Roscommon Fianna Fáil Senator Eugene Murphy
This afternoon.
Oireachtas members sleeping in their cars due to a lack of hotel accommodation in Dublin is not a widespread phenomenon, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.
Via RTE News:
It follows a report in a newspaper that an Oireachtas member from the west of Ireland said he slept in his car after he was unable to find a room.
The unnamed politician (since named) told the Irish Daily Mail he slept in his car twice after repeated attempts to find a place to stay failed.
Mr Martin said that there are pressures on accommodation due to a rebound in tourism and efforts to accommodate Ukrainian refugees.
Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien said he was not aware of the case.
Taoiseach says Oireachtas members sleeping in cars ‘not widespread’ (RTE)
Meanwhile…
Government politicians are given a €120 a night accommodation allowance and Senator Murphy said “out of principal” he would never pay more than €200 a night for a room.
Senator Murphy said has only been able to secure a room for one night in the last three weeks and when he asked if he could book the same for room next week he was told there “was not a chance” as the hotel is fully booked.
See under “processed food”.
Very classy
Brown shoes.
never brown in town
hey that’s my line
Heaven’s in the back seat of my Cadillac.
Any excuse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDvui4L6shI
Big meanie
He should really name&shame that hotel.
Go online and try book a room. Mad prices.
Thing about this though – has he no party colleagues that could put him up on the nights he was desperate? – € 200 a night would be a nice little earner, and you wouldn’t have to give him breakfast either..
I’d love to know where he parked though.
Lidl carpark
Elections have consequences.
He should have gone to Copper’s and just blasted right through.
bet you he still claimed the 120 for sleeping in his car
Interesting ensemble he’s wearing.
It is a 2022 male thing- everything ‘tailored’ and “fitting”- despite BMI.
And the d head on here 24/7 can only comment on an elected person’s image. Tell us again when you are going to get a job?
So there was hotels rooms but none for under E200?
This is horse poo.He stayed up all night.Allowance well spent.
” not a widespread phenomenon”
I guarantee you that it is, lack of affordable hotel rooms coupled with inflationary travel costs are going to ensure that we have far fewer tourists this summer.
For the most part, refugees don’t spend money, definitely not in the tourist sector at least. Decreased revenue will force companies to lay off many low paid workers.
What supports are the government putting in place for them?
a fine figure of a man – you can take the man out of the bog………..
Or in your case One Vowel™ the student squat …
Hilarious – Article 13.8 – if you only knew we chez moi was. Sold the only Apt I ever resided in back in ’94
Fine figure fine cut a fine figure fine oh yeah
He looks like a caricature of a Fianna Fail bogger. Brown envelopes peeping out of the top of his inside jacket pocket, betting receipts and cash winnings hanging out of his back pocket. Therefore, I think he’s full of it. He spent the money on a night of pints, prawn cocktails and sausage rolls.
Better than drink driving
The face of the self entitled living off the state
Maybe the people need to know where the €50 grand plus in subsistence expenses go
A big fat lard ass
It’s his government that has created this mess and maybe by taking in what’s to be 200 thousand refugees and little housing without making the rest of our people homeless has driven up prices as government stood back cheering on price gouging
Hotels are for tourists not TDS or refugees or even the homeless
All the chickens are coming home to roost and hopefully he will be hen pecked out of his job
Lol
You know where he hasn’t been spending it?
Your pub.
Can’t get a drink FFS
Nope
We do not serve politicians with ties let alone those with FF ties or FG ties
He should have gone to the DAIL Bar.
And slept in the toilets and he would not be the first one
That what he did do. Had an all nighter with People Before Profit’s Brid Smith, TD. The love that dare not speak its name. Woke up next morning and has to tell the wife some bs story. Got leaked. Libel laws/ this is code. End of.
Doc
If he did he would look pretty flushed
The sense of entitlement and arrogance [Irish] politicians have and avail of is lost on taxpayers.
He’s bitching about having to sleep in his car while *supposedly* serving the public – the same public who have no where to live due to his party policies, practices and the parasitic nature of Symbiōsis with FG.
We Irish are very masochistic at our expense.
We need new blood.
We need a whole new BS category of pictures of how gorgeous Irish people are at events, etc. Call it:
“The Head on Yer Man”
or
“Look at Yer Wan”
Alternatively, where the gender identification is unclear:
“The State A Dem”