Greenwashed Building Businessman Appointed Chairperson of DDDA Developers Autocracy.
DDDA Developers Autocracy Gets New Improved Greenwashed Building Industry Chairman.
From now on it’s Green Bananas at the Autocracy.
On March 2, 2009 or so, Mr John Gormley appointed a successful and no doubt very honourable businessman from the Green-FF building industry to be the new chairman of the Dublin Docklands Development Autocracy.
Is this appropriate in light of the Green-FF building industry’s leading role in the national bankruptcy?
Why is the businessman billed by Green-FF and by Green-FF controlled RTE as a ‘Green Entrepreneur’ when he is actually a Building Entrepreneur, similar to millions of small contractors in North America and the Continent?
Was there an open competition for the position?
If so, what were the criteria?
The Green-FF Building Industry’s Pyramid Scheme wrecked Ireland and misdirected billions in national potential. The cynical Developers Autocracy continues to wreck Dublin Bay which DDDA cynically re-labels as ‘Poolbeg’ to fool the trusting citizen. Apart from perhaps indirectly firing three hundred workers at the closed Irish Glass Bottle factory, DDDA may have done good work in the past. Is DDDA now misdirecting national potential? Did DDDA facilitate Anglo-Irish Bank in its diddling of taxpayers for a current estimate of €19,987,654,321?
Shut the DDDA now.
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FOOTNOTE, March 3, 2009
‘Legal corruption’ high in absence of accountability
IRELAND SUFFERS high levels of “legal corruption” because of the Green-FF Government’s failure to make political parties, large corporations and government bodies more publicly accountable.
Ireland’s shortcomings include:
- Risk of patronage and corruption in appointments to State boards.
More: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0303/1224242150495.html
This report by the anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International is based on comprehensive research carried out over three years into the integrity of the different pillars of the State, encompassing government, parliament, courts, law and order, the public service and the media.
Dublin Developers Autocracy, Dublin Docklands Authority, Gormley, Green Party,
March 25, 2009 at 3:11 am
Finfacts Team
Mar 25, 2009
The Irish Independent reports that the Green party was humiliated yesterday after Minister John Gormley’s nominee as Chairman of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) was forced to step down after just weeks in the job.
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Mr McCaughey was branded a “Green crony” in the Dail by Labour leader Eamon Gilmore.
A Green party spokesman subsequently claimed the Greens still had “full confidence in his ability to do the job”.
http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1016279.shtml
March 25, 2009 at 3:30 am
Mr McC. had only taken over the role of chairman of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority four weeks ago, replacing Donal O’Connor, who is now the executive chairman of Anglo Irish Bank.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0325/breaking17.htm
March 25, 2009 at 8:17 am
March 25, 2009
Gormley goes green as McCaughey news leaks
MIRIAM LORD
DÁIL SKETCH: JOO DILIGENCE fell off the wagon yesterday afternoon.
As Brian Cowen spoke in the Dáil, a dull thud was heard from somewhere in the vicinity of the Government benches. It was the familiar sound of the bibulous Ms Diligence as she buckled, prior to being carried out yet again.
On this occasion, the Taoiseach abandoned his practice of announcing the latest distressing episode to the House, because by now, everyone is well used to Joo Diligence being carried out.
However, he revealed that the heavy-lifting duties are currently being shouldered by a couple of strong men – later identified as the “public interest” board members of the troubled Two Fingers Building Society.
For the next few weeks, they will be carrying out Ms Diligence at regular intervals until her brother, Due Process, comes to collect her.
The trigger for this relapse was news that Michael “Fingers” Fingleton, the boss of a minor financial institution, was paid a huge cash bonus by his company after it had to be bailed out by hard-pressed taxpayers.
And once they saved his bacon, Fingleton sank his snout straight back into the Two Fingers Building Society trough, trousering a highly undeserved million euro.
Because he’s worth it.
A bit like Gerry McCaughey, pillar of the timber-frame construction industry and the Green Party’s pet businessman. Only recently, Minister John Gormley appointed him chairman of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA).
Gerry’s worth it too, even if he doesn’t have a nickname like Josef Locke lookalike Fingleton, or Seánie Fitzpatrick aka The Borrower. Gerry is part of the new breed of Irish business people. He appears on programmes like Questions and Answers. He’s the sort of bloke you would look up to. He certainly impressed his patron, Minister Gormley. “One of our most successful Green entrepreneurs, and in the past decade, he has shown clear leadership on issues including regulatory reform and sustainable practices.” That’s what the Green Party leader said when putting Gerry in charge of the DDDA, as Labour’s Eamon Gilmore cruelly reminded him yesterday.
But the man with no nickname, at least in Deputy Gilmore’s eyes, appears to be no different to Seánie and Fingers. He avoided paying over €4 million in tax to the Irish exchequer in 2005.
According to the leader of the Labour Party, Mr McCaughey “legally avoided the payment of Capital Gains tax by the convenient means of transferring the shares of his spouse, who then transferred herself to Italy for the best part of a year to qualify as a tax exile.” Mr McCaughey stepped down from his position yesterday evening.
In fairness, Gerry McCaughey did nothing illegal. He had made around €23 million when his company was sold. Had his missus not gone down the exiled for tax purposes route, he would have had to pay over €4 million to the taxman here.
That would have left him with, oh, around €19 million. How could anyone be expected to live on that? Meanwhile, the case of Fingers Fingleton and his Two Fingers Building Society rumbles on. Enda Kenny demanded to know what the Government intends to do about getting back the million pound bonus paid to Two Fingers by his building society after it was bailed out.
It was at this stage that the familiar thud reverberated around the chamber. Joo Diligence, on the sauce again, about to be carried out.
Sure enough, the Taoiseach talked of how the issue would have to be thoroughly investigated.
There’s only so much people can put up with. At this stage, the Opposition is becoming sick and tired of the antics of Ms Diligence. How many times must the poor woman be carried out before the Government sees sense and starts acting decisively? The Fine Gael leader pointed out that the principal fact had been established beyond dispute – Two Fingers Fingleton was paid a million euro after the taxpayer saved his bacon.
What more is there to discover? He said his Government had the legal power to demand the return of the bonus. The Taoiseach talked about exploring all the options available. Furthermore, with the two “public interest” board members busy carrying out Joo Diligence, his Finance Minister “will ensure that he gets to the bottom of the issue.” This is a departure from traditional Fianna Fáil practice, which is to get to the top of every issue. Accordingly, where Two Fingers Fingleton is concerned, Minister Lenihan is not climbing every tree in the Two Fingers Building Society, rather, he is plumbing the depths in search of evidence.
Which appears to be in front of his nose. Going by what the Dáil is now hearing on a regular basis, there seems to have been a rottenness and rank hypocrisy underpinning the upper echelons of Irish business.
This article appears in the print edition of the Irish Timeshttp://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0325/1224243368489.html