The saga of politicians, their expenses and whether they should be considered “private papers” has been rumbling on for almost two years now. Unfo...
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...
There was an interesting discussion on Broadsheet following my last post on the battle to bring the expense claims of TDs and Senators out into the open. You ...
First, the bad news. An appeal to get access to the invoices and receipts used by TDs and Senators for claiming their expenses has, perhaps unsurprisingly, be...
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 ...
The political expenses regime in Northern Ireland has been the subject of a report by an independent review body. Some of the planned allowances would bring a ...
We often hear about the cost of Freedom of Information, the large burden it places on public bodies, and the small armies of civil servants who struggle to deal...
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 ...