Arrogant and incompetent Cardiff rejected by European Parliament

I’m absolutely delighted that Kevin Cardiff has been rejected by the Budgetary Committee of the European Parliament.

Irish MEP, Nessa Childers is to be congratulated for her courage in standing up to the highly aggressive bullying by the obnoxious Proinsias De Rossa and other members of the Labour Party.

Ms. Childers has submitted a complaint on the matter to the Labour Party but she’s very unlikely to get any satisfaction from that quarter.

I think she might have a better chance of justice if she was to submit a complaint to the European Parliament.

No matter what happens, the taxpayer will pay

The board of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland is paid by the taxpayer.

The Compliance Committee, who may conduct the investigation into the RTE/Fr. Reynolds affair, is paid by the taxpayer.

If the Authority decides to employ an outside source to conduct the investigation that source will be paid by the taxpayer.

If RTE is found guilty of either breaching the regulations or failing to co-operate with the Authority the station can be fined up to €250,000.

Any fine imposed will be paid by the taxpayer.

Minister for Finance puts interests of Kevin Cardiff before interests of Irish people

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan sympathising with the ‘ordeal’ that Kevin Cardiff faces today when he appears before the Committee on Budgetary Control of the European Parliament.

I’d like to wish him all the best. It’s difficult to go under scrutiny in any parliament and for somebody from Ireland who hasn’t experience of the European Parliamentary system it’s going to be a testing day for him.

I think, actually, of all the people that were nominated to serve on the European Court of Auditors by Irish governments over the years, Kevin Cardiff is the most qualified for the job.

This statement by the Minister sends a clear message to the Irish people.

I am a member of the ruling elite of this country. Kevin Cardiff is also a member of our exclusive club and therefore I will be giving his interests priority over the interests of the Irish people.

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Minister Noonan

Response of Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton to the Cardiff Scandal

The Week in Politics: Sunday 6th November

Clearly a mistake was made in the Dept. of Finance, the issue is what was the seriousness of that mistake and was he culpulable.

I think the general view and certainly it’s Michael Noonan’s view is that he was not culpulable, this was a mistake in how numbers were put together.

This wasn’t an issue of culpulabe failure in pursuing the duties of his office.

These are the words of an incredibly stupid man or the words of a man who has no capability whatsoever of dealing with unpalatable facts.

The Minister goes on:

I think in terms of accountability, we do need to have genuine accountability I think the tradition has not been of pinning responsibility on individuals who are responsible for certain performance and then holding them to account and tying payments to their performance, that’s not a tradition.

But as Brendan Howlin has said it’s going to become a tradition because there’s going to be clear performance indicators set for every head of agency to be accountable so this will be a sea change in the way we measure performance and hold people to account.

In other word;

We don’t have a tradition of accountability in this country but from now on we are going to make people accountable.

I’ve been listening to this bullshit promise for decades.

Copy to:

The Minister

Economist, Colm McCarthy’s response to the Kevin Cardiff scandal.

It was just a classification error.

I had a lot of sympathy for Kevin Cardiff fielding questions from a posse of politicians on the highest horses that they could locate.

It was an unedifying spectacle.

Colm McCarthy may be an expert on economics but he clearly knows nothing about the concept of accountability.

Will John Waters step aside?

The (Catholic) religious fanatic John Waters is a member of the Compliance Committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) which is to investigate the circumstances that led to false allegations being made against Fr Kevin Reynolds by RTÉ.

I’m assuming that he will step aside for this particular investigation but, in Ireland, you never know.

Former Taoiseach John Bruton invested into the Royal Order of Codswallop

Former Taoiseach John Bruton was recently invested into the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George and the Royal Order of Francis 1.

The ceremony took place in Westminster Cathedral in London.

The President of Ireland and Queen Elizabeth II sent messages for the occasion.

The Orders are dedicated to the promotion of the Catholic faith and charitable works.

Bruton will be joining such luminaries as Baroness Margaret Thatcher and Sir Michael Smurfit as members of the Royal Order of Francis 1.

I mean….what a load of codswallop.