Declaration of members interests

[KingKane]

Get them while they are hot.

Dail members here

Seanad Members

So far I've found the following to be of interest

There is a remarkable (hence my remarking on it) lack of consistency about this, some reps list their Dail income as occupational income many others don’t are they supposed to or not?

And I’m kind of surprised that so few own shares in anything. Maybe it is a generational thing.

Some like Joe Costello list their SSIA while the majority appear not to list them. (I can’t imagine that the majority of TD didn’t take out an SSIA)

Tony Dempsey has an apartment in Cypress (sic)! Does anyone check this record properly? I mean seriously I recall reading the local elections expenditure reports and we had barefaced falsehood such as Maurice Ahern spending on €750 on his entire election campaign, but that is non-binding the register of Dail interests in a meant to be proper track of what people have and there is no consistency to the thing at all.

John Ellis, says he has no shares in excess of 13,000 (that is individually I take it) but his colleague Martin Brady lists the €8,400 in shares he has in the credit union. If these guys can’t fill in a form on their own interests properly then what use might they be to the average punter in helping them navigate the bureaucracy of the state.


Michael McDowell who lists below interests in 4 properties doesn’t seem to list his holiday home down the country in Roscommon that had the planning issues a while back - could be he sold it. Or is it an oversight?

(1) Half interest as tenant in common of land adjoining home in Ranelagh. (2) 9 Manders Terrace, Dublin 6. (3) 10% interest in block in Eastpoint Office Park, Dublin 1. (4) 33 Old Bond Street, London (part ownership).

Other Information Provided: All owned jointly with spouse.

And Willie O’Dea lists nothing under either Occupational Income or Gifts or Property and Service or Remunerated Position or Contracts. So is his column in the Sindo for free and it isn’t advertising? Surely that has to be counted as a gift in either a free national mouthpiece or something he is paid for?

[FutureLabourLeader]

Interesting...

Richard Bruton has shares in practically all the banks

Mary Coughlan Gift Ornamental first edition tractor: Tinney's Ltd., Letterkenny.

[MacCoise]

Ned O'Keefee has shares in Shell

[FutureLabourLeader]

Willie O'Dea is big into the African Gold and Diamond mining

[KingKane]

Willie O'Dea is big into the African Gold and Diamond mining

And Petrol, I would have thought nothing of it if Willie's background was in engineering or science, but he's a legal beagle/accountant.

[aodh_rua]

I see our local FF Junior Minister Sean Power tops the poll with nearly a fifth of the total donations and 150% of all that came in to the Fine Gael coffers. I wonder why he is so popular.

See RTÉ.ie

[KingKane]

I see our local FF Junior Minister Sean Power tops the poll with nearly a fifth of the total donations and 150% of all that came in to the Fine Gael coffers. I wonder why he is so popular.

See RTÉ.ie

He has significant interests in horse related industries perhaps they are more willing to take a bet on him and that is the reason for his attractiveness.

[MINISTER]

I wonder who Cullens' benefactor is who is paying for all the Billboard posters in Waterford proclaiming him to be a great fellow. The only thing he has done in Waterford is give the bloody electronic machines to a friend of his to store at an absolutely outrageous cost and to give the builders free reign to do what they want.