€220,000 on renovating Bertie's office suite.

shoes34

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0316/ahernb.html

no wonder we are in the state we are in if they are refurbishing TDs office at this value - my mortgage is less that €300,000 grant it is in the country but still €220,000 on renovating and refitting an office suite out is disgraceful.

ardmacha

no wonder we are in the state we are in if they are refurbishing TDs office at this value

Hopefully you should use the past tense for this one. This sort of thing should be behind us.

Dannyboy83

I remember the stories about Bertie's make up bill.
It's obscene how these people wasted money.

I think it was Noel Dempsey's who said, in relation to the e-voting fiasco
"Sher, what's €50 million?"

I think we should build a monument to this self-inflicted catastrophe and the excesses of these people, so that we as a nation are never allowed to forget it.

Dymo

Fianna Fáil's John O'Donoghue knew that trick too.

Figures released by the Office of Public Works (OPW) have now revealed that it actually cost more than €100,000 to renovate a small office belonging to the Ceann Comhairle.

The carpets, supplied by Rugs by Design, the first costing €28,3734
Curtains fitted on the Ceann Comhairle's windows cost €11,380,
Office chair supplied by the firm Ergonomics for the princely sum of €1,058.

source: http://www.tribune.ie/news/article/2008/aug/10/a-cosy-office-for-the-ceann-comhairle-at-only-1000/

z0oT

Dymo wrote: »

Fianna Fáil's John O'Donoghue knew that trick too.

http://todayilaughed.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/taxpayer.jpg

ilovesleep

FF had some cheek to blame the nation for partying with the banks, when they spend this kind of money (probably taxpayers money and not banking money) on a fecking office. Surely if they used taxpayers money for this, this is fraud and theft? No way should they have spent the price of approximately half of a celtic tiger mortgage on an office.

GSF

Dannyboy83 wrote: »

I remember the stories about Bertie's make up bill.
It's obscene how these people wasted money.

You should see him without it if you think its waste money! :P

ilovesleep

Why wont people ever protest here in this country? Why aren't people out protesting to get this fcuker into jail? Do people like abuse and exploitation? Ireland will default soon. There is no way people in their right mind will co operate with whats happening here in this country. People will turn to the black economy and cheat whatever system they can. The irish taxpayers are fools. Down and out fools.

The sooner Lisbon quakes and sends us the tsunami we're promised the better. This country is fcuked

sollar

It seems an awful long time ago now that he awarded himself a €32,000 payrise. It really was madness.

I hope the people have learned a lesson from those times. Never to vote crooks like that in again no matter what their spiel.

ilovesleep

GSF wrote: »

You should see him without it if you think its waste money! :P

The only thing that will help his face is petrol and a match

Hawkeye123

If I recall correctly, Bertie`s make up bill was 250,000 euro in one year back in the early naughties. At the time, I believe his girlfriend was a makeup artist or some such. I wonder if there is a connection.

ilovesleep

Hawkeye123 wrote: »

If I recall correctly, Bertie`s make up bill was 250,000 euro in one year back in the early naughties. At the time, I believe his girlfriend was a makeup artist or some such. I wonder if there is a connection.

Holy hell? 250000, for make up? in one year? Where was i? oh yeah i remember now - probably in school to young too vote and too stupid to have a politicial interest.

You very well could be correct. Isn't ray burke a developer mate of bertie? He probably did the job

Ireland needs to bring back execution for this pr1ck. To allow him away free we are a nation to be exploited and abused. I pity everyone with children. What kind of a future are they faced with? A future of exploitation. thats for sure

gigino

Hawkeye123 wrote: »

If I recall correctly, Bertie`s make up bill was 250,000 euro in one year back in the early naughties. At the time, I believe his girlfriend was a makeup artist or some such. I wonder if there is a connection.

and yet people voted ff election after election, + kept them in government, despite all the waste.

I did not.

timbel

sollar wrote: »

I hope the people have learned a lesson from those times. Never to vote crooks like that in again no matter what their spiel.

People do not learn.

