Will fiddling TDs, Senators and Public Servants be jailed?

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Former UK Environment Minister Elliot Morley joins the jailbird ranks of public servants found guilty of fiddling expenses ...... what chance the same here in Ireland? And keep the swearing to a minimum please!

Refugee from RealLife

At a guess no. They will have to wait till they are caught without a TV license.

tonycascarino

Of course not. White collar crooks rarely/never get put away in this country. Great country to be a criminal.

AckwelFoley

oh fiddling expenses.. erm.. yea.. kill'em.. dam fiddlers..

LimeTime

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..................................................NO

Pauleta

Corrupt TD's, Senators and Public servants wont be jailed. Theives, violent thugs and drug dealers wont get jailed either. Welcome to Ireland: The most liberal justice system on the planet.

Owenw

Pauleta wrote: »

Corrupt TD's, Senators and Public servants wont be jailed. Theives, violent thugs and drug dealers wont get jailed either. Welcome to Ireland: The most liberal justice system on the planet.

So how come all the prisons are overflowing? who's left?
TV licence dodgers?? Jaywalkers? Cyclists???

PeterIanStaker

The people who deprived Ireland of its economic sovereignity and independence will never see the inside of a jail cell. And the kind of stuff they got up to would make J.R. Ewing blush.

They are the kind of plankton that grew up around the Dail and the Race Tent like viruses in a petri dish, where the cutehoor is rewarded and even admired by the forelock - tugging peasants/voters/journos.

They have the right idea in America where Bernie Maddoff was sent to prison.

Killer Pigeon

Of course not, fiddling is natural amongst men - in fact most people here are probably guilty of that.

Gunmonkey

Refugee from RealLife wrote: »

At a guess no. They will have to wait till they are caught without a TV license.

I think one of em must have been, they are drawing up plans to abolish the TV license now. Cant be jailed for something that dont exist

Craebear

Your honour, that money was just resting in my account.

sdanseo

See in the UK when a politician does something wrong, the police arrest them and they go to court.

Here, we pay a tribunal €100 million over a decade and a half to produce a report that is not legally binding and cannot be admissable as proof that the politician did anything wrong.

Great system, isn't it!

PeterIanStaker

Craebear wrote: »

Your honour, that money was just resting in my account.

Shur Bertie didn't even have a bank account. :rolleyes:

bigneacy

That would be justice. So, No.

easyeason3

No.
Ironically though if any ordinary Joe on the street even did half of what they did then ordinary Joe would be locked up without any tribunal.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

No, in lieu of a prison sentence or fine, they will recieve a massive pension and some sort of "thank you" bonus of anything up to 3 million as a lump sum. Some of them will have state cars, senior gardai escourts and the likes for the rest of their lives and when they die they will get state funerals, and the funny thing is, thousands of people will attend.

The fiddlers are protected by bigger fiddlers of previous times.

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Do I detect a hint of scepticism here?