The money was forfeited to the State at the end of criminal proceedings.
“Unsustainable”
In the last two years alone, the state will have spent twenty billion euros more than it took in, even with a record tax take.
The Irish Examiner reports that the Comptroller and Auditor General is to reveal that Katherine Zappone, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, returned €60 million to the exchequer last year. This beggars belief. We are constantly told that the persistent failure of Minister Zappone’s department to protect and provide for vulnerable children is because […]