FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3

I've already linked to the commission details but here it is again. You'll note the use of the Commissions of Investigation Act. Only the government can use that and this comes from the Office of The Taoiseach.

Who's Seamus now?

I'm surprised and let down at your Gotcha response, I thought that nonsense was the go to punch line from others. To your credit you at least contribute and make many valid points , some I agree with, others I don't.

10 years ago was not a long time ago and there has to be full accountability. Why should we forget about it and say lessons have been learned? How many lessons have we learned in the past 10 years? How many lessons learned have we have heard from a teacher, namely Michael Martin?

Things not looking good for the governments newest housing crisis https://twitter.com/joey32790157/status/1556608054489227264?s=20&t=-IOUF0NHZgtNCAvxwQJ6Gg

Lowry got kicked out of FG and parties are really not shy about doing such things. SIPO will deal with a lot of the rest, hence the regular embarrassment of TDs overclaiming. Many other things like procurement and even jobs are now rightfully kept out of the reach of politicians so the scope for wrongdoing is far more limited.

Well, there is a link to the terms of reference of the commission from the official government website. Are you claiming that is not factual? Incidentally the draft report suggested that IBRC were probably misled by Siteserv in advance of the sale.

As for the length of time, it is all about an extinct bank and company carry on a dozen or so years ago so not really a lot to learnt from this that we haven't learnt already. You are free to tie that to the government of the day, despite their only connection to this being the eventual setup of the commission.

Yeah, that sale and other IBRC behaviour is being investigated. The award contract was a standard procurement competition from Irish Water and completed in 2013 I believe and there were 9 bidders. Siteserv was sold to him in 2012.

Don't you mean gave it away at a loss 😉

Oddly I'm seeing a pattern emerge in the Hospitality sector, namely Hotels, Sold for a song by Nama, they've barely struggled to pay staff for a few years, Pandemic arrives, Pandemic grants came to the rescue, most staff dropped like bad habits, Pandemic over, No staff, No income, Hang on.......

Same hotels & more just recently & mysteriously changing hands, massive government contracts awarded to "Help" with a new crisis since last March, Gaurenteed income & substantial profits for two years at a 100% cost to taxpayers, it's all sounding terribly familiar and an absolute omnishambles 🙄IMEHO

Nobody buys the line you are pushing that Ireland is really corrupt because in reality its not. Moaners, cranks and spoofers always try that line about corruption in Ireland, yet offer little to no proof on their grand schemes.

Do you have any evidence to back up your 'theory'? Or is it just another one of those pub talk theories?

What line is that, that there is corruption all around us?

The line you seem to bizzarely think doesn't exist or even for a moment believe plausible.