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Taxpayer pays 42k Per Month for........

  • 26-09-2016 04:02PM
    #1
    Gringo180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭


    Accommodation for the Irish Ambassador to Japan in Tokyo.
    Scandalous: New report reveals the State is spending the costly sum of €46,000 a month on an apartment for Ireland’s ambassador to Japan.

    According to a recent report published in the Mail on Sunday, it is understood the Irish Government is currently shelling out the hefty sum of €46,000 a month on a premises in Tokyo, for Ireland’s ambassador to Japan.

    The report which states the Department of Foreign Affairs is actively seeking a more permanent solution, also found that the cost of the ambassador’s residence in the Japanese City cost more than double the price of any other property rented by the department last year.

    ..................

    http://theliberal.ie/scandalous-new-report-reveals-the-state-is-spending-the-costly-sum-of-e46000-a-month-on-an-apartment-for-irelands-ambassador-to-japan/

    Heartbreaking stuff when you see such a waste of taxpayers money, especially with the huge increase of homelessness and suicide rates in the country.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    They should just buy a place in Tokyo, that'll be cheaper I'm sure.


  • #3
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    "Cost more than double any other any other property" so there's more than a few people put up in 20,000+ pm accommodation? (Or just any building they rent?.. I've just re read it, so there is actually loads of them. )

    Sounds mental. Very annoying to be pinching my own money, worrying about literally one or two euro here and there, and then the tax money just having some significant percent of it just thrown into the abyss in cases like this. If it was their own money they'd be more careful


  • #4
    Subcomandante Marcos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    You think that's bad?

    We're currently paying the rent for an entire block of offices (Carrisbrook House in Dublin 4) of which only a floor of which is in use, to house the Israeli Embassy.

    Have done for years. €990,000 per year (€82,500 per month!) in rents, which had cost €4,700,000 by 2013 so you're looking at €7,670,000 in the last 8 or so years.


  • #5
    vandriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,481 ✭✭✭vandriver


    Gringo180 wrote: »
    Accommodation for the Irish Ambassador to Japan in Tokyo.

    Scandalous: New report reveals the State is spending the costly sum of €46,000 a month on an apartment for Ireland’s ambassador to Japan.

    According to a recent report published in the Mail on Sunday, it is understood the Irish Government is currently shelling out the hefty sum of €46,000 a month on a premises in Tokyo, for Ireland’s ambassador to Japan.

    Has anyone intimated that this price is out of kilter for that market?
    It would be scandalous if we were paying over the odds in terms of the Tokyo apartment rental market,but as usual the fine journalists at the Mail on Sunday haven't bothered to find out.


  • #6
    Subcomandante Marcos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    vandriver wrote: »
    Has anyone intimated that this price is out of kilter for that market?
    It would be scandalous if we were paying over the odds in terms of the Tokyo apartment rental market,but as usual the fine journalists at the Mail on Sunday haven't bothered to find out.

    Do you honestly think many apartments in Tokyo are being rented at that price?


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  • #7
    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,308 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    You think that's bad?

    We're currently paying the rent for an entire block of offices (Carrisbrook House in Dublin 4) of which only a floor of which is in use, to house the Israeli Embassy.

    Have done for years. €990,000 per year (€82,500 per month!) in rents, which had cost €4,700,000 by 2013 so you're looking at €7,670,000 in the last 8 or so years.

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/forfas-pays-out-47m-to-rent-empty-premises-224637.html

    That is pretty nuts alright. What's the reason behind the lack of replacement tenants? Security fears?


  • #8
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    But doesn't that cost include....


  • #9
    Subcomandante Marcos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »
    http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/forfas-pays-out-47m-to-rent-empty-premises-224637.html

    That is pretty nuts alright. What's the reason behind the lack of replacement tenants? Security fears?

    I doubt it's a security issue at all to be honest. Just idiocy of the highest level.


  • #10
    Gringo180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    But sure isn't it all the dole heads fault :D:D

    If people only opened there eyes to the waste of tax payers money on stuff like this instead of slating some people who are unfortunate enough to be on the live register and living a horrible lifestyle, scraping to make ends meat, and in a lot of cases through know fault of there own :rolleyes:


  • #11
    snotboogie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,921 ✭✭✭snotboogie


    It is scandalously priced but Irish Ambassador's residences host functions numerous times a week. Their residences are not just for housing the ambassador and his/her family.


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  • #12
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    ....Godzilla insurance?


  • #13
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    You think that's bad?

    We're currently paying the rent for an entire block of offices (Carrisbrook House in Dublin 4) of which only a floor of which is in use, to house the Israeli Embassy.

