Political Expenses and Data Journalism
This is a presentation I gave in RTÉ late last year to the Hacks/Hackers group about building databases of political expenses and the challenges of trying to pu...
Tag: Expenses
How Irish politicians are able to claim up to €260 per day in unvouched tax-free expenses when abroad
FOUR politicians were able to claim at least €3,000 in tax-free unvouched expenses last year for overseas travel as part of their work at Leinster House. They w...
Keeping political expenses secret: what the government has to say
Subsequent to my last post about the controversial decision to keep secret the invoices and receipts submitted by TDs and Senators for repayment from the public...
New FOI Act added “significant protection” from scrutiny for expense claims by TDs and Senators
Over a year ago now, I submitted an FOI request to the Houses of the Oireachtas as part of a project I was working on in the RTÉ Investigations Unit called No E...
The Airport Transit
In today’s Tribune, we are carrying a story about how an airport transit to transport John O’Donoghue from one terminal of Heathrow Airport to anoth...
John O’Donoghue theatre tickets and Martin Cullen’s trip to the Ryder Cup
These are the two Ministerial expenses stories that largely slipped under the radar in recent times. The first involves John O’Donoghue’s trip to Ne...
The John O’Donoghue files
This story started more than a year ago as I began to look into allegations of excessive spending by the Ceann Comhairle’s office. First up was a story ab...
