Wicklow Times gives us a mention

 

We recently crossed over the 36,000 visitors mark and for the first time we also got a mention in the local paper the Wicklow Times click here Document (9)

They picked up on my article on the Local TD’s expenses.

Last Year we had a Darby and here is the link http://thepressnet.com/2009/09/01/wicklow-td%e2%80%99s-are-big-spenders/

My thanks to all who drop by on a Daly basis , contribute and encourage me .Independent news and opinions  are a vital ingredient of Democracy ,and we must guard these fundamental rights we all have .

We also have the right to call to account those that are put in places of power be it local or national

remember we the people are the paymasters and they are supposed to be working for US the general public .We must get used to asking the real questions .for example Wicklow Town has now approx 2000 unemployed ,so what have the Local elected TD’s done to get even one person a job

What new funds or what job creation measures have been provided in the last 17 months

I can answer you NONE!

Don’t promise you votes to someone just because there a nice Man/Woman

We need new faces and new ideas; nothing will change if the same old policies are kept

 We need Action on Jobs and not hot air and empty promises

Billions have been squandered in toxic Banks (NAMA)

Jobs have been created for top managers, accountants and solicitors (people in the right circles)

The rest of us are dumped and forgotten!

Stand up and fight back! 

  Demand up-skilling ,re-education and universal health care for all

 Demand answers and accountability!

The party is over Boys and Girls in the Dail

Poor Mr.Bernard Durkan tells us he will not be giving back his pension (€5,483)

Listen to Bernard  click Bernard Durkan TD

But Bernard is not the only one of the Dail Poor in receipt of a nifty addition to his Dail salary

Speaking yesterday, Mr Lenihan said that it was open to anyone to make a contribution from their pension to the Minster for Finance.

“Many can reflect on the difficulty economic circumstances Ireland is in and decide to assist voluntarily,” he said.

PARLIAMENTARY PENSIONS 

Ruairí Quinn: €41,656

Bertie Ahern: €98,901

Richard Bruton: €13,242

Parliamentarians who have forgone ministerial pensions, (provisional 2009 figures which have yet to be audited): 

Joan Burton (Lab): €1,664

Jimmy Deenihan (FG): €1,655

Eamon Gilmore (Lab): €1,181

Michael D Higgins (Lab): €17,738

Enda Kenny (FG): €9,113

Liz McManus (Lab): €2,128

Mary O’Rourke (FF): €28,341

Pat Rabbitte (Lab): €4,255

Gay Mitchell MEP (FG): €2,837

Proinsias De Rossa MEP (Lab): €4,890

Michael Woods (FF) €33,343*

*forwent half pension entitlement

Parliamentarians and former ministers still receiving ministerial pensions (provisional 2009 figures which have yet to be audited): 

Bertie Ahern (FF): €98,901

Bernard Allen (FG): €5,485

Liam Aylward MEP (FF): €12,261

Seán Barrett (FG): €28,667

Richard Bruton (FG): €13,242

Sen Ivor Callely (FF): €6,637

Paul Connaughton (FG): €16,092

Bernard Durkan (FG): €5,483

Frank Fahey (FF): €37,205

Pat “the Cope” Gallagher MEP (FF): €23,634

Jim Higgins MEP (FG): €5,952

Sen Terry Leyden (FF): €21,761

Jim McDaid (FF): €22,487

Michael Noonan (FG): €39,944

Ruairí O’Hanlon (FF): €82,355

Jim O’Keeffe (FG): €17,770

Ned O’Keeffe (FF): €6,810

Brian O’Shea (Lab): €7,716

Ruairí Quinn (Lab): €41,656

Emmet Stagg (Lab): €7,716

Noel Treacy (FF): €24,007

Its time this Gravy train was stopped in its tracks, write to you local TD and demand that the practice of collecting pensions whilst still in receipt of a Dail salary be stopped immediately

Furthermore all pensions should not be more that the national average citizens’ pension

TD’s should not be financially better off as a result of payments from the taxpayers of this country, the people they are supposed to be serving

It’s time to get real and let these leaches know that the party is over,and they better get use to the idea!

Wicklow TD’s are big spenders

Wicklow TD’s are big spenders when it comes to expenses  419,327.00 s Euros

With the growing number of Wicklow voters being dumped on to the dole queues like my-self and told that we are not eligible to any dole payments or any other social security payments after paying into the tax coffers for 35 years, and never having darkened the door step of a dole office before, it is a hard thing to swallow this extravagance in allowances for our well healed TD’s

I wont waste time calling for any explanations from our local servants of the people.

But you must agree that when the people that are supposed to be serving you in the Dail and that are supposed to be servants of the people are living way beyond the level of ordinary people there has to be something very wrong !

I call on the voters to now demand that any would be TD’s in the next general election declare that they will work for the average industrial wage and if not they will not get your vote and further more I propose that all able persons to stand for the general election against existing TD’s that refuse to make available to the local communities a complete listing of their expenses

I am offering to post any such information on this blog for free anytime

 I call  on all the Wicklow TD’s to publish their entire expenses for their term to date!and to do so every month from now on

Lets see what happens above race results were again

1 st place: Billy Timmins  FG at 120,685 Euros

2^nd place: Andrew Doyle FG at 113,572 Euros

3^rd place   Joe Behan      IND at   90,717 Euros

4th place Liz McManus Lab  at   76,503 Euros

Last Place Dick Roche  FF      at    17,850 Euros