TDs and Senators spend €674k on special allowances

mgn

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/revealedfamily-members-amongtds-and-senators674k-spend-on-special-allowance-40301794.html


Great to see our TDs getting trained on how to avoid questions, no surprise as to who is getting the training, the same few are on everything.

The stand out one for me is Ann Rabbitte paying out over €6,000 to Stefanie Preissner to help her become a better communicator, to me that's a really sad state of affairs when the taxpayer is footing the bill.

Why don't the have to pay for this themselves, its not like the are badly paid and cant afford it.

Coillte_Bhoy

mgn wrote: »

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/revealedfamily-members-amongtds-and-senators674k-spend-on-special-allowance-40301794.html


Great to see our TDs getting trained on how to avoid questions, no surprise as to who is getting the training, the same few are on everything.

The stand out one for me is Ann Rabbitte paying out over €6,000 to Stefanie Preissner to help her become a better communicator, to me that's a really sad state of affairs when the taxpayer is footing the bill.

Why don't the have to pay for this themselves, its not like the are badly paid and cant afford it.

Who just happens to be her special advisor's fiancee, allegedley

Effects

mgn wrote: »

The stand out one for me is Ann Rabbitte paying out over €6,000 to Stefanie Preissner to help her become a better communicator.

Does Ann refer to herself as a womxn? If not, then I don't think Stef is doing her job right.

biko

Power and having someone else's money corrupts.

Monkey arris

Fine Gael’s Damien English billed €16,750 through the scheme, including €1,800 paid to Consilium Communication and €2,950 to the well-known PR firm, The Communications Clinic.

Terry Prone and the other is a foreign based company. Isn't there some big story about foreign based people looking after this kind of thing for political parties?

Pussyhands

Stefanie Preisner is always on tv taking the moral high ground and here she is taking 6k for sweet **** all.

Effects

Pussyhands wrote: »

Stefanie Preisner is always on tv taking the moral high ground and here she is taking 6k for sweet **** all.

What kind of moral high ground?
I'm sure she feels entitled to be paid for her advice in this case.

suicide_circus

Politicians giving jobs paid by the tax payer to their own family has always struck me as dodgy

Effects

It's always been the way though, sadly.

mgn

Effects wrote: »

Does Ann refer to herself as a womxn? If not, then I don't think Stef is doing her job right.

After seeing Rabbitte on the Tonight show recently, its going to take a lot more that 6k to bring her up to speed.

mgn

suicide_circus wrote: »

Politicians giving jobs paid by the tax payer to their own family has always struck me as dodgy

Politicians do what the like, the make the laws and rules to suit themselves,