“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.”.
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> 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
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> Grand so, bring us back a Tobblerone from the airport
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This country, man.
ten-siblings on
Claiming a travel allowance when you definitely are not travelling should be fraud.
Same craic goes on in the Oireachtas
Nalaek on
“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.”
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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 allowance when you definitely are not travelling 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