Richard Boyd Barrett claims €12,000 for car repairs and travelling 12km to Dail
He has confirmed that he claimed €12,000 last year in expenses for travelling to the Dail from his home in Glenageary, in his Dun Laoghaire constituency – a distance of just 12km.
He said he used the full amount for travel expenses – including his car-repair bills.
“First of all, my car had to be repaired several times because I use it so much. I travel sometimes twice a day back and forth from Dun Laoghaire,” said Mr Boyd Barrett.
Glenageary is right on the Dart line and If Richard lives where I think he does he could practically step onto a train. Pearse Station isn’t far from Dail Eireann either. A yearly ticket, with unlimited travel on the Dart, costs about €900.
I’d call it theft, but calling that cunting hypocrite a cunting thief might not be polite, so I won’t call Richard Boyd Barrett a self-serving thieving cunting hypocrite.
The fact that Glenageary is significantly farther than 12km from the Dail renders every other claim in this story suspect. If they can’t even get the basics right…
Ever feel the Independent is playing you like fiddles?
How much for the journey guv?
What if I gave you half that, how far would I get?
And if I bought two of them would you give me a discount on the second?
My, what a lovely gourd…
I tell you what lets have a new rule on the pin when it comes to dealing with Irish news media. They seem to follow the same formula as was explained to me by a junro in secondary school back in the 90’s, you all must have figured it out now?
Quote the intro and the outro or there abouts… the divil is often an angel toward the end and vice versa.
