🚨Breaking 🚨Fine Gael’s Marian Agrios agreed to withdraw a planning objection in return for more than €100,000 worth of work to her house
Separately, yesterday The Ditch revealed that Agrios got a €30,000 package from a developer in exchange for withdrawing another objection.
Edit: article now released by The Ditch. It gets worse!!!
Shocking stuff. 61 homes to be built and she withdraws when they carry out the work on her house. Then goes on to say the other week she is aware we have a housing crisis and we need to build more!
Brown envelopes and backhanders rife through the country
I’m assuming she reported all these instances to Revenue.
Corruption everywhere. 100k worth of work done to the house and if she ever sells it’ll be a nice boost to the price.
Shouldn’t something like this be investigated as a crime immediately?
Time to start dragging the elite out into the streets.
Make sure to bring this up with an FG candidate that knocks on your door. Personally I’ll be telling them that as long as the party is supporting her I won’t be supporting the party. (Not that I’d planned on doing that anyway)
Honestly fuck this cunt, I am so annoyed, Ireland is a not a serious country. Beneath the veneer is the gombeen scumbag peddlers of supposedly old
Another Corrupt Irish Establishment Politician = = And No One is Shocked or Surprised.
Another crime that will go unpunished. Oh wait, they have the perfect scapegoat for all of this. Blame the outsiders for everything, lol. That train is never late. The bane of this country.
I don’t know, this country feels corrupt to the core at the minute.
A lot of dodgy stuff going on.
It’s really disheartening to be honest. I think we’ve learned nothing, we are not mature politically speaking and as a society. It feels like there is scant regard for rules. It also feels like planning authorities and some Govt Dept civil servants are in on shenanigans. And also TDs.
There is never real accountability. I feel like working class and middle class citizens are absolutely shafted.
They don’t realise the damage this is doing to lives.
Anyone else read Agrios’ “new Indian sandstone patio” in Hyacinth Bouquet’s voice?
Was expecting this to be on the RTE news last night.
The absolute neeeeck of her
Start sending emails and mail to your TDs.
She should be in prison for this.
‘what occurred was wrong’ lol
This is the political language that blinds people. She did the wrong! There should be an aptitude test as a politician. Criminals and socialites. A handful are good but they spend their time doing the work and not getting into positions of power.
Crazy stuff. Surely there should be an investigation into this.
just remember, you would never heard about this if she wasn’t running for election
“What occurred was wrong and I am extremely sorry for it. It should not have happened.
Wrong is one way to phrase it. Illegal would be more apt.
I see people saying she can’t be prosecuted for fraud or blackmail, but maybe extortion? How about going the tax route?
Did she pay income tax on the money received and did she pay CAT on the value of the work received for free? If she was to be prosecuted this might be the way to go. Not sure if the CAT part is actually relevant here, but the income tax part surely is? Revenue might be interested to learn she received €15k which probably wasn’t taxed.
Will she be returning the money?
Ah the usual “I’m sorry (that I was caught)” reply. F thr lot of them. For every one that’s caught there’s 10 more still getting away with it.
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Right so they have all this money while most of us don’t have much by the end of the month and these twits are actively spending 5 years worth of my pay before tax to stop gaels being let live.
Housing is a right and I will break spines if anybody thinks it’d not.
If this was a SF politician this would be front page news.
She admits what happened was wrong. Didn’t stop her from running for office though did it? Only sorry she got caught and wants it all to go away now.
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Quote from The Ditch:
🚨Breaking 🚨Fine Gael’s Marian Agrios agreed to withdraw a planning objection in return for more than €100,000 worth of work to her house
Separately, yesterday The Ditch revealed that Agrios got a €30,000 package from a developer in exchange for withdrawing another objection.
Edit: article now released by The Ditch. It gets worse!!!
Shocking stuff. 61 homes to be built and she withdraws when they carry out the work on her house. Then goes on to say the other week she is aware we have a housing crisis and we need to build more!
. https://www.ontheditch.com/fine-gael-candidate-withdrew-objection/
I wonder what excuses and reasoning they’ll dust off and pull outta the wardrobe. ‘Nothingburger’, I hope
Misread that as pork 😂
Apart from the independent how have our large media organisations not reported on this blatant extortion from a Fine Gael candidate.
Reminds me of this article from a cosy cartel member claiming there is no cosy cartel
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-41368045.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Brown envelopes and backhanders rife through the country
I’m assuming she reported all these instances to Revenue.
Corruption everywhere. 100k worth of work done to the house and if she ever sells it’ll be a nice boost to the price.
Shouldn’t something like this be investigated as a crime immediately?
Time to start dragging the elite out into the streets.
Make sure to bring this up with an FG candidate that knocks on your door. Personally I’ll be telling them that as long as the party is supporting her I won’t be supporting the party. (Not that I’d planned on doing that anyway)
Honestly fuck this cunt, I am so annoyed, Ireland is a not a serious country. Beneath the veneer is the gombeen scumbag peddlers of supposedly old
This is going to be a crime apparently
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2024/05/28/objector-demands-for-go-away-money-against-housing-developments-to-become-a-crime/
Another Corrupt Irish Establishment Politician = = And No One is Shocked or Surprised.
Another crime that will go unpunished. Oh wait, they have the perfect scapegoat for all of this. Blame the outsiders for everything, lol. That train is never late. The bane of this country.
I don’t know, this country feels corrupt to the core at the minute.
A lot of dodgy stuff going on.
It’s really disheartening to be honest. I think we’ve learned nothing, we are not mature politically speaking and as a society. It feels like there is scant regard for rules. It also feels like planning authorities and some Govt Dept civil servants are in on shenanigans. And also TDs.
There is never real accountability. I feel like working class and middle class citizens are absolutely shafted.
They don’t realise the damage this is doing to lives.
Anyone else read Agrios’ “new Indian sandstone patio” in Hyacinth Bouquet’s voice?
Was expecting this to be on the RTE news last night.
The absolute neeeeck of her
Start sending emails and mail to your TDs.
She should be in prison for this.
‘what occurred was wrong’ lol
This is the political language that blinds people. She did the wrong! There should be an aptitude test as a politician. Criminals and socialites. A handful are good but they spend their time doing the work and not getting into positions of power.
Crazy stuff. Surely there should be an investigation into this.
just remember, you would never heard about this if she wasn’t running for election
“What occurred was wrong and I am extremely sorry for it. It should not have happened.
Wrong is one way to phrase it. Illegal would be more apt.
I see people saying she can’t be prosecuted for fraud or blackmail, but maybe extortion? How about going the tax route?
Did she pay income tax on the money received and did she pay CAT on the value of the work received for free? If she was to be prosecuted this might be the way to go. Not sure if the CAT part is actually relevant here, but the income tax part surely is? Revenue might be interested to learn she received €15k which probably wasn’t taxed.
Will she be returning the money?
Ah the usual “I’m sorry (that I was caught)” reply. F thr lot of them. For every one that’s caught there’s 10 more still getting away with it.
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Right so they have all this money while most of us don’t have much by the end of the month and these twits are actively spending 5 years worth of my pay before tax to stop gaels being let live.
Housing is a right and I will break spines if anybody thinks it’d not.
If this was a SF politician this would be front page news.
She admits what happened was wrong. Didn’t stop her from running for office though did it? Only sorry she got caught and wants it all to go away now.
https://www.pleanala.ie/en-ie/case/248793
Found this online