RTÉ’s Prime Time last evening aired a programme on how county councillors can easily abuse the system for their own financial benefit.
It included accounts of councillors claiming for expenses for attending two meetings taking place at the same time in different parts of Europe.
Councillors are allowed claim for expenses that are not vouched.
The programme highlighted the expense sheets of a number of councillors, which clearly show how they entered conflicting and contradictory claims.
A lot of public money swirling around in a large trough.
2 comments:
To call the funding available to support councillors "a large trough" is a clear insult to these elected public representatives. For sure, some have abused the system for their own benefit. It is, however, grossly unfair to tar all councillors with the same brush. By the same yardstick, given that there have been priests (including Dominicans?) convicted of child sexual abuse, could be describe all presbyteries and religious houses as 'cesspits of sexual impropriety".
Occasional Scribbles did not ‘tar all councillors with the same brush’.
It would be grossly unfair to tar all ‘religious houses as cesspits of sexual impropriety’.
Occasional Scribbles was simply reporting on the RTÉ Prime Time programme.
As to the presbyteriate, Occasional Scribbles would come out with hands up and say that the institutional church is in meltdown.
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