The Squanderers - It was just an oversight - Theft is theft what ever else you call it.

It is unbelievable what is going in our political system now, there is absolutely no financial accountability. It was just an oversight.

If a person in Ireland goes into a shop or buys online you are taxed 23% on nearly every purchase. If you are working, you are taxed, if you pay for any professional service, solicitor, accountant, auctioneer, in the country you are taxed. In actual fact from the time you get up in the morning until the time you go to be you are probably paying tax for something to the Irish government and then you see you money being spent like this.

Irish Politicians have claimed €567.000 for just one day sitting in the Dail for December 2024.

You hear this all the time "it was just an oversight"

The waste of money that has gone on in our Dail chambers in the past few years is off the scale, completely unacceptable.

The time for legal financial accountability has arrived for these politicians.

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This is the rhetoric on the government website, it looks brilliant in theory.

"well-managed, well-targeted and sustainable public spending through modernised, effective and accountable public services".

https://www.gov.ie/en/role/c5e4c2-secretary-general-of-the-department-of-public-expenditure-and-reform/

Secretary General

David Maloney

Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform

From Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform 

Published on 20 December 2018

Last updated on 28 July 2023

The Secretary General is the Head of the department and leads it in its mission to serve the public interest by supporting the delivery of well-managed, well-targeted and sustainable public spending through modernised, effective and accountable public services.

This work is particularly focused on supporting and overseeing a coherent and sustainable framework for public expenditure and reform; continuing to show leadership in the effective control and oversight of the public finances and dealing with spending pressures to support long term sustainability; and providing leadership in driving reform and innovation across the civil and public service.

The Secretary General has the following responsibilities under the Public Service Management Act 1997:

• managing the business generally of the department

• implementing government policies appropriate to the department

• monitoring government policies that affect the department

• delivering outputs as determined by the Minister

• providing policy advice to the Minister on all matters within the remit of the department

• preparing Statements of Strategy and progress reports on their implementation, for submission to the Minister

• ensuring proper use of resources and the provision of cost-effective public services; and other organisational matters

• preparing an outline of how specific responsibilities are to be assigned to other officers down through the department

• managing matters relating to appointments, performance, discipline and dismissal of civil servants below the grade of Principal or its equivalent

The Secretary General is also the Accounting Officer for the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform.

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