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Kerching Féin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyk6hLK8WxQ Staying in tonight? Part one of a two-part ‘exposé’ of expenses claims made by MLAs [Northern Ireland Assemby members] by BBC Spotlight goes out on BBC One...
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Enemies Of The Lease Process
Last night on BBC One, Spotlight’s Mandy McAuley investigated the use of public money to pay the rent of constituency offices of MLAs including Arlene Foster (DUP), Ross Hussey (UUP) and Sinn Féin...
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Who’s Phoning Kenya?
Nobody can stop them. A TD or Senator has run up significant bills by making dozens of expensive calls to a single African number yet confidentiality rules prohibit the Oireachtas from finding out who...
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Kole Me Maybe
Michelle Mulherin and Danson Kole Last week RTÉ’s Ken Foxe reported that a TD or Senator ran up a €2,000 bill in calls to a mobile phone in Kenya. The person wasn’t identified as confidentiality rules...
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How Much?
Ken Foxe, for the RTÉ Investigations Unit, has created a database of ministerial pay and expenses from March 2011 until the end of December 2014. It follows a database that Mr Foxe created in January...
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“What’s In It For Me?”
Your local representative. On the take. Laura Fitzgerald writes: The programme will reveal the extent and nature of breaches [of ethics legislation] across the political system. As a result of RTÉ’s...
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Nothing To See Here
From top: Information Commissioner Peter Tyndall with President Michael D Higgins and Labour’s Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin on the day of his appointment in December 2013;...
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The Mileage Of Shame
From top: Frank O’Rourke TD; Mr O’Rourke’s journey from Celbridge, Co Kildare to Leinster House, Dublin 2 according to Google Maps. Intrepid expenses hound Ken Foxe writes: A Newly-elected TD is being...
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Crazy Like A Foxe
From top: Part of a letter sent from the Office of the Information Commissioner to Ken Foxe and Mr Foxe You may recall how, back in December 2014, journalist and Dublin Institute of Technology...
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Outfoxed
Minister Brendan Howlin didn’t seem to think mileage, expenses or attendance records were “private papers” pic.twitter.com/Z7FK4sFTjh — Ken Foxe (@kenfoxe) August 10, 2016 A clip from a meeting of the...
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Stop The WordPress
We need to talk about Senator Norris’s expenses claim for “Website Design & Online Services”. He claimed 2018 – €29,459.41 2017 – €19,382.39 2016 – €11,881.74 2015 – €10,792.96 Someone is...
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The Man Who Wasn’t There
Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae This morning. RTÉ Investigates analysed official attendance records published by the Oireachtas, together with TD voting records, to find instances where TDs signed in...
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Cheating Us All
Leo Varadkar (left) launching his ‘Welfare Cheats Cheat Us All’ campaign, when he was Minister for Social Protection in May 2017; Fine Gael TD Dara Murphy (right). In 2017, Fine Gael spent 200k on a...
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Doctor, I Think I’m Bilocating
Keith Swanick as a GP (left) And as Fianna Fail Senator and his voting record – the poorest in Seanad Eireann by some distance Further to an RTE Investigates investigation into missed votes – and...
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The Meeting Took Place But Never Happened
From top: Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe; Ken Foxe Ken Foxe writes: Some time ago, a group of eight junior ministers went complaining to Minister Paschal Donohoe that the expenses they are...
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Supports Of Kings
Former taoisigh, from left: John Bruton, Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen at a Brexit conference in 2018 One from the archives: Leo Varadkar approves €300,000-a-year plan to restore “supports” for former...
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