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The Register of Interests of the Dail for 2006 is out. Register of Members Interests of Dáil Éireann for period 1st January, 2006 to 31st December, and the Seanad 2006Register of Members Interests of Seanad Éireann for period 1st January, 2006 to 31st December, 2006.
Here is some Interesting quotes.
Bertie Ahern
(1) Honorary Memberships of: Elm Park Golf & Sports Club Ltd. for the year 2006: Nutley House, Donnybrook, Dublin 4; Grange Golf Club for the year 2006: Rathfarnham, Dublin 16; Portmarnock Golf Club for the year 2006: Portmarnock, Co.
Dublin . (2) One piece of Chinese artwork: Madame Xiao, daughter of ex-Chinese PM on visit toDublin
Other Information Provided: (1) I do not receive any material benefit from these as I do not play golf. (2) The artwork is valued at €1000. This piece has been retained by Government Secretariat.
BRADY Martin Dublin North-East1.
Occupational Income …….. Public Representative: Dáil Éireann, Kildare Street Dublin
I think we knew that.
Frank Fahey owns 19 properties.
Enda is a member of 3 Golf clubs. Maybe he plays.
There is a remarkable (hence my remarking on it) lack of consistency about this, some reps list their Dail income as occupational income many others don’t are they supposed to or not?
And I’m kind of surprised that so few own shares in anything. Maybe it is a generational thing.
Some like Joe Costello list their SSIA while the majority appear not to list them. (I’m can’t imagine that the majority of TD didn’t take out and SSIA)
Tony Dempsey has an apartment in Cypress (sic)! Does anyone check this record properly? I mean seriously I recall reading the local elections expenditure reports and we had barefaced falsehood such as Maurice Ahern spending on €750 on his entire election campaign, but that is non-binding the register of Dail interests in a meant to be proper track of what people have and there is no consistency to the thing at all.
John Ellis, says he has no shares in excess of 13,000 (that is individually I take it) but his colleague Martin Brady lists the €8,400 in shares he has in the credit union. If these guys can’t fill in a form on their own interests properly then what use might they be to the average punter in helping them navigate the bureaucracy of the state.
Michael McDowell who lists below interests in 4 properties doesn’t seem to list his holiday home down the country in Roscommon that had the planning issues a while back - could be he sold it. Or is it an oversight?
(1) Half interest as tenant in common of land adjoining home in Ranelagh. (2) 9 Manders Terrace, Dublin 6. (3) 10% interest in block in Eastpoint Office Park, Dublin 1. (4) 33 Old Bond Street, London (part ownership).
Other Information Provided: All owned jointly with spouse.
Willie O’Dea lists nothing under either Occupational Income or Gifts or Property and Service or Remunerated Position or Contracts. So is his column in the Sindo for free and it isn’t advertising? Surely that has to be counted as a gift in either a free national mouthpiece or something he is paid for?
“Tony Dempsey has an apartment in Cypress (sic)!”
Maybe it’s a treehouse!
“I mean seriously I recall reading the local elections expenditure reports and we had barefaced falsehood such as Maurice Ahern spending on €750 on his entire election campaign, but that is non-binding the register of Dail interests in a meant to be proper track of what people have and there is no consistency to the thing at all.”
I don’t know exactly what you mean by “non-binding”, but there are fairly serious consequences if you make a false declaration of local election spending, i.e. you can be disqualified for running for election in the future.
If that is the case Ryano then would someone please take a visit to Wood Quay and examine Maurice’s declaration because it was a joke and an insult to the process. He, according to his form, spent nothing on posters, and his total expenditure was less than that of Ritchie Browne of the SWP who ran in Artane. I did a long old post on this 3 years ago in p.ie when the returns were made.
Dan, the difficulty is proving that somebody made a false declaration. However, if somebody said that they didn’t spend anything on posters, and you have witnesses who say election posters up for that candidate during the relevant period, then you might be on to something. But would you care to pursue it?
I would. But should I wait until Maurice is chosen to run again before pouncing.
Also, in the interest of being relatively non-partisan I should note that Paul Coghlan of FG in the Seanad appears to be challenging Frank Fahey FF of the Dáil for the most propertied person in the Oireachtas.