Taoiseach outlining the story so far on IBRC, and how Cregan has decided to publish his determinations. Online at https://t.co/ZqZnj91geI
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 10, 2015
Enda: Cregan and AG say it would be preferable for the Govt to receive Cregan’s interim report before deciding on follow-up actions #dail — Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 10, 2015
Enda hopes Cregan’s interim report will be submitted “at the earliest possible date” #dail — Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 10, 2015
Taoiseach follows Noonan in stating that the Dept of Finance documents, although privileged, were sent over in unredacted form anyway
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 10, 2015
So it then would seem the Dept sent everything it was asked for, in full, but its mere mention of privilege led Cregan into his legal spiral
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 10, 2015
Taoiseach confirms Cregan made prior contact with Dept officials about his problems and was asked to put them in writing, thus Friday letter
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 10, 2015
Previously: Creatures Of The State
Watch the proceedings live here
God be with the days when Christy Moore would instantly write a hit song on the subject. Gap in the market here, lads.
“I can’t believe the bile that comes out of your mouth”
Corruption is endemic in Public Administration in Ireland.
That must be what’s driving record growth in the economy: all those multinationals come for our generous tax arrangements but stay for our endemic corruption.
“Record growth”
No it isn’t and the growth is not widespread either. Loads of already wealthy just availing of tax breaks.
Oh my gawd! Someone should warn the people! Mr T has cracked it!
*waits for all the money to disappear*
Potato, potahhhto. What give you pleasure in this life? Apart from Snickers bars and not having to get on planes.
I bet he enjoys a spliff
you should try India Topsy. Or Africa. Or most places outside of the ‘west’.
You don’t know corruption.
Oh you’re mad ’cause I burgled your house?
How dare you?
Seriously, where do you get off?
What gives you the RIGHT?!
HAVE YOU EVEN *SEEN* THE CRIME RATES IN ADDIS ABABA?!
By all means continue to excuse the continued abuse of words like ‘endemic’
I think you’re the one confusing ‘endemic’ with ‘epidemic’.
Endemic just means Ireland is a place corruption really feels at home.
So because it’s worse in other places the corruption in Ireland is acceptable?
No, silly. The point he’s making is that we’d all feel better about it if we pretend we should be benchmarked against Ethiopia and Yemen, and not the rest of western Europe.
But we might be better at dealing with it if we stopped pretending we are uniquely bad or uniquely human.
Next door, the Chilcott Inquiry into the Iraq still hasn’t published its findings. The historic child sex abuse investigations look like they are being slowly dismantled.
Almost all the big German firms (Siemens, VW, have been implicated in multiple different & far-ranging corruption / cheating scandals & all retain massive political influence in Germany. Merkel’s mentor Helmut Kohl was revealed to have operated an illegal slush fund (and may have taken bribes) in a scandal in which Schauble was also implicated. Did he spend even a day in jail?
There has been a whiff of corruption over most of France’s presidents. Chirac was found guilty of a series of crimes, including embezzlement & received only a suspended sentence.
No, it should be looked at and dealt with.
Just not treated like a sun headline
“OH MY GOD EVERYONE IS CORRUPT IN THIS TORRID LITTLE NATION ON THE TAKE”
Which just isn’t true no matter how much you like to tell yourselves.
Transperency International Global Corruption Perception Index 2014
http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results#myAnchor1
Ireland comes 17th (1st is least corrupt) out of 174 countries. We are 9th among the EU-27. We are ahead of countries like the US, Austria, France, Spain, and Italy. Corruption certainly does not appear to be endemic in this country, unless it is in fact endemic across the globe. It is a silly suggestion. Ireland suffers far more from incompetent clientalist and recationary governance than it does corruption.
The main criticism of TI is that by definition corruption happens behind the scenes, also (from Wikipedia)
“data cannot be compared from year to year because Transparency International uses different methodologies and samples every year. This makes it difficult to evaluate the result of new policies. The Corruption Perceptions Index authors replied to these criticisms by reminding that the Corruption Perceptions Index is meant to measure perception and not “reality”. They argue that “perceptions matter in their own right, since… firms and individuals take actions based on perceptions”.”
Is perception skewed by organisations who pay such low tax here? Does it account for the reality for people who aren’t business owners?
This isn’t a gotcha; I’m interested in perception versus reality.
Is that to say the judge is now changing his tune?
I don’t care. They don’t care.
Follow the gravy.
Does anyone really know what’s going on at all at all. ?? This thing is changing like a chameleon.
Tune in next month when FG try to confuse the electorate by running away more.
plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Ok so Fine Gael are in cahoots with your man with the Indo and the water, and government TDs are appearing on RTÉ bemoaning regulation of the rental market in a manner that would make P Flynn blush (I rent out ten houses and can’t raise the rent for two years – you give it a go sometime), but Gerry Adams is still taking orders from P O’Neill. Or at the very least, he has a beard.
I do genuinely think that voting Fianna Fáil is the way forward. I’m pretty certain they got rid of all the bad guys, like Mary Hanafin and Michael Martin… wait, didn’t they?
Try rebranding yourself to Waynette Gluisteaib