    Have done for years. €990,000 per year (€82,500 per month!) in rents, which had cost €4,700,000 by 2013 so you're looking at €7,670,000 in the last 8 or so years.

    Could we not put a load of homeless people in the remainder of the building to give them ah ... security.:D


  • #14
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    It's not like the ambassador can couch surf or airbnb it whilst he's there.


  • #15
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Wonder what his monthly bill is...


  • #16
    Clarebelly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 250 ✭✭Clarebelly


    snotboogie wrote: »
    It is scandalously priced but Irish Ambassador's residences host functions numerous times a week.

    I'm afraid to ask what they are spending on Ferrero rocher......


  • #17
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Good grief, one taxpayer is paying out 42k a month? Poor bugger. S/he should probably seek legal aid.


  • #18
    minikin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,977 ✭✭✭minikin


    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    You think that's bad?

    We're currently paying the rent for an entire block of offices (Carrisbrook House in Dublin 4) of which only a floor of which is in use, to house the Israeli Embassy.

    Have done for years. €990,000 per year (€82,500 per month!) in rents, which had cost €4,700,000 by 2013 so you're looking at €7,670,000 in the last 8 or so years.

    Fill the other seven floors with Syrian refugees.


  • #19
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Clarebelly wrote: »
    I'm afraid to ask what they are spending on Ferrero rocher......

    Depends on how much he's spoiling them.


  • #20
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Why is this shocking?


  • #21
    Letree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭Letree


    Hey are you copying my...



































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    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057651956


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  • #22
    vandriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,481 ✭✭✭vandriver


    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Do you honestly think many apartments in Tokyo are being rented at that price?
    I wouldn't imagine that there are many apartments of the right size,in the right location,in one of the most overcrowded cities in one of the most overcrowded countries in the world.


  • #23
    BrokenArrows
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    Grayson wrote: »
    It's not like the ambassador can couch surf or airbnb it whilst he's there.

    He could stay in the 5* hyatt hotel in Tokyo for a month for 20k so im pretty sure they should be able to rent somewhere for less money.


  • #24
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,706 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    But sure isn't it all the dole heads fault

    If people only opened there eyes to the waste of tax payers money on stuff like this instead of slating some people who are unfortunate enough to be on the live register and living a horrible lifestyle, scraping to make ends meat, and in a lot of cases through know fault of there own

    One cost 20,000 a month, the other costs closer to 2,000,000,000 a month...

    but for sure, there should be a major evaluation of value for money with the public and civil service, particularly with regards to public sector procurement. We spend 13,000,000,000 a year on this, I can only imagine the fantastic value for money we are getting!

    Here's a suggestion. No direct public sector pay increases, they can however have a potion of any savings secured from reduced procurement costs...


  • #25
    byronbay2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭byronbay2


    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    You think that's bad?

    We're currently paying the rent for an entire block of offices (Carrisbrook House in Dublin 4) of which only a floor of which is in use, to house the Israeli Embassy.

    Have done for years. €990,000 per year (€82,500 per month!) in rents, which had cost €4,700,000 by 2013 so you're looking at €7,670,000 in the last 8 or so years.

    Yes, the Israeli Embassy only takes up one floor but they have put a few settlers on each of the other floors and claimed ownership of them!


  • #26
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,673 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Deleted User wrote: »
    They should just buy a place in Tokyo, that'll be cheaper I'm sure.

    You try and save for a deposit when your rent is 42k a month.


  • #27
    Gringo180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    One cost 20,000 a month, the other costs closer to 2,000,000,000 a month...

    Hardly a fair comparison considering this is just one of hundreds of examples of the government squandering money.


  • #28
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Clarebelly wrote: »
    I'm afraid to ask what they are spending on Ferrero rocher......

    Its....


  • #29
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Shocking stuff..this money could have gone to the people on the dole and on more social housing

    :)


  • #30
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭gctest50


    Gringo180 wrote: »
    Accommodation for the Irish Ambassador to Japan in Tokyo.

    Scandalous: New report reveals the State is spending the costly sum of €46,000 a month on an apartment for Ireland’s ambassador to Japan.
    ..........

    Heartbreaking stuff when you see such a waste of taxpayers money, especially with the huge increase of homelessness and suicide rates in the country.

    The Irish trade balance with Japan :

    goods exports of €2.1bn in 2012 and imports of €798m while services exports were at €2.7bn and imports of €0.9bn.


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  • #31
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    I did a search and you can get a 230sqm 4 bedroom apartment in Chiyoda-ku (same part of Tokyo as the embassy) for 1.1 million yen a month, which is about 9,500 euro a month.


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