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THE LEADERS OF the Social Democrats have said that unpaid tabs at the Dáil bar and restaurant should be reviewed at the end of every month.
It comes in response to a Houses of the Oireachtas report that said unpaid tabs at the Dáil bar and restaurant going back as far as 2000 will be cleared after attempts to recoup the amounts failed.
A spokesperson for the Oireachtas said that unpaid tabs in the restaurant amounted to €4,717.06 and unpaid tabs in the bar equaled €765.23.
“A series of efforts had been made to recover the sums due” the report said, but in some cases it was acknowledged that the records were incomplete, so it was difficult to follow up.
But TDs Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy have said it’s “inexcusable” that the unpaid expenses ”are being written off at public expense”.
The fact that so many bills have gone unpaid shows total disrespect for the people who put members here in the first place.
The Oireachtas plans to revise its credit policy to restrict the time period when debts must be repaid.
The Social Democrat leaders have suggested that a review of the Dáil’s tabs should take place at the end of every month.
Shortall and Murphy have also suggested putting sanctions in place for those who repeatedly don’t repay what they owe.
“Members who repeatedly fail to clear their tabs promptly should face sanctions from the committees on procedure and privileges of both houses.”
Independent MEP Nessa Childers asked on Twitter “Why do they need a tab anyway?”
The Dáil bar
There has been criticism in the past about politicians not settling up their bar tabs.
At the end of August 2014, a total of €11,715 was owed to the bar facilities in the Houses of the Oireachtas, a sharp fall from the €72,000 that was owed at the end of 2012 – the last available figures.
The Dáil bar has come under renewed scrutiny before, after some late-night sittings that built up huge tabs.
In 2013, a bar bill of nearly €7,000 was run-up during a late-night sitting to pass the abortion legislation.
The busiest night for the Dáil bar last year was on 10 March, the first day of the new minority-government convening, when the Dáil bar generated over €11,738.14.
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That’s not a rifle image that’s a shotgun.
Do you really think the people in journal .ie would know what a rifel looks like ………..
Rifle
I think I will send a picture of a tank to the journal.ie ……… Tomorrow’s headlines ….. YELLOW SUBMARINE found in ireland …… Beatles no one suspects
hahahahah while it was the first thing i thought when i seen the picture i just know someone would say it !! still cant decide though are you just being pedantic or are you right to say it
yes but it’s an ASSAULT shotgun.
Well the way D.O.J and the gardai want to reform the gun laws you might be right!!!!
Haha that’s a shotgun lads, change it. Gun laws in this country are so stupid. Let the man have his rifle ffs.
Well it depends on the rifle. A sporting rifle can be legally held but nobody needs an AK47!
The problem is it wasn’t his riffle. This guy is part of a gang that was targeting elderly people living on their own, breaking into their homes and robbing them. The gun that was recovered belonged to a 77 year old man whom they tied up and beat. They stole the firearm from his home along with a sum of money.
From Donegal Daily
BREAKING NEWS: A MAN has been arrested and a firearm seized during a Garda operation this evening.
A Garda spokesman confirmed to Donegal Daily that the man arrested was detained after a search of a house in Ballyshannon.
The suspect is in his 40s.
A rifle was recovered during the search which came just days after a weapon was taken during an incident in Glenties where a 77-year-old man was battered and robbed by a vicious gang of burglars.
“A male aged in his 40s was arrested at the scene. He is currently detained under Section 30 of the Offences against the State Act, 1939, at Ballyshannon Garda Station,” said a spokesman.
James,
If this turns out to be true, it’s great news! That gang have been praying on elderly and vulnerable people in the north west for too long. I wonder was it anything with the €10,000 offered for information. Either way, lets hope these animals get sentences fitting their crimes!
Dr Rory used to shoot with the gentry
So he should have used it on them
Who says an AK47 can’t be a sporting rifle?
@Massimo The €10,000 might have something to do with it.
The above incident happened in Glenties, it used to be a Garda District Headquarters with a station that was manned 24/7
Shatter has since dissolved the district (Which was the largest in Co. Donegal) and split the policing of it between Ballyshannon and Milford. Both of which are nearly an hour away from Glenties.
It goes to show how crime levels will rise when cuts are implemented in Policing.
Tomorrows news: gardai to give back shotgun mistaken for rifle
Mistaken identity again
Shoot him with it.. Maybe he’ll think twice about having a gun in the first place!
I’d be getting my rifle images from another website if I were you.
Why didn’t we give that hellhole to the Brits when we were have that social clear out years ago. Donegal is a waste of space
“Youknowimright”, is your surname “Offmyfeckingtrolly” ?????
@youknowinright You have just shown how intellectually inferior you are to everyone else, probably on this planet.
That is the most ignorant, uninformed comment I have ever seen.
Everyone here is now a bit dumber for reading it.
Now go collect your dole and pick up your cans of Dutch Gold you waster.
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