We pay for an Irish Secret Service?

daveyeh

http://www.publicpolicy.ie/where-does-your-tax-go/#middle-link


€0.11 of my taxes from €30,000 salary goes on 'Irish Secret Service'?

:eek:

WTF?

wretcheddomain

You've blown their cover...I'd lock the front door if I were you.

iDave

shhhhh its a secret

clairefontaine

All cloak, no dagger.

antodeco

Maybe its like the stonecutters?

Hande hoche!

Wasn't there a big thread on this?

Raging_Ninja

daveyeh wrote: »

http://www.publicpolicy.ie/where-does-your-tax-go/#middle-link


€0.11 of my taxes from €30,000 salary goes on 'Irish Secret Service'?

:eek:

WTF?

Ha ha I earn more than you! [/Nelson]

Less frivolously, I think its used for surveillance of dissidents, etc

daveyeh

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Wasn't there a big thread on this?

Was there?

RoboRat

Was there?

It was covered up though as they're so secretive.

Larbre34

Yawn, this has come up in the tabloids at budget time every year for the last 15 years. The vote (budget provision) is about a million quid. In 2010 they only spent 700,000 of that. Thats about 10 mid level salaries in the public service or in other words, a nameplate on a door that co-ordinates some information from the Garda and the Defence Forces about a few crackpots

To put it in context, the Guards spend about €1.6 billion and the Defence Forces just under a billion, so the 'secret service' whatever it is, is teabag and pencils money. Dont lose any sleep over it, your tax euro is being wasted in many far more apparent and important ways.

wretcheddomain

Locked that door yet?

Augmerson

Outsource it to the Yanks, they are fierce handy at surveillance so I hear.

rovoagho

Actually we have two, the army runs a second secret service.

wretcheddomain

Augmerson wrote: »

Outsource it to the Yanks, they are fierce handy at surveillance so I hear.

The Irish Secret Service would be so inept that the NSA wouldn't even consider putting them under surveillance.

kneemos

Larbre34 wrote: »

Yawn, this has come up in the tabloids at budget time every year for the last 15 years. The vote (budget provision) is about a million quid. In 2010 they only spent 700,000 of that. Thats about 10 mid level salaries in the public service or in other words, a nameplate on a door that co-ordinates some information from the Garda and the Defence Forces about a few crackpots

To put it in context, the Guards spend about €1.6 billion and the Defence Forces just under a billion, so the 'secret service' whatever it is, is teabag and pencils money. Dont lose any sleep over it, your tax euro is being wasted in many far more apparent and important ways.

Ah but black ops is not included in that.

MadYaker

They are so good that nobody has a clue who they are or what they do.

theblaqueguy

Its being run by the americans
Haven't you heard they are spying on everyone! Its all part of there big plan for global domination! So its not our secret service its their secret service.
Everyone join me in flushing your phone down the toilet so they can no longer spy on us and listen to our conversations!

gramar

I'm surprised that this thread hasn't been removed along with the OP for blowing the whistle.

Triangla

The money is left in a bin in phoenix park every year.

The budget shrank last year as those new smaller bins are in use there now.

wretcheddomain

Triangla wrote: »

The money is left in a bin in phoenix park every year.

Áras an Uachtaráin?

testicle

rovoagho wrote: »

Actually we have two, the army runs a second secret service.

No they don't. They have an intelligence service, G2. The Gardaí oxymoronically also have an intelligence service.

Johro

kneemos wrote: »

Ah but black ops is not included in that.

Green Ops.

kneemos

testicle wrote: »

No they don't. They have an intelligence service, G2. The Gardaí oxymoronically also have an intelligence service.

Harsh.

dodderangler

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Wasn't there a big thread on this?

There was but unfortunately the person who started it hasn't been seen since

Cee-Jay-Cee

testicle wrote: »

No they don't. They have an intelligence service, G2. The Gardaí oxymoronically also have an intelligence service.

Was wondering when someone would use this as an opportunity to Garda bash. Well done ballbag, sorry meant testicle.

Santa Cruz

testicle wrote: »

No they don't. They have an intelligence service, G2. The Gardaí oxymoronically also have an intelligence service.

I think they have you filed under "nutcase of the harmless variety"

Call Me Jimmy

Yes we do. And funnily enough there were entries on wikileaks relating to its operation and even its controversial covert mission statement

wikileaks:irishsecretservice wrote:

2009
...the internal mission statement of Irish Secret Service differs from public mandate...

1. Spy on GAA players
2. ???
3. Profit

Also of interest was OPERATION LIFE OF BRIAN

wikileaks:irishsecretservice:operationlifeofbrian wrote:

The ISS have 'catacombs' full of information on television personality [sic] Brian Ormond. The service were fearful of Ormond's rise through the hierarchy at the national broadcaster, citing his 'clearly psychopathic demeanor' and 'insatiable appetite for control and self-flagellation' as reasons to believe he may just be 'the Hitler of our time...'

Conmaicne Mara

daveyeh wrote: »

http://www.publicpolicy.ie/where-does-your-tax-go/#middle-link


€0.11 of my taxes from €30,000 salary goes on 'Irish Secret Service'?

:eek:

WTF?

No, we don't. They just want us to think we do. That money actually goes to paying the tab in the Daíl bar.

mattjack

daveyeh wrote: »

http://www.publicpolicy.ie/where-does-your-tax-go/#middle-link


€0.11 of my taxes from €30,000 salary goes on 'Irish Secret Service'?

:eek:

WTF?

Imagine if you worked for the secret service and that 11 cents from your salary goes to pay for the salary of the fat cunt who sits beside you and who eats all the nice chocolates out the Roses tin each Christmas.

rovoagho

testicle wrote: »

No they don't. They have an intelligence service, G2. The Gardaí oxymoronically also have an intelligence service.

My mistake. I must catch up on my Phoenix Magazine.

fedor.2.

wretcheddomain wrote: »

The Irish Secret Service would be so inept that the NSA wouldn't even consider putting them under surveillance.

Pretty naive post to be honest

Capt'n Midnight

: You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet ...

You don't think all that money our government wastes is really wasted do you ??

The evoting machines paid for a new listening post on Rockall.