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Scandalous spending on Ambassador's residence in Canada

  • 13-02-2011 10:10pm
    #1
    dixiefly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭


    On page 19 of the Sunday Times today there is a piece saying that the Dept of Foreign Affairs spent €4.4m building 2 new wings on to the residence of the Irish Ambassador in Canada! It has now more than twice the floorspace of the official residence of the Canadian p.m.

    I am gobsmacked....this is crazy even by Irish standards. Who approved this? Sounds like something a corrupt African government would get up to.

    Just checking, I put this in the wrong forum...could mods put it in Politics or the appropriate one. Thanks


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  • #2
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Our wonderful outgoing FF led Government probably realised that a larger embassy would be needed given the amount of our citizens that are now emigrating there because of the extreme mess they made of the economy.


  • #3
    randomhuman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭randomhuman


    dixiefly wrote: »
    On page 19 of the Sunday Times today there is a piece saying that the Dept of Foreign Affairs spent €4.4m building 2 new wings on to the residence of the Irish Ambassador in Canada! It has now more than twice the floorspace of the official residence of the Canadian p.m.

    I am gobsmacked....this is crazy even by Irish standards. Who approved this? Sounds like something a corrupt African government would get up to.

    Just checking, I put this in the wrong forum...could mods put it in Politics or the appropriate one. Thanks

    Well half the country'll probably end up in Canada soon enough, so maybe they're planning to let us all crash on their floor while we're getting our bearings :p


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