Almost a dozen current TDs and Senators have had to revise their Registers of Members’ Interests – including one case where a TD omitted 38 acres of farmland from their original filing. SIPO has been asking for years for greater powers to investigate breaches – and been ignored.

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  1. Almost a dozen current TDs and Senators have had to revise their Registers of Members’ Interests – including one case where a TD omitted 38 acres of farmland from their original filing.

    SIPO has been asking for years for greater powers to investigate breaches – and been ignored.

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  8. Gavin and Philip Ryan shocked that the public think there is anything dodgy about our politicians. That was last….week.

  11. I wonder why the SIPO’s calls for greater powers to investigate the people that would have to agree to giving them such powers, are being hindered? Very odd. I can’t see why that would be the case at all.

    What’s even more fascinating is that if you mentioned that to a die hard FG or FF voter, they would be like MAGA heads in the US, defending the party that shits all over them and couldn’t give a fuck about them. Die hard supporters are just the worst, they’re worse than the politicians that treat them like shit.

  14. Lol… I was waiting for this. I knew if Troy didn’t understand the rules others would be in the same boat. It’ll be interesting to see the party breakdown.

    I wonder how many more are trying to brazen it out.

  15. I’ve said it before the housing crisis benefits politicians. And I’ve had FG heads tell me that’s tinfoil territory, just read the register and you’ll see not many are landlords.

    Even on here I’ve read people say as much, that if there was a conflict of interest it’s all public record, and to say otherwise is a conspiracy theory.

    But here we are loads of them have been slyly keeping their interests private while voting in ways to benefit themselves financially.

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  18. I love how the Omerta around conflicts of interest and corruption is being forcefully cast away now, as a result of the neverending string of scandals we’re seeing – and that the public are finally gaining consciousness of it, and even some mainstream journalists are *shock* actually starting to do their fucking job, now that smaller independent outlets have embarrassed them into doing so.

    The momentum built up needs to be capitalized on, and government politicians must not be allowed to let this slip back below the radar, by stringing-out and delaying/decimating legislative changes that this should result in – the public must not let them do that.

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