Claiming expenses for a Toblerone .....

[MadPad]

It’s hard not to feel a slight sense of nausea at the latest tiny revelations from the Moriarty Tribunal.

independent.ie/opinion/analy … 44599.html

They are fucking lawyers, living in Dublin and working in the center of town. charging outrageous fees on a long term public project … yet can’t buy a fucking bar of chocolate without riding the taxpayer for the bill…

Maybe An Bord Snip could turn their beady eye on this kind of waste of public money… new rules… halve the fees, no transport or living expenses within Ireland, receipt for economy flights and 3 star hotels if the bastards have to travel…

Classless scumbags.

[greentree]

This is totally ridiculous. Why are they earning over 2K a day when there are many legal people unemployed?

Just like NAMA, the Govt. seems totally incapable of getting value for money for anything.

[Open_Window]

Here little piggies, nice little piggies I have some nice treats for you, little piggies treats…

[xman]

We need to pay these people more money so they can afford to buy a Toblerone themselves.

Clearly that is not possible on the subsistence wages they’re slaving for.

[superpiper]

From sumbody who was (recently) cursed with filling out expense forms, the scandal is how many hours this shit generates for the employee and employer

the toblerone may have cost €1.00 but filling the expense probably cost €100’s

[InForADime]

Moreover, though Moriarty sat for only three days last year, John Coughlan nonetheless earned €760,000 for 304 working days, at – of course – €2,500 a day. In other words he claimed that he worked 301 eight-hour working days, away from the actual tribunal, when on a five-day working week, and allowing for holidays and weekends, there are only 252 working days a year.

Jebus.

[jake76]

@InForADime

Moreover, though Moriarty sat for only three days last year, John Coughlan nonetheless earned €760,000 for 304 working days, at – of course – €2,500 a day. In other words he claimed that he worked 301 eight-hour working days

, away from the actual tribunal, when on a five-day working week, and allowing for holidays and weekends, there are only 252 working days a year.

Jebus.

It would pay the government to put a CO in his office to make sure he was working

[Open_Window]

Is this one of those subtergfues? No its not a chocolate bar… this fits in to DOB jamming exercises no?

[xman]

Let’s all donate money into a fund to buy Toblerones for these poor lawyers.

The thought of them not even being able to afford a bar of chocolate has me very upset.

[mr_anderson]

@Open Window

Is this one of those subtergfues? No its not a chocolate bar… this fits in to DOB jamming exercises no?

I believe the motive for this piece of ‘journalism’ is far more interesting than its content.

[magoko101]

How can Bill Gates live with himself giving millions to save people starving when these poor bastards can’t afford an effing bar of chocolate… won’t somebody think of the lawyers!!!

We should start a Toblerone, Rolos and Other Treats fund! Let’s just call it TROT.
They can gobble away at it whenever they want then.

[jacobmarley]

@mr_anderson

@Open Window

Is this one of those subtergfues? No its not a chocolate bar… this fits in to DOB jamming exercises no?

I believe the motive for this piece of ‘journalism’ is far more interesting than its content.

Absolutely Mr. A. The fall out from Moriarty is going to turn into one all mighty bun fight if the w/ends opening salvo from O’Brien are anything to go by.

Devastating findings for O’Brien…

[fedorov]

@mr_anderson

@Open Window

Is this one of those subtergfues? No its not a chocolate bar… this fits in to DOB jamming exercises no?

I believe the motive for this piece of ‘journalism’ is far more interesting than its content.

true, the issue is the 10 year long moriarty tribunal and denis o brien doesnt want anyone to believe for a second that lowry helped him in any way to go from bidder number 3 to the eventual winner of the most lucrative contract in the history of the state.

reminds me of

“Bread and circuses” (or Bread and games) (from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metaphor for handouts and petty amusements that politicians use to gain popular support, instead of gaining it through sound policy. The phrase is invoked not only to criticize politicians, but also to criticize their supporters for giving up their civic duty.

[mr_anderson]

And a completely unrelated letter in todays Irish Times …

Madam, – I was embarrassed last weekend to read the coverage of Denis O’Brien’s tribunal troubles in the Sunday Times. A front page article took leaked information about the Moriarty tribunal’s conclusions (not very positive it must be said) and managed to portray Mr O’Brien as some sort of hero, who was battling the tribunal to save the State money on legal fees.

Further on in the paper, there was a full-page spread on the excessive costs of the tribunal and yet further on, Mr O’Brien adorned the front page of the Business section about some triviality or other. What could have been the spur to such embarrassing spin ? Perhaps the Sunday Times is in awe of Mr O’Brien’s recent ascent to control of IN&M ? …

irishtimes.com/letters/

[fedorov]

Vincent Brown etc

Last weekend two of the newspapers that he now controls, the Sunday Tribune and the Sunday Independent, published two self-serving interviews with him, intended to take the “sting” from the anticipated final findings of the Moriarty tribunal on the award to him of the mobile phone licence in 1996.

If his own version of the Moriarty tribunal findings prove correct, they would be a devastating indictment of himself, along with the then minister for communications Michael Lowry, and of civil servants involved in awarding the licence.

If his version is true, he will be accused of the most spectacular piece of corruption ever in this State, with the possible exception of the Irish Hospital Sweepstake scam.

irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0729/1224251574507.html

[jake76]

@fedorov

Vincent Brown etc

Last weekend two of the newspapers that he now controls, the Sunday Tribune and the Sunday Independent, published two self-serving interviews with him, intended to take the “sting” from the anticipated final findings of the Moriarty tribunal on the award to him of the mobile phone licence in 1996.

If his own version of the Moriarty tribunal findings prove correct, they would be a devastating indictment of himself, along with the then minister for communications Michael Lowry, and of civil servants involved in awarding the licence.

If his version is true, he will be accused of the most spectacular piece of corruption ever in this State, with the possible exception of the Irish Hospital Sweepstake scam.

irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0729/1224251574507.html

Ireland’s Berlusconi (in a media sense)

[yoganmahew]

I didn’t know toblerone’s had expense accounts. Anyway, I suspect the way to do it is to fill in the expense form using the Irish version of the name, in Irish, with “bearer unable to sign”. T. O’Blerone for example. I have my doubts as to whether this is ethical. Is there no end to this madness in my own mind?

[Steaks]

Also summed up nicely here.

www.publicinquiry.eu)

[Ireland_is_different]

buying toberones,
yet another pyramid scheme the legal profession are investing in.

[sharper]

We need to pay another lawyer €4k a day to investigate that first lawyer.