Former taoiseach claiming €140k and not earning it

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Enda's shame

I am mostly a Fine Gael voter (I could never support the followers of Charles Haughey or 😡 Bertie AssholeAhern, rather than being an avid supporter of FG) and i wholeheatedly gave enda kennys party my vote as he was from my home county, I figured as taoiseach he acknowledged the country population as opposed to the very capital centric government. How cuntish is the behaviour that claims such a massive salary and does nothing for it?

He would have been privy to the most horrendous stories of the most vulnerable of our state (and he was surrounded by some of the most privileged). As someone who grew up in a deprived part of the world he would have been well aware of the huge divide between the haves and the will-never-haves and still he climbed aboard the SS Serve Myself like the most heinous of characters.

Leo Varadkar would not have rated imo and when he attempted to oust Enda I was totally pro Enda because of (my ) simplistic view that Leo, Dublin boy, from a well off background from a school with notions but as it turns out Leo might be more of the people than greedy Enda ever was.

What do you think?

Enda Kenny rewarded Phil Hogan with a big job in Europe ( and all that goes with it) after the Irish Water fiasco.
He also appointed Simon Harris a political whippersnapper as Minister for Health
All the promises he made about a different political landscape after the fiasco of the 2008+ depression / recession and its impact on the Irish people came to nothing.
I have no time for him and am not surprised by your post in relation to him.
Just another mé feiner.

It makes you wonder where are those politicians who have morals. I cannot pinpoint a decent moralistic politician that you could say was a good role model. The UK doesn't seem to be suffering from a deluge of those either in fairness.

Irish politicians claiming expenses when not present in the Dail.
Pressing other politicians voting buttons ( which is prohibited ) for them.
Ignoring the rules of the Dail and no sanctions against them.
I despair.
Why did no politician speak up and alert the public that this was going on ?

It's the lack of sanctions for bad behaviour in all aspects of public life in Ireland that upsets me.
In the UK at least the politicians resign if caught.

In the UK at least the politicians resign if caught.

😂 Have you been following Brexit at all?? The govt is packed to the brim with politicians that have repeatedly been caught lying about government spending and concealing financial conflicts of interest. Several are under investigation for interfering in the democratic process. None have resigned for these things.

Politicians everywhere are compromised if not actively corrupt. There are a handful of decent politicians in every parliament but they are rarely in cabinet because the schmoozing and gladhanding that is necessary to get to that profile positively rewards corruption.

In terms of public sector corruption, Ireland is relatively clean and ranks at #18 out of 1800*, about on par with those of Estonia, France and Japan. We're about halfway down the EU list (Denmark is top and Bulgaria is bottom).

Having spent time in countries with real corruption problems, what goes on here is petty small fry. I find it hard to get worked up about, tbh. I know things should be better, but I'm also grateful they aren't worse 🤷‍♀️