Frank Fahey - Lost at Sea

[cry freedom]

Send for Admiral Enda Kenny.

He will rescue Frank and send the naval hospital ship "The Mary Harney" to dry him out.


Admiral Kenny reviews the Irish fleet.

You are a pathetic, miserable bag man for the Fianna fail party,who would defend them and try to deflect proper scrutiny away from them at every turn.
Are you sure you weren't a consul ant for the Irish clergy when they were trying their whitewash offensive.

[PaddyJoe McGillycuddy]

Just covered on TV3 11 pm news. Interview with Danny Byrne, son of the deceased Donegal fisherman.

[PaddyJoe McGillycuddy]

I wonder if Frank ever feels a bit lost on land as well while trying to keep track of his property portfolio. Must be a bugger to remember to fill in all the paper work.
I suppose the reason he was wheeled out so many times to push NAMA is that he has a very concrete interest in supporting property prices. Are there any conflict of interest rules on TDs voting on legislation which directly affects their private financial affairs?
Nah, silly question there. Forget I asked

Galway TD Frank Fahey, who lists 18 separate property portfolios, most of which are in or around Galway. The Fianna Fáil TD also lists 15 apartments in Brussels, as well as houses in Dubai, Portugal, Massachusetts and France.

Vested interests: 38 politicians voting on Nama have extensive property portfolios

[DCon]

Donegal North East Fianna Fáil TD Niall Blaney has been branded a ‘disgrace’ in the wake of a Dáil debate on the Lost at Sea scheme.

speaking in the Dáil yesterday, Deputy Blaney called into question the independence of the Ombudsman on the basis that a meeting on the report was held with the Ombudsman without a Fianna Fáil representative present.

Danny Byrne who was in Leinster House for yesterday’s debate has said he was astounded by what Deputy Blaney had to say.

Mr Byrne said he felt it was a “complete disgrace” that a Donegal elected representative would come out against a local family and their fight for justice.

Ocean FM Blaney branded ‘disgrace’ following Dáil debate

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Excellent OP Malbekh.

The scams just keep coming. They are endless it seems.

[Kerrygold]

There were heated exchanges between Martin Ferris and Fahey yesterday during the debate, which was covered on RTE's 6.01 news and today's IT.

Here's one interesting contribution: Deputy Ferris said "These issues were raised previously and referred to in a number of press reports. They were also mentioned in this House by Deputy Sargent in June 2006 during an extensive survey of Deputy Fahey's property holdings. Deputy Sargent specifically mentioned the fact that two of then Minister's constituents had received a large share of the compensation. He went on to call on the then Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, to sack Deputy Fahey, which I recall drew a somewhat blunt response from him who told him to "Put up or shut up". The claim regarding the two individuals was contained in an article in Ireland on Sunday two weeks later, which stated that the two people concerned had suggested setting up the scheme in the first place and that the criteria governing applications were changed to facilitate one of those persons.
Subsequently, Deputy Fahey made a complaint to the Committee on Procedures and Privileges about what had been said about him but he failed to secure the necessary support to censure Deputy Sargent who, in December 2006, made a complaint to the Standards in Public Office Commission specifically citing the Lost at Sea scheme as one of the reasons to investigate the then Minister, along with his involvement in the Corrib gas pipeline and the allocation of 14,000 tonnes in quota to the Atlantic Dawn. This trawler, using a national asset, is currently fishing off the west coast under the name of a Dutch consortium."

He went onto say: “Of the 67 applicants between June 2001 and the closing of the scheme on December 31, only six were accepted. €2.8 million was paid out to those six successful applicants to buy replacement tonnage. Two of the then Minister’s constituents got 75 per cent or €2.1 million of the total funds. It was later discovered that although the scheme did not close until December 31 2001, that Minister Fahey had written to his two constituents in October congratulating them on being successful. Apparently Minister Fahey’s two constituents were the people who originally suggested establishing the scheme.

“It was also found that one of those persons did not actually qualify but he appealed and was accepted in 2003 with one of the reasons cited for the award being the fact that Minister Fahey’s letter of congratulations had created the reasonable expectation that he would in fact receive compensation."

