If there is one thing that politicians excel at is plundering the public purse to enjoy spending other people’s money. While thousands of people remain homeless across Ireland, and the health service crumbles into dissolution, some at the top care little for these matters.
The public expenditure watchdog has today said that Brían Ó Domhnaill, a Fianna Fail-affiliated senator, breached ethical rules by claiming expenses on the double, from both Donegal County Council and Údarás na Gaeltachta.
The expenses relate to three trips he made back in 2006.
Mr Ó Domhnaill was associated with both entities at the time of the alleged incident, so he took advantage of these allegiances by claiming expenses from both institutions.
When questioned, he attempted to defend the morally indefensible by saying that the trips were for ‘different events, on different dates.’