Dublin Port Company's expenses scandal

18-06-2019 11:00PM

3DataModem wrote: »

Business class. Flew to LA last year for 4,500, so 5,500 not out of the question.

If the cost of business class is 5 or so times the cost of an ordinary ticket, why are these people indulged when it comes to using our taxes for such a wasteful and unnecessary expense?

Why, after all the astonishingly ugly expenses' scandals 10 years ago, has no Irish government simply said "economy flights" and "standard hotel rooms" for everybody flying at the state's expense (I can understand on security grounds the Taoiseach of the day not being economy, but not the rest of the hangers-on.)

22-06-2019 12:16PM

Deleted User wrote: »

It does as a measure of the greed involved in this monopoly. It seems that Éamonn O’Reilly 'has a pay and pension package worth €359,000' and on top of this he 'spent a total of more than €90,000 in expenses on his credit card during 2018, much of it on foreign travel for himself and his management team.'

And, again, is he, like every other public servant, paying @ 60% tax on everything above €33,800 of that colossal salary? Or, as DPC is a state-owned commercial company, does he have a special 'consultancy' arrangement where all that money is paid to a company or other entity which he set up to minimise his tax liability? I'm not seeing much openness and transparency here, but there are very, very many red flags regarding Dublin Port Company's culture when it comes to "expenses"/spending our taxes.

I think there's enough things to complain about at DPC without just making up stuff off the top of your head.

Dublin Port Company's expenses scandal

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