From top Mayo County Counci, chamber and Galway County Council chamber
Staying in tonight?
RTÉ Investigates: Council Chamber Secrets.
Jilly McDonough writes:
RTÉ Investigates has spent the last six months examining how local authorities go about their business. RTÉ Investigates uncovered systemic failures, which enabled false accounting and employee fraud. Broadcast tonight, RTÉ Investigates: Council Chamber Secrets looks at how reforms promised after the tribunals of inquiry never materialised.
RTÉ Investigates examine a wide number of counties and examples include:
In Limerick…
€1.8 million worth of transactions involving Limerick City and County Council and Irish Water are under Garda investigation following the dismissal of a council employee.
In Mayo…
Gardaí are investigating the discovery of forged building compliance certs held by Mayo County Council in relation to its new €11 million swimming pool in Castlebar.
In Galway…
RTÉ Investigates reveal how the discharge of untreated sewage from the Council-owned public toilets prompted an ethics investigation into allegations of gross misconduct.
In Cavan…
The council has refused to release an internal inquiry report into the generation of false invoices citing a Garda investigation, which An Garda Siochana said it was not aware of.
RTÉ Investigates: Council Chamber Secrets tonight at 9.35pm on RTÉ One.
Council chamber secrets: Misconduct, falsehoods and waste (Conn Corrigan, RTÉ)
GCC/MCC
Corrpution and incompetence might not come as a surprise, but they explain a lot about how our towns and countryside are managed,
I guess you’re going to have to praise RTE for this?
“guess you’re going to have to praise RTE for this?”
Who exactly?
RTE Investigative journalism has always been generally quite good.
Its a shame the other 90% of programming is utter drivel. They could do with investigating some of the “mis-truths” spoken on Claire Byrne over the past 24months
This is a national problem
I am sure if the HSE WAS GIVEN A FULL VAT audit we would find billions missing
A full audit is needed for the national maternity hospital
And people go on about haughey era brown paper envelopes
Time white collar crime was properly investigated by an external agency to act on fraud
All those untouched expenses
If you ran a business in the manner of government you would be in jail and your home taken off you along with everything you owned
+1
Any sign of the Criminal Investigation into Varadkar progressing? Quite a relatively simple investigation. Why so long?
You know how long for a CAB to arrive
The national maternity hospital needs to be examined also why they decided on an over shape over a far cheaper to build rectangle shape
It’s now over four times the cost of the most expensive hospital ever constructed in Sweden which has double the bed capacity and is twice the size
RTE Investigates has conducted an examination of water, uncovering in the process stark evidence that it may be wet
It’s not the water but the volume poured down the drain financially speaking
Also those quantity surveyors need to be investigated and the reports made public so anyone who needs to employ a quantity surveyor avoids them like the plague
GMIT is a byword for cheating too.