A MONTHLY rent bill of €5,400 for a residence for Ireland’s Ambassador to the Vatican, over €250,000 for moving furniture, and in excess of €222,000 on bu...
THE Department of Foreign Affairs is paying a staggering €46,000-a-month for a residence for the Irish Ambassador to Japan. The colossal rental fee, which comes...
TWO TDs opposed the development of housing in their constituencies on the basis that it would have an adverse effect on the property values of neighbours. It pr...
HEALTH Minister Simon Harris will be able to claim an extra €2,000 in tax-free mileage because of a bizarre loophole in expenses rules for ministers. Mr Harris ...
THE closure of the controversial “double Irish” and efforts to shut down other international tax avoidance schemes had a significant impact on the e...
The Department of Public Expenditure has published a full list of all special adviser salaries on their website. There are a handful of cases where people have ...
THE head of the HSE’s national programme for coronary care said Minister John Halligan had misrepresented patient numbers to overstate the level of cardia...
IRELAND’S Central Bank chief is being paid significantly more than the head of the equivalent body in the United States, the Federal Reserve. Internal doc...
The government changed the rules to allow Departments set their own rate of pay for special advisers and help avoid embarrassing negotiations over salary caps. ...
The plot thickens in the saga of the “private papers” and how a law meant to protect sensitive communications has been cynically misused to keep pol...
