FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3

Apologies for the delay, I was at the beach.

The Charlie I referenced was the Charlie from Sunny in Philadelphia as per your picture 😁 It does sound like you are now admitting the Irish government is corrupt but not as corrupt? When FG took power in 2011 they had no opposition. FF were disgraced and quietened. FG could effectively do what they wanted. Despite the New Politics promises, thats exactly what their politicians did (let me know if you want the list).

Anyhoo, in terms of the corruption (and planned privatisation) surrounding the setup of Irish Water...yes I would love to see a meaningful investigation into all of it. Not a typical FFG sham commission/inquiry that would take 10 years and be lucrative to the legal friends. I mean a real no nonsense independent inquiry.

Reminder: Despite the public funding to the tune of €1.4bn in 2021 — the utility is exempt from audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General, the State’s accountant, with private consultants Deloitte instead doing the honours since 2014.

This what I would like investigated;

• Setup costs 180m estimated, 1.4bn actual
• The spend on consultants (including the lies about this spend at the oireachtas committee - he said 50m, it was 86m at the time)
• All IW contracts and procurement processes (obviously including Siteserv)
• Tierney getting the IW job despite the abject failure of Poolbeg and Greyhound while at DCC
• The RPS connection/corruption/cronyism (Tierney - Grant - Arnett - Family job)
• Tierney's pension deal
• The IW bonuses-for-all despite the overspends and delays
• The missing minutes with Hogan meetings
• Hogan getting a sweet EU job despite the abject failure in IW
• The Privatisation agenda reported by Minister Fergus O'Dowd (FG)

Could you ask your FFG friends to arrange this and provide a report on it? The climbdown was spectacular (fair play to the Irish people!) but we never got answers to these questions.

100%

O'Dowd's allegation was a speech in the Dail during the Water Services Bill debate. It needs to be investigated.

FG rewarded Trickle Hogan's failure in IW with a job paying 340,000 Euros per year before significant expenses. Thats New Politics.

As soon as he went to Europe he wouldn't even entertain questions on IW.