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NAMA, once again

So, the real repository of information on the cost of the bank Bailout is the Government, through its proxy, NAMA.

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The Paper of Record

One of Ireland’s newspapers reputedly aspires to be the Paper of Record. To be serious on the point it ought to have this vainglorious claim beneath its masthead; it does’nt, correctly. It cannot be such, because of its necessarily accepted constraints. A true Paper of Record would explain. No Irish newspaper explains. They cannot, because to explain is to judge. To judge is, often, to defame. No average newspaper (in Britain or Ireland) can defame persistently and survive. What the […]

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3rd Parties and Insurance Cover

Will Bill mention this to Mathew Elderfield and Professor Holohan? Will they write a letter to the Taoiseach seeking urgent legislation to remedy the situation? Will the Taoiseach act? Will he, feck!

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In search of Dublin’s Water Policy

This post could be entitled “water”. It is prompted by the proposal of Michael Phillips the Dublin City Engineer, that water be piped from the river Shannon to Dublin city. I have not heard the reason why this “solution” is necessary. What, in fact, is the problem? Let’s start with an Irish Times report seen HERE. We should also refer to a paper by Mr. Phillips himself, seen HERE. The Irish Times report is of value; it has some figures […]

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The Financial Services Ombudsman

Bill Prasifka, the new Financial Services Ombudsman has started well, if we can properly understand recent newspaper reports. He seems to have issued some form of Press Release but it’s not on his website yet. The reports credit him with underlining that he is limited in the amount of compensation he may award against the anonymous “regulated” financial services bodies (banks) he polices. (He does’nt really; he reacts to complaints). Consequently, Bill awarded the maximum, €250,000, to a farming couple […]

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Fraud Prevention (Whistleblowing “maxed”)

This blog has proposed a remedy for fraud of public funds in the past

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Hindsight again, Minister?

The musings by the Director of Public Prosecutions as reported HERE warrant a book written on them. He has pointed to the need for, and social value of whistleblowers. This being a blog, a posting will have to suffice. His musings were followed by a proposal from the Minister for Justice, the terms of which are currently obscure. Assuming that there is no co-ordination between the Minister for Justice and the DPP, and assuming them to be decent, well-meaning office […]

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Some Questions for Your Country Your Call

Some questions which arise regarding the Your Country Your Call competition.

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Justice

(Of course the foregoing is a fiction. Our Executive has ensured that the Oireachatas does not function correctly; somebody other than the Oireachats decided the terms of the Act).

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Ryanair’s Retreat

By this means they would off-set the advantage of size that Ryanair has over any single consumer, a circumstance perpetuated in Ireland by the sullen laziness of successive Irish Governments.

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