“A junior minister has said he broke no rules by receiving €30,000 in payments from Cork County Council during a year in which he spent six months travelling the world.
Christopher O’Sullivan, who was appointed a minister of state in January, was serving as a Cork county councillor in 2008 when he went travelling to South America, Australia, and New Zealand.
His travels were undertaken the year after he was co-opted onto the council to replace his father, Christy Sr, who was elected as a Fianna Fáil TD for Cork South West after serving until 2007 as an Independent county councillor.
Mr O’Sullivan Jr previously said he told his constituents in Skibbereen he was going travelling and they did not mind, but there is no public record of this.”.
> Mr O’Sullivan Jr previously said he told his constituents in Skibbereen he was going travelling and they did not mind, but there is no public record of this.
Doubt
> Lads I’m off for a few months
>
> Grand so, bring us back a Tobblerone from the airport
This country, man.
Claiming a travel for work allowance when you definitely are not travelling for work should be fraud.
Same craic goes on in the Oireachtas
“It’s fine, the law says I was allowed to to take massive amounts of taxpayer money, including full expenses, and completely disregard my job as an elected public official that I wasn’t actually elected to cause daddy gave me the job.”
Of course he’s a FF TD too.
The lad has no ethics
“While his attendance stood at just 37%, he claimed more in 2008 than four other councillors who had higher attendance records.”
A long time ago now. Back during the credit crunch. He’s not in compliance with the law but nobody calls him out.
He thinks he has a right to taxpayer money without doing any work. He’s basically a welfare scrounger although we’re dealing with way higher sums of money here.
Are we doomed to this crowd forever.
Co-opted to the council to replace his da. Then inherits his da’s Dáil seat.
Ireland isn’t a democracy, it’s still fucking feudal!
Why is there no one doing anything about these people? This is money that could be spent where it’s needed instead of poured down the drain or given to corrupt officials. How do they justify this?
Where are the usual centrists in the thread reminding us that these amounts are small fry and that we’re being petulant and divisive by holding FF/FG politicians to account?
Give that man a promotion
Absolutely shameful, I like how there’s another line about making a donation to charity, so do that and all is forgotten about and you’re a great lad again.
If this was in any private company you’d be fired immediately and rightly so, I hope the people remember this when the time comes for voting.
This looks terrible for him.
The rules need to be changed.
Alot of people get into politics because, once.you are in the know, its seen as a job to be exploited, easy money, if you know how to work the system.
It’s a grift. This guy is a grifter.
If you think he is in that game to make things better for his constituents you are sadly mistaken.
So not only is this nepotism, this prick is getting paid more to go on holiday than I have for the entire last year or more at work. Genuinely wondering what’s the point in getting up in the morning anymore, I’d be better off on the fucking dole!
~~the privileged class exploit the system to extract as much wealth from public funds as possible~~
Welfare cheats cheat us all
As someone who didn’t vote for him, I am going to defend him in saying that this was years ago, it was settled and he has made vast improvements since then. Every time there is something being built or done to the town, he has backed it. He does do a lot of good, which is why he continuously gets voted back in. I don’t like him as a person and due to the party he is with but I can also recognise when there is a clear attempt to try to tarnish a possible candidate for the leader of Fianna Fáil when MM steps down, which will probably happen soon enough, and if this is the best that they can find, good luck with it. Fianna Fáil voters aren’t going to care about this at all, one of their TDs could shoot a puppy and they still wouldn’t bat an eye.
This Holly Cairn’s ex yeah?
So he was absent for the 6 month period and does not fit the criteria for the 18 month so should have been given the boot.
Think the real story is the lack of enforcement of the rules and lack of investigation of the expenses to confirm they are legitimate.
Who signed off them? Why are they not being questioned to provide answers?
I’m sure as a sign of good faith, he can pay it back.
Holly Cairns ex boyfriend.
Not a great judge of character it seems.
Make this guy a Super Junior Minister immediately. No better yet FF Presidential nominee
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And yes it was a continuous 6 months period.
