Trevor Sargent in hot water over headed notepaper letter to Garda

[EvotingMachine0197]

Joe Duffy says Sargant is a very religious individual who organises prayer meetings in Leinster House. What on earth has religion got to do with the price of turnips!? This country is starting to sound like the US. Totally irrelevant detail Joe!

Lettuce pray.

[Kerrygold]

Some Green on Newstalk now!

[The_Big_Fellow]

This will be a Dail resigning issue, not just ministerial.

That is actually true.

[Disabled student]

When is the date that GP pensions to be signed off?

if so, that will give them great opportunity to withdraw from the Government or stay put until 2012 to see all their votes wiped out!!

[NewGoldDream]

Part of me thinks it's a bit of a storm in a teacup.

I mean, I've can think of one FF TD who made representations on behalf of a paedophile. And one Labour TD who was a character witness in the trial of a man who was convicted (albeit overturned on appeal) of raping two sisters.

Yes, they were different issues, different stages in a prosecution etc. But perhaps Sargent should get the same slap on the wrists as they got, and all TDs reminded yet again to stay away from the legal process entirely.

[kerrynorth]

This is fantastic! 1 by 1 they are being picked off.

Then you end up with Beverly Flynn as Minister of Finance, Michael Lowry as Minister for Communications and Natural Resources and JHR as Minister for the Environment!

[MsAnneThrope]

If Trevor goes, who in the Government is going to tell us the best time to plant our vegetables?

Someone will turnip to fill the void, lettuce hope. Someone who has bean there, dung that.

[libertarian-right]

Trevorwatch has informed me newstalk have posted the following:

Commissioner wants answers after Green Minster intervenes with Gardai.

The Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy is seeking a full report on the representations made to the gardaí by Junior Minister Trevor Sargent.

Commissioner wants answers after Green Minster intervenes with Gardai | Newstalk - Ireland's National Independent Talk Radio Broadcaster

[The_Big_Fellow]

If the latter is a problem then every TD, Senator and County Councillor in the Country is up the creek.

Someone is putting a lot of spin power behind this story.

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If you know of any FF'ers at this, please do PM me. I'm sure that the good people here on P'ie would be more than happy to help out in funding FOI appliocations.

(I have no doubt that there are numerous FF'ers at this)

[White Horse]

Part of me thinks it's a bit of a storm in a teacup.

I mean, I've can think of one FF TD who made representations on behalf of a paedophile. And one Labour TD who was a character witness in the trial of a man who was convicted (albeit overturned on appeal) of raping two sisters.

Yes, they were different issues, different stages in a prosecution etc. But perhaps Sargent should get the same slap on the wrists as they got, and all TDs reminded yet again to stay away from the legal process entirely.

Did those other TDs ask for the charges to be dropped?