2 words - Michael Lowry

ilovesleep

gigino wrote: »

and yet people voted ff election after election, + kept them in government, despite all the waste.

I did not.

More ff spin of blaming the nation.

For whatever reason the 02 and 07 general elections people felt that ff were the best to run the country.

In my opinion, it was due to ignorance when voting. also the older generation which would be the majority of the ff fanbase grew up in poverty stricken ireland and for the first times in their lifes they saw wealth under the ff government but as we now know it was all based on lies and deceit and was unsustainable. Unfortunately the country woke up too late to ff and its all coming together like a complex jigsaw puzzle.

the buck stops with ff for their negligence running the country and for the fraud and theft that they took part in, in government. No one else. ff had a job and responsiblty to run this country and they exploited us.

ilovesleep

Tell me gigino - say for example you work very long hours in a stressful job. you decide to employ a housekeeper to look after your home. Over time you misplace things more often and find it difficult to find things. your mind must be muddled for working so hard. you come home early one day to catch your housekeeper redhanded sticking some of your belongings in her handbag. Are to blame and responsible for her thievery?

hmmm

The behaviour of some politicians (of all parties) is pure Louise XIV, this feeling that the state chequebook is their own. I blame Haughey, the rot started there.

ilovesleep

timbel wrote: »

People do not learn.

2 words - Michael Lowry

Peoples right to vote should be removed from them and a license to vote should be brought in. Driving theory test centres could be used for the job.

rumour

Dannyboy83 wrote: »

I think we should build a monument to this self-inflicted catastrophe and the excesses of these people, so that we as a nation are never allowed to forget it.

There is a very good one in constanz germany on the one side the fat greasy traders...

*Mod snip: picture too big*

On the other the poor....don't have pic for that bit.

Struckme as quite appropriate.

tweedledee

Irish wont protest or similar because for the last couple of hundred years we have been the most subserviant race on the planet.We live by the absolute myth that the Irish are a tough,agressive and hard working people,again a total myth,our own elected polititians know this and our European neighbours know this.I blame the catholic church.Priests had waaaaaay to much control over the people in the past.Look at any country that has a strong Catholic Church control,Philipinnes,Italy,Mexico,Spain etc and you will find very corrrupt government and very subserviant nation.It will take a few decades but Ireland will come good and religion will take a back seat with the polititians.

rumour

tweedledee wrote: »

Irish wont protest or similar because for the last couple of hundred years we have been the most subserviant race on the planet.We live by the absolute myth that the Irish are a tough,agressive and hard working people,again a total myth,our own elected polititians know this and our European neighbours know this.I blame the catholic church.Priests had waaaaaay to much control over the people in the past.Look at any country that has a strong Catholic Church control,Philipinnes,Italy,Mexico,Spain etc and you will find very corrrupt government and very subserviant nation.It will take a few decades but Ireland will come good and religion will take a back seat with the polititians.

I think its a bit more than that. the catholic church did some good and changed us from peasants to a literate nation in less than seventy years. No we find literacy is falling. The catholic church was corrupt because it became cosy with power and then clung to it rather than deal with issues.

When was the flight of the earls?? they abondoned ship and left their people screwed, the aristocracy screwed the people right up to the famine, the catholic church have done it, fianna fail have done it. For all our talk of Irishness our history demonstrates that we do not do sacrifice for others or the common good. We somehow believe once we've climbed the ladder that its absolutely fine to screw other people.

Take for example public sector pay funded by tax and borrowing, its fine for the public sector to pay themselves on average €900 a week while the private sector get paid €600. Those in power think this is fine and are defending a morally inequitable situation because they simply won't stomach the sacrifice for the common good.

Add to that that hardly a job has been lost in the public sector when one in every three men in ireland is not working.

So while I agree with you singling out the catholic church would not be the focus of my ire here although it screwed us also. But remember the catholic church was mde up of Irish men and women.

ilovesleep

I cannot believe people are not foaming at their mouths about this

Aard

I think people are foaming at the mouth. But they'll just repress their anger because they don't have an appropriate outlet for it.