Healy-Rae phone calls: Theft

Irish Times letter.

Sir,

It is clear that Dáil office practices deviate from generally accepted business conventions.

No employee in the private sector would risk making premium rate phone calls, because it would likely be flagged and disciplinary action taken for the theft as soon as the invoice was reviewed by the payables department (Breaking News, June 28th).

Indeed, such phone calls would be blocked. Are people calling psychics hotlines as well?

Few companies would distribute money without receipts, expense reports and other supporting documentation.

This total lack of accountability and absence of political will to introduce accountability to Leinster House would give any official in the ECB or IMF pause.

Would politicians consider the theft of €3,000 in cash by a drug user any differently?

Yours, etc,

SE Lydon,
Eagle Valley,
Wilton,
Cork.

4 thoughts on “Healy-Rae phone calls: Theft”

  1. Just yesterday another english MP has sent to prison for 9 months
    for fiddling his expenses, here he wouldnt get so much as an unkind word
    spoken to him.
    whether it’s 3 euros 3,000 euros or 3 billion euros no TD senator or civil servant will
    ever be brought to book, censured or fired for wasting or stealing
    taxpayers money.
    To be an honest and diligant person in ireland is to be a certified idiot
    thats the lesson we drummed into us every day.

  2. To be an honest and diligant person in ireland is to be a certified idiot
    thats the lesson we drummed have into us every day.

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