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Comprehensive guide to expenses online?

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  • 13-10-2009 6:51pm
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    Rebelheart
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    Does anybody know if there is yet a detailed account of every politician's expenses online yet?

    Are there any plans for one? It appears very odd that we are only hearing of the expenses of one or two politicians. It all seems like a massive can of worms which politicians are very keen to keep closed.


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    BroomBurner
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    FOI requests take time, and journalists/other people have only started to become interested in what their taxes have been spent on.

    The one upshot of the recession, I think!


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    Biggins
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    Good place to start is here: http://thestory.ie/

    I have some very basic stuff highlight here too: http://www.unitedpeople.ie/greed.html
    (click on pics for larger size)


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    Dannyboy83
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    Leo Varadkar
    http://www.leovaradkar.ie/?p=259

    Thats the only one I know, but he said on TV3 last night that two other politicians are now also putting their expenses online.



    He also made some distinction recently between ministerial expenses and parliamentary expenses.
    The parliamentary expenses are in the public domain and always have been, whereas Fianna Fail ministers are kept hidden away.

    Apologies if that is incorrect, but that is how I understood it anyway.


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