I won’t reproduce the entire article but:
“A junior minister has said he broke no rules by receiving €30,000 in payments from Cork County Council during a year in which he spent six months travelling the world.
Christopher O’Sullivan, who was appointed a minister of state in January, was serving as a Cork county councillor in 2008 when he went travelling to South America, Australia, and New Zealand.
His travels were undertaken the year after he was co-opted onto the council to replace his father, Christy Sr, who was elected as a Fianna Fáil TD for Cork South West after serving until 2007 as an Independent county councillor.
Mr O’Sullivan Jr previously said he told his constituents in Skibbereen he was going travelling and they did not mind, but there is no public record of this.”.
> Mr O’Sullivan Jr previously said he told his constituents in Skibbereen he was going travelling and they did not mind, but there is no public record of this.
Doubt
> Lads I’m off for a few months
>
> Grand so, bring us back a Tobblerone from the airport
This country, man.
Claiming a travel for work allowance when you definitely are not travelling for work should be fraud.
Same craic goes on in the Oireachtas
“It’s fine, the law says I was allowed to to take massive amounts of taxpayer money, including full expenses, and completely disregard my job as an elected public official that I wasn’t actually elected to cause daddy gave me the job.”
Of course he’s a FF TD too.
The lad has no ethics
“While his attendance stood at just 37%, he claimed more in 2008 than four other councillors who had higher attendance records.”
A long time ago now. Back during the credit crunch. He’s not in compliance with the law but nobody calls him out.
He thinks he has a right to taxpayer money without doing any work. He’s basically a welfare scrounger although we’re dealing with way higher sums of money here.
Are we doomed to this crowd forever.
Co-opted to the council to replace his da. Then inherits his da’s Dáil seat.
Ireland isn’t a democracy, it’s still fucking feudal!
Why is there no one doing anything about these people? This is money that could be spent where it’s needed instead of poured down the drain or given to corrupt officials. How do they justify this?
Where are the usual centrists in the thread reminding us that these amounts are small fry and that we’re being petulant and divisive by holding FF/FG politicians to account?
Give that man a promotion
Absolutely shameful, I like how there’s another line about making a donation to charity, so do that and all is forgotten about and you’re a great lad again.
If this was in any private company you’d be fired immediately and rightly so, I hope the people remember this when the time comes for voting.
This looks terrible for him.
The rules need to be changed.
Alot of people get into politics because, once.you are in the know, its seen as a job to be exploited, easy money, if you know how to work the system.
It’s a grift. This guy is a grifter.
If you think he is in that game to make things better for his constituents you are sadly mistaken.
So not only is this nepotism, this prick is getting paid more to go on holiday than I have for the entire last year or more at work. Genuinely wondering what’s the point in getting up in the morning anymore, I’d be better off on the fucking dole!
~~the privileged class exploit the system to extract as much wealth from public funds as possible~~
Welfare cheats cheat us all
As someone who didn’t vote for him, I am going to defend him in saying that this was years ago, it was settled and he has made vast improvements since then. Every time there is something being built or done to the town, he has backed it. He does do a lot of good, which is why he continuously gets voted back in. I don’t like him as a person and due to the party he is with but I can also recognise when there is a clear attempt to try to tarnish a possible candidate for the leader of Fianna Fáil when MM steps down, which will probably happen soon enough, and if this is the best that they can find, good luck with it. Fianna Fáil voters aren’t going to care about this at all, one of their TDs could shoot a puppy and they still wouldn’t bat an eye.
This Holly Cairn’s ex yeah?
So he was absent for the 6 month period and does not fit the criteria for the 18 month so should have been given the boot.
Think the real story is the lack of enforcement of the rules and lack of investigation of the expenses to confirm they are legitimate.
Who signed off them? Why are they not being questioned to provide answers?
I’m sure as a sign of good faith, he can pay it back.
Holly Cairns ex boyfriend.
Not a great judge of character it seems.
Make this guy a Super Junior Minister immediately. No better yet FF Presidential nominee
Cairns did well for herself loosing that fella
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