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The Daily PollA YOUTH GROUP will hold a protest on Saturday at the Spire in Dublin to protest against the use of animals in circuses.
The group, Not For Your Entertainment, says Ireland should not allow circuses to profit from animal cruelty. There has already been a ban on circuses featuring animal acts on council land, but they can still set up on private land.
So, we want to know: Should Ireland ban the use of animals in circuses?
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Unvouched expenses. The term alone is enough to make me scrawl my own face.
Arrggh! !
Fair play to this chap dont care what party he is from but most of his fellow councillors are milking it and have been at it for years.
Including Sinn Fein, Socialist Party and most independents.
No one else will sign up if they did they would have to claim medical expenses because of the stress they would be under trying to figure out how to screw the people in other ways.
Imagine if we only had a government that did their jobs..
It must be a hell of a job to get those park dogs to crap in the small bags…….
Chris, You sound like a man who’s employed by a politician
It goes without saying that All expenses must be vouched for. Who the heck thinks it is okay to give expenses to Councillors whether they used them or not. What idiot in the council could say it would be too difficult to administer giving half a million a year of Taxpayers money to Councillors just for the heck of it. Council Officials that said that should be thrown out.
If he doesn’t put value on his work then how can he expect his constituents to value the job he is doing….
Chris, thats. B…s..t i think anyone that refuses their expenses does’t mean they haven’t earned it, there is a load of them out there that don’t earn their wages never mind the expenses so lets say bravo to those who don’t put in for it not mock them.
Can Jobbridge people claim expenses on 188 euro per week plus the e50 which magically covers travel, lunch, domestic bills, parking and all the joys of working 40 hours a week for nothing?
No Chris so someone serving people should not have expenses paid for them.
He must be frowned upon in politics land .
Well done,like.
The man has just made himself a pariah in the eyes of his fellow politicians. Kudos to him,
John McGuinness, over €220,000 in expenses since GE, in opposition, PAC my arse.
With such large salaries you shouldn’t get expenses for doing your job.
Noel’s salary as a councillor is about €15,000 in fairness.
Mike, as a councillor he gets about 15K salary .
Research, Mike, research.
Barstool expert wading in with a generalisation – how rare…
Are you a parrot David? Noel receives €20k for his part time job as a councillor not €15k. Good money for a part time job a few hours a week, nice pension at the end.
Research David Research………
Andy my comment was about councillors in general who can claim up to €36k tax free in expenses each year. I didn’t mention Noel.
15k for going to a meeting once a month sounds alright
So a person that can’t get a job is on what 9k a year and a part time councilor is on 15k for meeting once a month on top of in most cases a decent salary plus expenses?
This herein lies the issue I have with the whole lot.
Good man, Noel. I bet John McGuinness will think .NOT No never!
He is a good lad !
Good on him. All councillors. Tds. Senators. Ministers. Tanaiste. Taoiseach need to do the same. Except for the councillors who are not well paid but most claim ridiculous expenses. Look up your counties and see the expenses claimed. The rest are all highly paid. But yet pay for nothing. How many jobs pay expenses for everything. Not many unless its a politician. Tax the life out of the people and stay lining there own pockets. Amazing how money can’t be found for some services but always found for the expenses.
How odd four times I tried to post about Mary s Australia flight and journal blocking me from doing so. Sf TDs her paid 35 grand a year. The rest of their wages go into the party and that is what they used to fly over.No eexpenses claimed.
They’re not doing the taxpayer any favours by taking the average industrial wage and plowing the rest into Sinn Fein’s coffers. Are they? It’s basically a political version of a Scicilian Mafia style protection racket.
What are Fine Gael and the other parties doing with all their wages considering they get drink, food and travel all paid for them and nice big fat pensions and allowances on top of them?
(Travel is part of the expenses before it is picked up on and fired in my face).
Pity there aren’t more patriotic types like this chap,good work fella.
Wanting to be a politician should exclude you from being one ….
Just want to say thank you, real respect for the people.
I’ll have to remember to send suggestions with my tax return as well. Does he really think they will spend it on what he suggests. It’s going to be funneled to Europe to pay bankers debts.
Hmmm 2015 is gearing up to be the year where Fine Gael showcase all the good work they have been doing and to hell with the Irish people that think different!!
This is why the banking Inquiry is unfolding this year to hammer FF back into the hole they dug themselves, and this is just another example of the “Quick let’s all pretend we are all saints” mentality to brainwash us all in forgetting the corruption, lies, abuse of Irish people by this party over the last 3.5 years.
Responding with reluctance but anyone ask if this guy has another job? My intake from Councillor work totals 640€ rep payment and circa 400€ expenses per month. I have downsized my own professional career to 7 shifts per month to enable me to carry out public service. Totally agree with transparency -prove your worth
Yes, he does Máire.
He is the Secretarial Assistant in the Seanad to Senator Catherine Noone.
Fg TD doesn’t claim expenses. He is in wrong party. He needs to go in do and he will get votes. While he is attached to fg no one should vote for him.
That should have said indo flipping phon e.
Fair play to him. Went to uni with him. Hell of a nice guy.
Saint Noel, would Enda like that? He likes that sort of stuff y’know.
Again journal not allowing factual comments. Schipo come back when its no t about your stupid hatred of sf. If they offered to work for free you would still hate on sf. Sf put their wages into their communities
Fuve your delusional if you actually believe that SF puts the money back into the community? Example please
wel said fuve..maith thu
SF use the money to employ their mates…..
examples Mr Rehab there if you please ?
He might as well take what he can get otherwise Enda and Co will find a way to pocket it
How exactly could that happen?
Charity, though? Why doesn’t he just hand it back?
Am i over cynical in suggesting Councillor Rock is launching a Dail bid ?
Wow. Sinn Fein must be the only party not to be funded by the taxpayer. Didn’t know that. Thanks for sharing that.
Isn’t this the same guy that used oireachtas pre paid envelopes in the recent local elections!!!!!!
My belief is that he fears for himself and his party at the next election but that is my view.
he must be looking for something. ..
Stop the press.
Fine Gael desperately search for a positive news story and try yet again to deflect the public conscience from Irish Water.
In other news,
Alex White goes all out and pushes the Nuclear button.
2 lame ducks flying into the abyss.
Fair play, no doubt people will still be on making negative comments though
Is there not a site that lists the monthly expenses claimed by each individual councillor, and TDs
Someone should make an app for ease of access to view same
Top Guy. A future TD. Ballymun boy through and through.
Ballymun? that not the address he put on the ballot paper. It was Drumcondra. More porkies? I think I still have his election mailshot with a prepaid Oireachtas envelope too. It’s good to keep things like that before politicians disappear up their own halo.
I smell an early election, June or November perhaps. Pull the rug from under Lucinda & drop Labour in it. Force FF into coalition as a junior partner or go it as a minority government with aid from FF, Lucinda & Ross’s posse of conservative independents depending on what the vote is about.
Expenses should be axed
Expenses should be axed
If a few more FG councillors can match this then I’ll vote for them
Secular athiestism
http://youtu.be/v34QjYPuiEA
I don’t see any counter argument,just a load of editing to make Richard Dawkins look bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsoC10TFCy4
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