Callelry in new milage controversey

Typhoon. · 22-08-2010 05:15PM #1

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Senator Callely in new mileage controversy
Sunday, 22 August 2010 14:08
Senator Ivor Callely is in the glare of the public eye again over fresh allegations about his expenses.

In a report in today's Sunday's Tribune, it is claimed the Senator received more than €80,000 in mileage subsistence over two years, while he was a junior minister.

According to the report, Mr Callely filed for the maximum mileage allowance of 5,000 miles per month during this post, even though he lived less than three miles from his office.

Poor Ivor, he must've had some driving to do.

he'l be playing the victim again

bazmaiden · 22-08-2010 05:18PM

What a legend

mickdw · 22-08-2010 05:21PM

What kind of system do we have in place when there is nobody who can sack him from his post.

Edit:

Title could do with correction. I thought it was about Minister Dara callery due to spelling

Typhoon. · 22-08-2010 05:22PM

why didnt the civil servants that were processing these claims question it?

galwayrush · 22-08-2010 05:23PM

bazmaiden wrote: »

What a legend

Bertie's a bigger legend, getting tax free status on his autobiography, highly unetichal, but not illegal after he changed the rules.:rolleyes:

Johnny Bitte · 22-08-2010 05:23PM

Typhoon. wrote: »

why didnt the civil servants that were processing these claims question it?

Thats the real question.

How is it even possible for them to claim so much in the first place.

Ghost Train · 22-08-2010 05:23PM

they should make him pay it all back with interest

galwayrush · 22-08-2010 05:24PM

Typhoon. wrote: »

why didnt the civil servants that were processing these claims question it?

That task probably wasn't in their Job Description.:rolleyes:

bazmaiden · 22-08-2010 05:25PM

galwayrush wrote: »

Bertie's a bigger legend, getting tax free status on his autobiography, highly unetichal, but not illegal after he changed the rules.

+1 he is a hero alright

Typhoon. · 22-08-2010 05:26PM

mickdw wrote: »

Title could do with correction. I thought it was about Minister Dara callery due to spelling

sorry mick no can do, perhaps a mod can alter it

mickydoomsux · 22-08-2010 05:28PM

mickdw wrote: »

What kind of system do we have in place when there is nobody who can sack him from his post.

The kind of system that they put in place themselves to ensure they could never be sacked.

moonpurple · 22-08-2010 05:44PM

des omalley was expelled in 48 hours, for 'conduct unbecoming' from fianna fail in 1985 for refusing to vote against a contraceptive bill,

why is ivor callelly still not expelled from fianna fail?

5000 miles a month in dublin, at 30mph
is 8 hours driving a day

FlutterinBantam · 22-08-2010 06:08PM

Learn to spell his name before starting a thread against him.

Gombeen man.

omahaid · 22-08-2010 06:11PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Learn to spell his name before starting a thread against him.

Gombeen man.

I'm confused, gombeen man is your signature?

Royal Irish · 22-08-2010 06:15PM

Not only should Callely be sacked and brought up on criminal charges, but Dermot Ahern should stand down or be sacked also for not acting as minister for justice seeing as fraud has been committed on a serious scale by members of his own party. Some minister for justice he is.

If it was you or me who defrauded our employers, whether we are in the public or private sector we would be brought up on criminal charges. It just goes to show the injustice in Ireland between the different classes.

But whats worse about this whole affair, is the Irish public do nothing about it. We are being screwed left right and centre, and yet we just get on with the daily grind and let those cowboys in charge away with anything. Their all laughing at us.

I say a group of us from boards go make a citizens arrest on Ivor Callely. I'll bring the duck tap.

byhookorbycrook · 22-08-2010 06:18PM

How could anyone rack up €5,000 worth of mileage in a month, every single month of the year?? I'd say there are plenty other politicians with similar skeletons in the closet.

starbelgrade · 22-08-2010 06:22PM

Callely also claimed mobile phone expenses of €3,000 despite the fact that the phone company - which he claimed the expenses were paid to - closed down over a decade before the claims were submitted.

The man is a f*cking thief & a liar.

amcalester · 22-08-2010 06:23PM

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

How could anyone rack up €5,000 worth of mileage in a month, every single month of the year?? I'd say there are plenty other politicians with similar skeletons in the closet.

Its 5000 miles in a month not £5000 in a month.

80k over 2 years works out at £3333.33 (still a ridiculously high figure)

Biggins · 22-08-2010 06:23PM

Jeasus, what next!

