More utter waste of money by TDs

JustAThought

In a country that has to borrow money to change the lightbulbs on the street, I notice fine gael TD's in north county Dublin area apparently can afford to print in full A4 colour " magazines" promoting themselves & pay to have them Distributed door-to-door.

How about spending this money on something worthwhile instead of PR for politicians .

Full colour, a4 size multiple page PR magazines.
Ffs

Specialun

Apt username

Banjo String

Nice work if you can get it.

Lump sum 270k
Pension of 68k p/a.

Sligo County council in 80 million DEBT.

Any wonder the country is in financial meltdown. He should be getting state pension and a clip around the ear. :mad:


http://www.sligotoday.ie/details.php?id=26822

Tiddlypeeps

Don't they have to use their own privately raised money for promoting their party?

Or are they allowed to dip into public funds to pay for that sort of thing?

bgrizzley

SamHall wrote: »

Nice work if you can get it.

Lump sum 270k
Pension of 68k p/a.

Sligo County council in 80 million DEBT.

Any wonder the country is in financial meltdown. He should be getting state pension and a clip around the ear. :mad:


http://www.sligotoday.ie/details.php?id=26822

Now, now, Sam, they wont be long getting out of debt now once they have a tranche of new taxes to rise. Maybe even get a couple of new replacements!

Who need to cut back!!!!!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

The weekly recession thread. I believe there should be a forum dedicated to the recession and anything recession based should be limited to that forum only.

bumper234

Don't worry it will all be forgotten in a week or two just like this one ws

Sinn Féin TD urged to ‘come clean’ over €50,000 use of Dáil printer cartridges

http://www.thejournal.ie/sinn-fein-td-urged-to-come-clean-over-e50000-use-of-dail-printer-cartridges-367908-Feb2012/

bgrizzley

bumper234 wrote: »

Don't worry it will all be forgotten in a week or two just like this one ws

Sinn Féin TD urged to ‘come clean’ over €50,000 use of Dáil printer cartridges

http://www.thejournal.ie/sinn-fein-td-urged-to-come-clean-over-e50000-use-of-dail-printer-cartridges-367908-Feb2012/

Maybe he printed out all those glossy magazines....:pac:

JustAThought

bgrizzley wrote: »

Maybe he printed out all those glossy magazines....:pac:

No -this was fine Gael

BRYAN Is Ainm Dom

The waste of money that these clowns in the oireachtas get away with is unreal, someone mentioned on radio there recently that there is a newspaper contract worth over 60k to the taxpaper where these clowns get newspapers delivered free to the oireachtas, they cant afford to go and buy their own.

Hootanany

bumper234 wrote: »

Don't worry it will all be forgotten in a week or two just like this one ws

Sinn Féin TD urged to ‘come clean’ over €50,000 use of Dáil printer cartridges

http://www.thejournal.ie/sinn-fein-td-urged-to-come-clean-over-e50000-use-of-dail-printer-cartridges-367908-Feb2012/

Why bring that up in this thread? Totally unrelated albeit equally wrong.

SEPT 23 1989

Easy to throw it around when its not yours

Effects

JustAThought wrote: »

No -this was fine Gael

Are you sure? Do you have a copy you can show us? You could be a Fine Fail shill for all we know, trying to stir up anti FG sentiments.

Phoebas

:mad::mad:
They used FULL COLOUR? :mad: The rest of use have to make do with only two or three colours and these ELITE politicians get to use all of the colours they want. :mad: Around where I live many people can only afford black and white :mad:.

And A4? :mad:. Is A5 not good enough for them!!!!!!:mad: :mad:.

Gokei

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

Don't they have to use their own privately raised money for promoting their party?

Whao, whao.. hang on there.. Thats enough sense for now
How are we meant to get all rielled up with you taking the wind out of our sails!!?

Henlars67

SamHall wrote: »

Nice work if you can get it.

Lump sum 270k
Pension of 68k p/a.

Sligo County council in 80 million DEBT.

Any wonder the country is in financial meltdown. He should be getting state pension and a clip around the ear. :mad:


http://www.sligotoday.ie/details.php?id=26822

He is directly responsible for the council's debt.

He is an extremely stupid man who literally hadn't a clue how to do his job. He drew up one totally unrealistic budget after another, which the equally stupid FG councillors voted through every time.

Declan Bree (IND) and Sean MacManus (SF) have been drawing attention to it for years, but nothing was ever done about it.

It's a prime example of how incompetence by high end public servants is rewarded in this country

ColeTrain

Solomon Gray Satire wrote: »

The weekly recession thread. I believe there should be a forum dedicated to the recession and anything recession based should be limited to that forum only.

Boards can't afford the bandwidth

donegal_road

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

Don't they have to use their own privately raised money for promoting their party?

