Fine Gael TD sues Dublin Hotel after falling off swing

Shemale wrote: »

Dont be daft, he only goes to airports, the rest of the time he is dining out at the private restaurant in The Dail with his political fwiends, oh fwiend..

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

He stayed at home paying with his new scalextric car.

Idbatterim wrote: »

In Germany, they are addressing the rural broadband problem wirelessly. If it’s good enough for them and that country is far better run with far greater minds. Then I’m sure it’s good enough for this rock!

pinkyeye wrote: »

I did like your post because I think it's half right but I live in a village where my phone can say 4G and I still have to go upstairs to google something and yet walk 100m up the road and I'm flying so I just don't see how wireless is going to work in Ireland. If 4G is no use how is 5G going to be any better?


I could be wrong now because I'm not very techy.

Snow Garden wrote: »

I just saw this headline on the Mail on Sunday.



You really have to wonder how much damage Fine Gael are willing to accept here. The whole story sums up the disdain they have for the electorate.

https://twitter.com/IrishMailSunday?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

MARIA BAILEY ‘KEPT HER JOB AFTER SACKING’
Taoiseach failed to tell Oireachtas of her demotion

SWINGGATE TD Maria Bailey’s removal from the Housing Committee chair was declared a ‘shambles’ last night, after a series of key blunders were confirmed by the Oireachtas.

Despite Leo Varadkar declaring, on July 23, that Ms Bailey was no longer suitable to chair a committee – because of her attempt to sue the Dean Hotel after falling off a swing – the Oireachtas has confirmed that neither the Taoiseach nor Ms Bailey notified it, at the time, of any change to her status.

At that stage it was only announced that Ms Bailey was to lose the chair of the Housing Committee, with no mention of the two other chairs she held – the Members’ Interests

Committee (the Dáil ethics watchdog) and the Working Group of Committee Chairs. The Working Group is a gathering of Oireachtas chairs designed to aide the committee system. The Interests Committee is extremely important. It oversees ethical standards and has the powers to hold disciplinary hearings.

A spokesman for An Taoiseach last night would not say – despite answering other queries from the Irish Mail on Sunday – whether or not Mr Varadkar knew about the other two chairs held by Ms Bailey, when he announced her demotion. But a senior Fine Gael party official confirmed that he personally had not been aware of her membership of the Interests’ Committee, with internal party speculation rife that the other two committees had caught the leadership off guard, leading to a subsequent rearguard action.

Speaking at the time of her sacking, Mr Varadkazr made no mention of the other roles, saying she made ‘numerous errors of judgment in her handling of the matter’ and her ‘approach jars with that of a Government taking action to reduce personal injury payments, claims and insurance costs to people and businesses’. He also said: ‘For these reasons, I am demoting her and removing her as chairperson of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing.’

It emerged this week that

She only officially resigned on August 16..............

...........At that stage, payroll for the month had been completed, and she was paid a pro-rata part of the €9,500 annual stipend for a chair role she was no longer meant to have, the Oireachtas confirmed. When she became aware that she was overpaid by almost €179 in July, she offered to refund the balance.

The Oireachtas spokesman told the MoS: ‘The Oireachtas received no notification from the Department of the Taoiseach that the Taoiseach had removed, or decided to remove, Deputy Bailey from any position.

‘Deputy Bailey did not resign from any Oireachtas position on July 23, nor was she removed from any Oireachtas position on 23rd July or at any other time.’ So she would have continued to receive all correspondence and advantages going with the job until August 16, when her resignation occurred.

She did cede her right to two weeks’ extra pay she would have been entitled to, the spokesman said.

........

Mattie McGrath, a member of the Interests Committee, said last night that Mr Varadkar had presided over a ‘complete shambles’ and handled the affair ‘abominably’.

The TD said: ‘He doesn’t know how to handle situations, he drifts along, it’s all about spin, he’s been found out now, he just can’t handle anything. And Fine Gael now know they picked the wrong man, they should have picked Coveney, because Coveney understands work and meetings and making arrangements.

‘Varadkar is just a showman. They know it now.’

Muahahaha wrote: »

Lol at Mattie McGrath sticking the boot into Leo, you know things have gone to pot when Mattie McGrath comes across as the voice of reason.

So Maria Bailey was on two committees and Leo, her boss, is claiming he didn't know about it. Thats just sheer incompetence right there, how can he be so clueless as to what work his own TDs are doing?

Muahahaha wrote: »

The article says she offered to pay it back but doesnt say that she actually did pay it back. More shenanigans from Maria, she has been caught offside yet again. She also didnt resign until August 16th despite Leo telling us all that she resigned on July 23rd.

Suckit wrote: »

Here is the paper for anyone that hasn't read it - https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/the-irish-mail-on-sunday/textview

Written by a FF senators Spouse, but nothing in it incorrect.