“Transparency”: 26-year-old Fianna Fáil TD Albert Dolan spent 2 years creating a Government payment’s tracker so the public can more easily scrutinise how taxpayer money is spent across Departments.
“The latest shameful waste of taxpayers’ money.”
“Did the previous government deliberately sit on its findings?”
The bike shed story is about as clear an indication as any voter could hope to have about how the present system works, and how those responsible for managing it have managed it.
“Let’s cover everybody’s ass!…But for the people pulling up the cash, we have no respect for them”: Independent TD Marc MacSharry grills members of the OPW over the infamous Leinster House bike shed, and the agency’s general use of taxpayer funds.
If you are looking for any idea of how this project came to be, then you will not find it in the report issued by the OPW this morning.
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Denied that the investigation is taking a long time.
A week after the €336k Leinster House bike shed story emerged
Blamed “capitalists” for the waste of taxpayer funds.
You might argue – might – that €350,000 is an amount of money that should be below the notice of Ministers, but you’d be making an argument that only an idiot should believe.
Bigger is not necessarily better when you’re dealing with taxpayer money.