Apologies for pasting this stuff. I don't have a link to it.

[Malbekh]

Excellent OP Malbekh.

The scams just keep coming. They are endless it seems.

Thanks. In fairness this has been brewing since 2006, it's back in the domain after O'Reilly asked the Oireachtas to intervene and make a judgement on the compensation for the Byrne's.

I don't like Frank Fahey, not on a personal level, he just represents the kind of politics we need to dispense with. I'm raising the subject here because a) the government are wheeling him out on NAMA debates which pretty much tells you all you need to know about their ethics and b) it's a further reminder to Trevor Sargent and the Greens about how far they have fallen. (thanks for the highlight Kerrygold)

A plague on all their houses!

[DCon]

There were heated exchanges between Martin Ferris and Fahey yesterday during the debate, which was covered on RTE's 6.01 news and today's IT.

Here's one interesting contribution: Deputy Ferris said "These issues were raised previously and referred to in a number of press reports. They were also mentioned in this House by Deputy Sargent in June 2006 during an extensive survey of Deputy Fahey's property holdings. Deputy Sargent specifically mentioned the fact that two of then Minister's constituents had received a large share of the compensation. He went on to call on the then Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, to sack Deputy Fahey, which I recall drew a somewhat blunt response from him who told him to "Put up or shut up". The claim regarding the two individuals was contained in an article in Ireland on Sunday two weeks later, which stated that the two people concerned had suggested setting up the scheme in the first place and that the criteria governing applications were changed to facilitate one of those persons.
Subsequently, Deputy Fahey made a complaint to the Committee on Procedures and Privileges about what had been said about him but he failed to secure the necessary support to censure Deputy Sargent who, in December 2006, made a complaint to the Standards in Public Office Commission specifically citing the Lost at Sea scheme as one of the reasons to investigate the then Minister, along with his involvement in the Corrib gas pipeline and the allocation of 14,000 tonnes in quota to the Atlantic Dawn. This trawler, using a national asset, is currently fishing off the west coast under the name of a Dutch consortium."

He went onto say: “Of the 67 applicants between June 2001 and the closing of the scheme on December 31, only six were accepted. €2.8 million was paid out to those six successful applicants to buy replacement tonnage. Two of the then Minister’s constituents got 75 per cent or €2.1 million of the total funds. It was later discovered that although the scheme did not close until December 31 2001, that Minister Fahey had written to his two constituents in October congratulating them on being successful. Apparently Minister Fahey’s two constituents were the people who originally suggested establishing the scheme.

“It was also found that one of those persons did not actually qualify but he appealed and was accepted in 2003 with one of the reasons cited for the award being the fact that Minister Fahey’s letter of congratulations had created the reasonable expectation that he would in fact receive compensation."

Apologies for pasting this stuff. I don't have a link to it.

I wonder if Trev can remember what the high moral ground felt like?

He is a bona fide sewer rat now.

[FakeViking]

I wonder if Trev can remember what the high moral ground felt like?

He is a bona fide sewer rat now.

He certainly is. Their Green ideology didn't last long when the late Seamus Brennan told them they were playing Senior Hurling. I feel sorry for those genuine environmentalists who voted for these muppets in the belief that they were going to change things, but they ended up as lobby fodder for FF.

[stanley]

Thanks. In fairness this has been brewing since 2006, it's back in the domain after O'Reilly asked the Oireachtas to intervene and make a judgement on the compensation for the Byrne's.

I don't like Frank Fahey, not on a personal level, he just represents the kind of politics we need to dispense with. I'm raising the subject here because a) the government are wheeling him out on NAMA debates which pretty much tells you all you need to know about their ethics and b) it's a further reminder to Trevor Sargent and the Greens about how far they have fallen. (thanks for the highlight Kerrygold)

A plague on all their houses!

Fahey is doing what all little FF'ers do, deny everything get it put to a vote asap, we have the numbers, let them all fup off, this will blow over.

Pretty soon Fahey will be back on the mat with his Limerick associated property dealings which no doubt he is trying to get into Nama, rapid.

Will INS and Anglo blow this guy apart or will he survive to reap the benefits of his mate Mulryan at the London Olympics.