She admitted lying to the Tribunal and also cast doubts over Moriarty's report. Nice!
Interesting one. Have time for Sarah Carey but caught her on Prime Time last night and I have to say I was very disappointed with her attitude.
She admitted lying to the Tribunal and also cast doubts over Moriarty's report. Nice!
Hopefully the Gardai will commence an investigation into this. Allegations are now out in the public domain of corruption and the Tribunal has shown them where to find the evidence.
The Minister for Communications (Pat Rabbitte) is to hand over the report to the Gardai and the DPP. We havnt heard the last of this yet.
Interesting one. Have time for Sarah Carey but caught her on Prime Time last night and I have to say I was very disappointed with her attitude.
Liaconn, not only did she admit to lying on national television, but she smiled and i heard a small laugh at the same time. Unreal !!
Isn’t it the case the evidence gathered by a Tribunal cannot be used in a criminal proceeding?
As for raising €1 billion and costing €500 million, that tells us that if the office of the Revenue Commissioner, the Office of corporate enforcement and the police were able to do their job we’d be up by a few hundred million more. What a bunch of incompetents we have at every level running this country. The politicians can’t do their job, the police can’ do their job and the statutory regulators can’t do their job.
I don’t like Denis O’Brien but I have no respect at all for the eminent Justice who was the ring-master of the half billion dog and pony show. I get a strong impression that he got very personally involved, i.e. emotional and angry, and also that he’s very defensive about the overall cost. If his report stated that nothing much happened he’d be slammed.
Also, remember who has been at the centre of all these tribunals... Big Business and a select few dodgy politicans. You cannot say that those at every level running the country are 'incompetents' when it is Big Business who are trying to avoid paying tax, hiding money in off shore accounts, trying to swing decisions in their favour and profit being their number one goal, so what about legislation or compliance with regulations and the law.
* Moriarty Tribunal cost €150m.
* Office of Director of Corporate Enforcement was only established in 2001.
Also, remember who has been at the centre of all these tribunals... Big Business and a select few dodgy politicans. You cannot say that those at every level running the country are 'incompetents' when it is Big Business who are trying to avoid paying tax, hiding money in off shore accounts, trying to swing decisions in their favour and profit being their number one goal, so what about legislation or compliance with regulations and the law.
* Moriarty Tribunal cost €150m.
* Office of Director of Corporate Enforcement was only established in 2001.
Also, remember who has been at the centre of all these tribunals... Big Business and a select few dodgy politicans. You cannot say that those at every level running the country are 'incompetents' when it is Big Business who are trying to avoid paying tax, hiding money in off shore accounts, trying to swing decisions in their favour and profit being their number one goal, so what about legislation or compliance with regulations and the law.
I wonder will the Irish Times get rid of Sarah Carey after this.
Doubt it. I have to say that for 14 years and apparently €150 million, one has to ask what was the bloody point? Only in this Country could we have a tribunal on this subject go on this long and make lawyers rich. What did we learn that we didn't already know. We already knew Lowry was corrupt.
Let's not forget that a large part of the cost was down to the repeated, evasive actions taken by Lowry, O'Brien and their raft of associates. How many court actions did O'Brien take in recent years to try to block the tribunal?
Just wait till the Judge gets to decide on costs.