It was Lucinda Creighton who exposed the absolutely criminal waste of money by Maurice Hayes and the Forum on Europe, and the incredible way that their expenditure seemed to grow year-on-year

2007 €2,075,845.11
2006 €1,517,041.49
2005 €1,294,947.05
2004 €942,340.90
2003 €919,537.35

How the hell did a small body with a small staff which has been doing the same work since its inception, manage to DOUBLE its expenditure in just three years???

Maurice Hayes should go to jail for this kind of waste of taxpayers money - as should successive Ministers who authorised the squandermania