FAS, the State jobs agency with the €20m-a-week budget, has spent a huge amount of taxpayers’ money on round-the-world business class travel for top executives and their wives, luxury hotels in the US, gifts and other entertainment. A Sunday Independent investigation found that Fas staff have enjoyed top-of-the- range limousines and chauffeurs, gourmet meals and …
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for: ‘November, 2008’
FAS chiefs enjoy a good life
Luxury business-class flights for boss Rody Molloy and his wife, a €7,000 night out in a private dining room at the five-star Merrion Hotel, golfing at exclusive clubs, beauty salons and pay-per-view hotel movies are among the more extravagant costs incurred by top brass at beleaguered state job-creation outfit FAS. After a three-month investigation, Shane …
Bring Broadband Off Backburner
Broadband is still being neglected as an issue by the present Government. Our economic progress will bethreatened even more if we do not invest in solid infrastrusture. Public spending has been grossly mis-directed in the past, broadband would be of national benefit. As our country slips even further into a deep recession, the present government …
FÁS Financial Fiasco
This week I have been inundated with calls, emails and letters from people across the country. Almost all are ordinary people with extraordinary stories of wasted public funds. Lack of accountability and lax attitudes towards tax-payers money has been bleeding the country dry. I will keep fighting to ensure that those responsible are brought to …
Building Societies And Banks Blunder Behind Government
The Senate is preparing to debate on the economy, which will also include the issue of the banks. The banks also include the building societies because they have also been bailed out by the Government. We should realise when we talk about recapitalisation, which will undoubtedly happen very shortly because it will be forced on …
Ice Cold On Planet Denial
BRIAN Goggin came out to play on RTE radio’s Morning Ireland programme last Thursday. The Bank of Ireland boss had been in the deep freeze for weeks. A guy buried in the deep freeze could convince himself of anything. And Brian did precisely that. He told RTE’s Christopher McKevitt that all is fundamentally fine at …