Failures of accountability: please list examples.

[Congalltee]

Please add to list (i will update thread) of failures, scandals, waste of money where no one resigns or suffers any detriment.

Health
1. 58,000 x-rays in Tallaght not viewed by consultants.
2.30,000 referral letters for public mainly patients not opened in same hospital to ensure waiting list not added to.
3. P-pars cost.
4. Buying into swine flu pharma-scam.
5. Over subscription of non-generic drugs to subsidise the industry.
6. A litany of child abuse scandals eg Roscommon.

Justice
1. The price paid for Thornton Hall to a Senator's brother in law.
2. The number of young people dying in custody.
3. The Donegal corruption. Retirement is not punishment.

Economy
1. anglo getting the benefit of the bank guarantee.
2. Soft touch regulation.
3. Appointing an insider to AIB.
4. Nama - sadly Lenihan will never be held to account for it.
5. Cowen's term as minister for finance were public spending double digit increases were funded by boom receipts.

Other
1 selloff of vital off-shore assets to multinationals.
2 frank fahey use of lost at sea compensation scheme
3 Bev Flynn, liam twoomey not repaying their benefits when they stopped being independents.
4 olwyn enright and joe mchugh not repaying double claims.
5 cyclist ministers claiming travel allowance of 13k

Any more?

[Amach na Casca]

Evoting machines

[Fr. Hank Tree]

Nursing home overcharging?

[DCon]

Nobody from the Catholic church in court for raping kids, or covering up the raping of kids.

[controller]

CAB never went after the family and assets of CJ Haughey

[Craiced]

FAS It would require a thread of its own!

Good thread by the way! After 2 weeks we should collate all the information and start a chain e-mail!

Nothing will improve in this country until we have accountability.

[Congalltee]

Fianna Fail
Not pursuing Haughey, burke, lawlor, flynn and Ahern for the money which was due it it, but used for their personal use.

Fine Gael
Accepting corporate donations even after the lowry scandal and its pick me up scandal.
Its expenses claims are obscene.
Has the tax dodging councillor been expelled yet?

Sinn Fein
Apart from the whole unpleasentness of association with tkilling people, there has yet to be any accountability on Liam Adams.

Greens
The electorate will show them what accountability means.

[Congalltee]

The DDDA spending 400m on land. What idiot signed off on that?

The spending over-runs on Luas, port tunnel and motorways.

The massive over zoning for residential property. The granting of planning permission to buildings in flood plains.

[charley]

OPW spending is iffy as well

[markeys]

The Dublin Docklands Authority - massive sums of money invested, no return, no accountability. No checking by the then Minister of Finance (Clowen) of the rationale behind the decision. Cost to people: hundreds of millions.


Should I mention decentralisation?