Bertie takes €267,000 expenses

femur61

This really takes the p&ss. How these money is awarded and what fools we are to allow it to happen but Bertie has tken the most compared to all the former heads of state.:mad:. His mobile phone bill is in nearly €10,000 since leaving office:mad::mad::mad:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1004/ahernb.html

Maura74

This is really taking the p*ss, no shame whatsoever considering the state of the country and people are losing their homes by unemployment. Surely this can be stopped.:mad:

Cookie_Monster

Is anyone remotely surprised by this though, wouldn't expect any more from him tbh.

jank

But sure, he is entitled to it... :rolleyes:

Improbable

You actually made a typo. It's 367,000

easychair

While I deplore his actions, it is also the fault of the system which lets this happen, and lets or encourages him. In what other country are ex prime minister entitled to claim expenses for their normal expenses?

Crazy Horse 6

Lol what do people expect. We don't jail the elites in this banana republic and they take full advantage with this sort of thing.

Maura74

What makes him entitled to this amount....what has he done for the country to be able to get this money....why is this leech able to carrying taking money like this from the tax payers....

easychair

Maura74 wrote: »

What makes him entitled to this amount....what has he done for the country to be able to get this money....why is this leech able to carrying taking money like this from the tax payers....

That's easy to answer. He is entitled to it because he was a member of the ruling party which made up the rules, voted in again and again by the Irish electorate.

Had the Irish electorate not voted in Fianna Fail, they would not have been in a position to make these rules to their own financial advantage.

Maura74

easychair wrote: »

That's easy to answer. He is entitled to it because he was a member of the ruling party which made up the rules, voted in again and again by the Irish electorate.

Had the Irish electorate not voted in Fianna Fail, they would not have been in a position to make these rules to their own financial advantage.

What is the current government doing about it.....surely the government of the day can change that ruling if they wanted to that is......maybe the current government do not want to this as they will also gain from this ruling when they retire:mad::mad::mad:

Tea drinker

Maura74 wrote: »

What is the current government doing about it.....surely the government of the day can change that ruling if they wanted to that is......maybe the current government do not want to this as they will also gain from this ruling when they retire:mad::mad::mad:

hmmm, not much root and branch reform for sure, I will have to agree with you.

Icepick

This shouldn't be possible in the first place.