I'm so sick of hearing about this mans latest stunt and getting away with it that if I though he would be actually seriously held to account, I'd eat the contents of a boiled sheeps bollox over a bed of two week old rotting dead swill pigs!
...Then I'd scratch my eyeballs out with a six inch rusty nail because I wouldn't trust my eyes for actually seeing him being punished!

PeterIanStaker · 22-08-2010 06:26PM

If Ivor Callely drives himself off a pier, can he claim expenses? One way trip and all that.

Biggins · 22-08-2010 06:28PM

So whats the total so far he has screwed out of the state ...that we know of?

starbelgrade · 22-08-2010 06:29PM

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

If Ivor Callely drives himself off a pier, can he claim expenses? One way trip and all that.

If Ivor Callely died, he'd probably still find some way to claim expenses.

starbelgrade · 22-08-2010 06:34PM

Biggins wrote: »

So whats the total so far he has screwed out of the state ...that we know of?

One Million Dollars.

tommy21 · 22-08-2010 06:39PM

Even if nothing can be done to remove him (which in itself beggars belief), you think the guy would put his hands up and step down. Utter cheek and a disgrace of a man.

Biggins · 22-08-2010 06:44PM

tommy21 wrote: »

Even if nothing can be done to remove him (which in itself beggars belief), you think the guy would put his hands up and step down. Utter cheek and a disgrace of a man.

Not a chance of him stepping down.
He needs the job like life itself.
He is now to heavily steeped in money owed to others that he needs the Senate payroll just to help keep himself afloat and creditors off his back.

tommy21 · 22-08-2010 06:46PM

Biggins wrote: »

Not a chance of him stepping down.
He needs the job like life itself.
He is now to heavily steeped in money owed to others that he needs the Senate payroll just to help keep himself afloat and creditors off his back.

A man who worked in the Pale
Submitted his costs without fail.
Such an enterprising chap,
Must now take the rap,
He's been to Cork once by rail.

(FYI Already submitted it to that Irish Times limerick comp for the enterprising among you

)

Jeanious · 22-08-2010 06:48PM

Just for clarity, here's the map of his house, to his constituency office to Leinster house. 4.4 miles all told.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=1+St+Lawrence+Rd,+Dublin+3,+Co.+Dublin+City,+Ireland&daddr=191+Howth+Road,+Killester+to:Leinster+House,+Kildate+Street,+2,+Co.+Dublin,+Ireland+(Leinster+House)&hl=en&geocode=FeQ-LgMdeyeh_ykP9khfqw9nSDGJ4p1sWjoImQ%3BFUBgLgMdNFOh_ynZ3z4KsA9nSDGQI7pB9maIkA%3BCSa8dDpBqofYFfLtLQMdJ4-g_yGQTzzIJAg5sw&mra=pd&mrcr=1&doflg=ptm&sll=53.380996,-6.230011&sspn=0.116115,0.308647&ie=UTF8&z=13

mickydoomsux · 22-08-2010 06:49PM

Royal Irish wrote: »

I'll bring the duck tap.

I fail to see how water fowl will aid you in this citizens arrest.

SEPT 23 1989 · 22-08-2010 07:03PM

there is a horrible black chasm opening up between the elite and the ordinary
person in this country

i fear for the stability of this state if this continues

Gunmonkey · 22-08-2010 07:07PM

coyle wrote: »

Just for clarity, here's the map of his house, to his constituency office to Leinster house. 4.4 miles all told.

Ok, so assuming he spends 23 days at "work" (maximum # of weekdays in a month), thats 217.391 miles each workday. So half that is roughly 108.6 miles each way.

So he drove to work each day via Navan, by my estimation.

Its just another part of the "Ivor* ther chancer" mosaic, if he can claim it he will. If he needs proof, he forges it. He is mainly to blame, but who the hell was overseeing the expenses all these ministers and senators are racking up?? Is there any overseeing or is it just "Ah sure they be working hard, they earned it lads" in the loony land the politicians live??

And reason he hasnt been kicked from FF is either:

A) he has dirt on them, and best to let him keep his Senator monies and expenses to keep him quiet.

he hasnt doen anything to threaten FF's grasp on law-making or votes, like a TD who went against them. FF know the Senate is just as worthless as we do so couldnt give a damn, as long as it doesnt affect NAMA or whtever they are s***ting on our heads next.

Dardania · 22-08-2010 07:44PM

when i hear about politician fiddling the system, I'm as surpised as I would be if I left a kid in a closed room with a box of matches...much the same comment applies to the how the banks kept unsustainably lending - there was no regulation of them.

They should have a system similar to the states- all expenses be published online: http://disbursements.house.gov/ THere'd be no oblique screwing of the system then....

Callelry in new milage controversey

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