Fianna Fail

To Whom It May Concern,

I wish to formally lodge a complaint under the Ethics in Public Office Acts 1995.

The complaint concerns an article in the Sunday Tribune newspaper on the 22nd August 2010 which outlined the following expense claims made by then junior minister, Ivor Callely.

Claimed 5,000 miles per month in expenses during his term as junior minister at the Department of Health even though he lived less than three miles from his office.

Claimed for the 5,000 miles (the maximum allowed) even when he had been out of the country on government business, including March 2003 when he was away for at least eight days on trips to France, England, Malta and Slovakia.

Claimed the maximum allowed mileage for May 2003 even though he spent seven days in the US during that month.

Claimed for more than a dozen dining expenses at the Leinster House restaurant. These particular claims were questioned by the department but were eventually paid out.

I request that these claims be investigated to clarify what appear to be very serious inconsistencies.

I include below a full reproduction of the newspaper article

Yours sincerely

Anthony Sheridan

28th August 2010

Irish Times

Madam,

May I welcome Senator Callely to the elite ranks of the unbecoming?

Yours, etc,

Des O’Malley,

Merrion Road,
Dublin 4.

The moronic excuses put forward by Senator Callely may seem unbelievable to most normal people but it should be remembered that he’s a member of the most corrupt political party in the country, a party which is populated by the most arrogant, greedy, unethical and traitorous people in the land.

Why should anybody be surprised by his arrogant and brazen excuses when former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, after failing to convince with several fairy tales to explain the source of certain payments, finally two fingered the people, the law and the country with his ‘I won it on the horses’ excuse.

The infamous Flynn dynasty featured on Scannal last night where we were reminded that Irish politicians and in particular Fianna Fail politicians are supremely confident (with justification) that no matter what wrong they commit they will never be brought to account.

Despite being found by the High Court and Supreme Court of encouraging tax evasion Beverly Flynn continued to deny her guilt.

Padraig Flynn and his wife Doherty gave the following testimony under oath to the tribunal regarding the £50,000 received from property developer Tom Gilmartin some of which ended up in a bogus offshore account in London.

How did you and your wife come to hold this account in London?

P. Flynn: I cannot assist the Tribunal.

Did you ever reside at the address mentioned on the account?

P. Flynn: No.

Doherty Flynn

Did you provide that account?

D. Flynn: No.

How did that address come to be attributed to you and Padraig Flynn?

D. Flynn: I have no idea.

Was the address on the form when you filled it in?

D. Flynn: I did not fill that form.

Was the address on the form when you signed it?

D. Flynn: I have never seen that document.

Was it on the form when you signed it?

D. Flynn: I don’t know, I have no recollection of that.

Padraig and Doherty Flynn are now living in happy and wealthy retirement. Their daughter Beverly is back in Fianna Fail and will properly end up as a government minister or even Taoiseach.

Bertie Ahern is making a fortune out of his Dail salaries and expenses despite the fact that he rarely actually turns up for work.

Why should Callely not follow their brazen example when it is obviously the most rewarding route?

Ryle Dwyer has an excellent piece in Saturday’s Irish Examiner in which in outlines the long history of Fianna Fail’s traitorous behaviour.

It’s good to see Dwyer has changed his views regarding Fianna Fail, for many years he was a staunch defender of the party and its criminal leader Haughey.

He ends the piece with a telling sentence.

In the process the party is not only subverting the Constitution but also betraying the Republic and democracy itself.

Irish Times

Madam,

The Minister for Transport, Noel Dempsey, (Home News, August 7th) spent €13,000 to facilitate his recent trip on the Government jet to the MacGill Summer School in Glenties, Co Donegal.

His driver met him to further accommodate his transportation needs. He sees no shame in this and finds his actions easy to defend.

To put this into perspective, one year on the dole amounts to €10,192 (€196 times 52). A few hours of the Minister’s life during which he flippantly charged the public purse at his own discretion cost more than a year’s income of an unemployed person in this State.

A life that comprises week in, week out, scrounging, budgeting and constantly worrying that this is the week you won’t make it.

This is just another action that truly demonstrates the disconnect members of the Government have with the real purchasing power of money and how people are struggling financially in 2010 Ireland. Do they really believe they’re worth it?

Yours,etc,
Caitriona Gleeson,
Gneeveguilla,
Rathmore, Co Kerry.