Tánaiste Micheál Martin has attempted to defend the indefensible in the Dáil when the revelations of an Irish Mirror investigation, which revealed the state was spending up to €1 million per month of taxpayer money on accommodation for the pets of Ukrainian refugees.
Clare TD Michael McNamara who described the government’s spending on Ukrainian pets as “taking the p**s out of taxpayers” raised the frivolous waste of tax money in the Dail on Friday but the Tánaiste defended the spending stating that it should be viewed in the “context at the time”.
The Cork South-Central TD was Taoiseach at the time of egregious waste of tax money and shows absolutely no remorse or regret for wasting millions of hard-earned Irish taxpayer euros on accommodating Ukrainian refugees’ pets.
Martin insisted that the spending was “one aspect” of the humanitarian response to Ukrainian refugee crisis.
The Irish Mirror revealed that up to €1 million a month was being spent by the Department of Integration was in addition to the €808,132 spent on transport, kennelling and veterinary services by the Department of Agriculture.
The Liberal.ie had previously disclosed that the government was spending thousands of tax payer euros to provide yoga classes to Ukrainian refugees at so-called “Rest Centres” which were mostly community centres turned migrant encampments.
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