found out.

This will obviously happen if it's not FF

drBill

Complete hypocrisy. This one really bugs me. While services are being cut left right and centre, and the rest of us are being told to tighten our belts, here we have a minister dragging a car, driver, jet and pilots the full length of the country just to make a waffly speech at a bloody summer school just because he couldn't be arsed taking a taxi at the far end. (The speech, by the way, was about the need to reform the political system, real life-and-death stuff, eh?).

Does he not understand or care how insulting this is to the many struggling citizens of a near bankrupt country? This sort of nonsense would make even Robert Mugabe blush.

And where was our really important transport minister in January when transport virtually collapsed due to the snow?
This govenment are just like the banks, they only care about themselves and their careers, the rest of us can go to hell it seems.

Lloyd Xmas

Noel Dempsey is a first class [EMAIL="w@nker"]w@nker[/EMAIL].
His department issued a statement saying there was no way he could have made it from McGill to the UK in time.

Ryanair then came out and advised that they in fact had two flights that could have got him to London that evening.

This prick should have sat into his own car and drove himself to McGill.
He should than have sat back into his car and taken himself over to Belfast airport, where he could've boarded his Ryanair flight to London. When in London he should have taken the train to wherever he was going.
Every step of this trip should have been taken out of his own excessive wage. Expenses my ho!e. He could've had the whole lot done for EUR 250, instead he decided it best that he should waste EUR 13,000 :eek:

changes

Its important to point out that it is a 2 hr drive from derry airport to glenties according to aa route planner and add that to his flight time.

He could have drove up in 4 hours its not a massive difference.

And to think his speech was about reforms and no doubt included talk of how we need to make savings also.... he would indeed make mugabe blush.

AlekSmart

It`s highly unlikely that any of this will negatively impact upon the good Mr Dempsey`s career enhancement prospects.

The strenuous efforts he has put into keeping the Toll Collection process alive will see to that.

Most of the mainstream Irish political cadre are essentially rotten to the core,with little moral compass available to them to distinguish right from wrong.
This is a cross-party thing and has it`s roots buried far deeper within the mainstream Irish phsyche.

However,since Sean Lemass revitalized and hauled an ailing Fianna Fail belching and farting into the 20th Century it`s higher caste members embarked upon a parallell personal enhancement crusade.

This has enabled entirely mediocre Political entities such as P Flynn,C McCreevey,B Ahearne,Liam Lawlor and a host of supporting (pisss) artiste`s to draw upon their extensive EU based contacts and feather their nests to an astounding scale without actually having contributed anything tangible to Irish life.

And once again it has to be stated that these types will continue to dominate the Irish Political scene as long as the cloth eared and chronically stupid electorate cast votes for them.


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the_dark_side

Noel Dempsey did this to take the focus off the Callely expenses row... it was an act of solidarity towards a fellow FF'er