So, the department of the environment, under minister Phil Hogan, pressed for the installation of water meters. About €500million in taxpayers money spent on it. Bord Gais didnt want to install meters. Denis OBrien, a man who has donated a number of times to the Fine Gael party, buys a company at a write down of €105 million, from IBRC. Alan Dukes, a former Fine Gael leader was head of IBRC at the time, he was appointed by the FF/green gov after the when the bad bank came into existence. Phil Hogan and Mr OBrien go way back. The tribunal found Mr O’Brien actively courted Fine Gael with a view to increasing his profile with the party and that Esat Digifone’s marketing director, who was also a Fine Gael supporter, Sarah Carey, was instrumental in proposing events Mr O’Brien sponsored, such as fundraising lunches...Mr O’Brien’s largest donation was IR£5,000 for the Wicklow by-election in June 1995, for which Mr Hogan was the director of elections. A second donation of IR£4,000 was made to the Fine Gael Golf Classic in October 1995. Mr Hogan was chair of the event’s organising committee. The company OBrien buys is given a contract for meter installation, by the dept of environment. The company, Siteserv is registered in one day, something that usually takes at least a couple of weeks. The company did not have form i.e tax clearance, insurance documents etc but tendered for the meter installation contract for Dublin. That is illegal under EU law. Because OBrien bought the company, but not the name and debts of that company, he would have had to start from scratch with registering etc. The contract to install meters is worth €64million per every 125,000 households. Thats €64 million in taxpayers money. Meanwhile the country is in dire straits, homelessness is skyrocketing, people are being evicted, their houses repossessed, 180,000 people emigrated in the last 2 years alone. 760 children will be homeless this Christmas. broadsheet.ie/2014/10/09/contains-impurities/#more-367718 rte.ie/news/2014/1221/668306-bord-gais-water-meters/
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:59:28 +0000
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