Gym for Irish Water staff at taxpayers' expense

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MORE than €55,000 of taxpayers' money has been spent on a state-of-the-art gym for Irish Water staff, the Sunday Independent can reveal.

The massive spending was this weekend described as "scandalous" at a time when hard-pressed families are being forced to hand over hundreds of euro just to turn on the taps in their homes. The Government will demand that households cough up a minimum of €240 annually when the controversial new water tax is introduced next year.

The charge has caused widespread outrage among cash-strapped families and saw the Coalition parties take a hammering at the recent elections. Now it has emerged staff working for the State company tasked with collecting the new tax have been treated to a fitness centre in their headquarters in Dublin City Centre. Employees hoping to work out before they leave the office on Talbot Street will be charged a cut-price rate of just €20 to join the gym. If staff joined Ben Dunne's gym on nearby Jervis Street they would be forced to pay €179 for a year's membership.

People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett described the spending by the agency responsible for collecting the controversial new water tax as "scandalous".

Source: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/taxpayer-pumps-out-55000-for-a-gym-at-irish-water-30337275.html

Cabaal

Old news is old

News story is dated in June 2014...

Also atleast if your are going to create a thread add your own view and don't just copy n paste a story, its lazy as hell

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They had a "Laughter Yoga" seminar too for €250.

Haha - class.

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