Irish Government Waste

THE COST OF WASTE AND CORRUPTION
TOTAL WASTE ON THIS PAGE...€11,050,000,000...Over €11BILLION!!!
ARE WE A NATION OF COMPLETE GOBSHITES?!!!
I seriously didn't realise that it was this bad.
To use the vernacular that is forbidden by 'linguistic apartheid'...
For fuck's sake lads!
Decentralisation, where only a handful of people want to move, is another 'black hole'.
Residential Institutions Redress Board could cost €1.2 billion because our government are letting the crooked Catholic Church off the hook. The taxpayer will end up paying the bulk of the compensation when a couple of paintings from the vatican could pay the whole amount.

Overspend on roads €9bn...
Even if it's a gross exaggeration, it's still a SCANDAL!
“There seems almost to be an attitude among this government that because there is plenty of funds in the Exchequer coffers that waste or overspending does not really matter. The reality, of course, is that every Euro wasted means a Euro less for other capital projects or for essential public services. According to the Public Accounts Committee the overspend on roads amounts to around €9bn. Just imagine how this €9bn could have been used to transform public transport in this country.
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Shortage of polling booths...€57m down the drain...
THE Government, still wincing from the €57m e-voting machines fiasco, has just discovered it doesn't have enough polling booths for the looming general election.
It is now planning to spend hundreds of thousands of euro on new booths for every electoral area nationwide, it was learned yesterday.
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€25m scam by asylum seekers uncovered...
BOGUS asylum seekers are defrauding millions of euro from the State - even though they no longer live here.
Social welfare and immigration officials have saved an estimated €25m in taxpayers' money after uncovering a massive benefit payments fraud by bogus asylum seekers living elsewhere.
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Bertie blamed for €35m digital flop...
TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was yesterday accused of bearing personal responsibility for the "flaky" pet project Medialab Europe that failed with a loss of more than €35m of taxpayers' money.
The Taoiseach's idea of developing an information technology hothouse came after a visit to the United States.
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€220m for ill-fated PPARS system...
HEALTH chiefs are refusing to ditch the beleaguered PPARS system - despite making contingency plans to spend millions on another computer to do the same work.
In an embarrassing U-turn, the chief executive of the Health Service Executive, Professor Brendan Drumm, has ordered staff to work to "realise the benefits" of PPARS, which has so far cost taxpayers more than €220m - and this despite personally calling a halt to its national rollout in 2005 as costs ballooned from an initial estimate of just €9m.
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New road deal will cost us €713m, and tolls will stay...
SOLD. Toll bridge for €600m. One previous owner. Genuine 100,000 vehicles daily. Has potential to make loads of money for enterprising purchaser.
Once again, taxpayers will be fleeced to bale the Government out of another deep hole of its own making. By August next year it will be a case of 'the tolls are gone, long live the tolls'.
Buying back the Westlink toll at a cost of €50m a year for 12 years means the private tolls will merely be replaced by public tolls.
The deal being trumpeted by the Government will cost taxpayers €713m. in the process. And the infuriating bottom line is that we will still have to pay tolls on the bridge for many years to come.
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McDowell say Mahon tribunal will cost €1bn ...
THE Government was embroiled in a major row last night after Tanaiste Michael McDowell suggested the Mahon Tribunal be wound down.
In an extraordinary statement, the controversial Justice Minister said the tribunal costs were heading towards the €1bn mark and it could not "go on forever".
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