A BIGGER space for the “father of the House”, a Senator’s files and personal belongings packed up and moved to reception, and a dispute betwee...
ONE of the most common criticisms politicians have of journalists is that they are obsessed with TD’s expenses and government waste. Quite aside from the ...
Some of you will recall my efforts to get access to the invoices and receipts submitted by TDs and Senators as part of their expense claims. I’ve written ...
A personal driver for Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett ended up being paid more than €10,000 in overnight expenses last year because he travelled from his home in ...
This is a presentation I gave in RTÉ late last year to the Hacks/Hackers group about building databases of political expenses and the challenges of trying to pu...
Over a year ago now, I submitted an FOI request to the Houses of the Oireachtas as part of a project I was working on in the RTÉ Investigations Unit called No E...
With the election coming up, these databases of political pay, expenses, pensions, and allowances may all again prove of interest. First up was the database of ...