Or are they allowed to dip into public funds to pay for that sort of thing?

its not their own money, or public funds... its money donated to the party by sponsors, and in return some sponsors get rewarded with state contracts.

hansfrei

Is there a page three model on that magazine?

hansfrei

donegal_road wrote: »

its not their own money, or public funds... its money donated to the party by sponsors, and in return some sponsors get rewarded with state contracts.

or have loans written off by the IBRC.

theSHU

JustAThought wrote: »

In a country that has to borrow money to change the lightbulbs on the street, I notice fine gael TD's in north county Dublin area apparently can afford to print in full A4 colour " magazines" promoting themselves & pay to have them Distributed door-to-door.

How about spending this money on something worthwhile instead of PR for politicians .

Full colour, a4 size multiple page PR magazines.
Ffs

Eh because politics and democracy costs money. I'd rather a SF/FF/GF leaflet come in my door then be out on the streets like in Syria/Egypt dying for a vote.

Le_Dieux

SamHall wrote: »

Nice work if you can get it.

Lump sum 270k
Pension of 68k p/a.

Sligo County council in 80 million DEBT.

Any wonder the country is in financial meltdown. He should be getting state pension and a clip around the ear. :mad:


http://www.sligotoday.ie/details.php?id=26822[/QUOTE]

Correction Sam, ONLY if he did something good should he get that..otherwise, he should be tried and locked up...just like the crooked TD's Taoisigh we have had here.

Enough is enough I SAY!!!

Le_Dieux

donegal_road wrote: »

its not their own money, or public funds... its money donated to the party by sponsors, and in return some sponsors get rewarded with state contracts.

Proof please!

donegal_road

Le_Dieux wrote: »

Proof please!

I think there is proof enough somewhere within that link, you have to go in 5 or 6 pages. Its worth a look because it mentions several other slippery deals I hadn't heard of before.

*pm sent with proof

telekon

FF spokesperson for finance Michael McGrath does the same...you know, just to add balance here....

Le_Dieux

JustAThought wrote: »

No -this was fine Gael

Sorry to have to say, but at the end of the day, they are ALL wearing the same tshirt...and thats NOT a joke!

Jester252

First they took our money now their taking our A4 paper. Who will stop these evil TD?

Fukuyama

Who cares?

Any party publications are done with party money.

Celly Smunt

They should've hand written them and photocopied them! :mad:











:rolleyes:

Means Of Escape

donegal_road wrote: »

its not their own money, or public funds... its money donated to the party by sponsors, and in return some sponsors get rewarded with state contracts.

Never

Eoin247

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

Don't they have to use their own privately raised money for promoting their party?

Or are they allowed to dip into public funds to pay for that sort of thing?

You are correct. But people like to complain and blame anything and anybody for their problems.

MadsL

Spending their own election funds, Joe. I mean, spending it Joe, me own mother got one Joe.

Eight Ball

Moan moan moan. The same people say there is no point in mass protests. You get the government you deserve.

Kilgore__Trout

I was listening to a radio show a while back (think last word) and they brought up the topic of the party coffers. Can't quite remember the figure, but for each TD elected for Fine Gael for example, the taxpayer pays a contribution of 2 or 3 times the TD's salary into the party coffers.

Wages + this contribution was somewhere around or over 1/4 million. For each TD. That's when I switched off the radio program, typed "What a wonderful world" into youtube, cranked up the volume and went back to work.

Effects

Phoebas wrote: »

:mad::mad:
They used FULL COLOUR? :mad: The rest of use have to make do with only two or three colours and these ELITE politicians get to use all of the colours they want. :mad: Around where I live many people can only afford black and white :mad:.

You need to move somewhere else if you live where people only use black and white. You are living below Sub-Saharan African standards. I'm surprised you have access to the internet really.

JustAThought

Effects wrote: »

You need to move somewhere else if you live where people only use black and white. You are living below Sub-Saharan African standards. I'm surprised you have access to the internet really.

Clearly another waster. Don't know many companies that allow full colour printing - apart from circulars from wasteful councils such as Fingal - and as it currently seems FG wasters.

But don't you worry about that - Party hacks rarely see waste.

Nemeses

Effects wrote: »

You need to move somewhere else if you live where people only use black and white. You are living below Sub-Saharan African standards. I'm surprised you have access to the internet really.

Why not use email?

No Ink involved. Sorted.

Drakares

Solomon Gray Satire wrote: »

The weekly recession thread. I believe there should be a forum dedicated to the recession and anything recession based should be limited to that forum only.

The weekly pathetic response to a legitimate thread. Because the politicians in this Country are making an utter balls of things so often, we should ignore it because "Sher we're sick of hearing it"..

Well I'm f##king sick of seeing responses like this in every thread that points out corruption and incompetency in our government and it's employees. Just because it's common doesn't mean it should be overlooked.

Ted_YNWA

Nemeses wrote: »

Why not use email?

No Ink involved. Sorted.

I'd find more honesty in an email from the Nigerian National Lottery Agency than an email from FG.