General Election 2016

Julio_Geordio · February 17, 2016, 2:28pm

TreatyStones:

Former Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore’s wife has been appointed to a major education post with a salary of up to €136,000.

Carol Hanney is to take over as CEO of the City of Dublin Education Board (CDETB), just as Mr Gilmore becomes eligible to start drawing from a €2m pension pot on the back of his political career.
The current CEO Jacinta Stewart is retiring at the end of the month - and Ms Hanney has been offered the position without it being advertised externally. The move has led to criticism from one member of the board which rubber-stamped the appointment, who says he was “furious”.

Councillor Andrew Keegan told the Irish Independent: “I don’t know the woman or whether she’s the best person for the job but there hasn’t been an open process.”
No other members of the board made any objection to the appointment.

Ms Hanney was previously the chief executive of Dun Laoghaire Vocational Education Committee (VEC) but it was subsumed into the education and training board in 2013.
At the time there was controversy when Ms Hanney was redeployed to work as a policy specialist on further education and training in Ruairi Quinn’s Department of Education.
Mr Gilmore, who was Tánaiste at the time, totally refuted allegations of cronyism.
Asked about Ms Hanney’s promotion to CEO, which takes effect on March 1, the Department of Education said it is the result of an agreement reached with the relevant trade union when 33 former VECs were merged into 16 ETBs.
At the time there was not a sufficient number of posts at the grade of chief executive officer to accommodate all of the existing post holders who had been appointed in a permanent capacity.

But it was agreed that those who did not get a CEO position would be first in line for any future vacancies before recruitment via the Public Appointments Service could be considered.

“In accordance with the aforementioned redeployment arrangements, Ms Carol Hanney was offered assignment as chief executive of City of Dublin ETB with effect from March 1, 2016, and she accepted the offer,” a spokesperson for the department said.

The CDETB said Ms Hanney will be “responsible for the education, training and youth services provision in the city of Dublin provided for in the Education and Training Board Act 2013”. The salary for the job is between €119,381 and €136,276.

Ms Hanney was previously involved in controversy after selling a site in Killimore, Co Galway, to the State for €525,000 in 2007. She responded to a public advertisement seeking land for a new school.
Irish Independent

No shame. You’d think he’d have learned from the last time, not that he gives a fuck

Nembo_Kid · February 17, 2016, 2:31pm

Why is she referred to as Ms Hanney?

TreatyStones · February 17, 2016, 2:31pm

They just don’t give a fuck.
All the major parties should be given a spell on the sidelines to see if they might learn the error of their ways.

TheUlteriorMotive · February 17, 2016, 2:34pm

He protected members of a young musicians’ group?

Julio_Geordio · February 17, 2016, 2:38pm

At least Fianna Fáil mugged us off with some bit of class.

glasagusban · February 17, 2016, 2:48pm

How did that work out for Fine Gael?

croppy_boy · February 17, 2016, 2:50pm

He said major parties.

Little_Lord_Fauntleroy · February 17, 2016, 2:53pm

Gerry went to the Police mate

TreatyStones · February 17, 2016, 2:53pm

I meant out in the cold at the same time.

croppy_boy · February 17, 2016, 2:59pm

Really?

Covery Up 1
Adams says he knew of IRA connection to Mairia Cahill abuse claims

Cover Up 2
Probe into alleged Gerry Adams ‘cover up’

glasagusban · February 17, 2016, 3:09pm

What difference would that make?

Nembo_Kid · February 17, 2016, 3:10pm

The Provos held court and found the accused guilty, you idiot.

Baldy Noonan didn’t want to address these issues.

croppy_boy · February 17, 2016, 3:15pm

The Provos held court??? Excellent.

My nephew did the same i.e. make up a court when when he was 6 and wanted to appeal for a later bed time. The of the living room I believe they called it. He was very successful as the jury was comprised of himself and his 4 year old brother who was hoping to cite the case as precedence for a similar action he was planning to take up himself.

It was as valid as the make believe court that you’re referring to there.

Look I’m saying that Noonan is completely and utterly in the wrong for covering up the case of abuse and not reporting it to the correct authorities.

I’m also saying that Adams was completely in the wrong for covering up the cases and not reporting it to the correct authorities.

Nembo_Kid · February 17, 2016, 3:20pm

You’re saying Adams covered up child abuse.

A) His niece went to the police to make a statement
B) Mairia Cahill did not want to go to the RUC so the Provos held their own court and found the accused guilty.

How do these incidents explain Adams was involved in a cover up?

myboyblue · February 17, 2016, 3:22pm

@rocko its happening again

croppy_boy · February 17, 2016, 3:33pm

Don’t worry. I’m not going to feed this bull crap for long.

Nembo_Kid · February 17, 2016, 3:34pm

No substance, empty accusations, @croppy_boy.

croppy_boy · February 17, 2016, 3:44pm

If you read the two links you’d have your substance.

Adams’ brother confessed committing the abuse to him during a walk in Louth in 2000. His niece didn’t report the abuse until 2011, it had come out in a 2009 documentary. There’s 9-11 years of not reporting the abuse right there.

What Ms Cahill wanted to report is irrelevant whatever the case. It would be akin to saying that the victims in any case are charged with permitting people to report them, or where they report them.

Would you use the same excuse if one of the victims in the Waterford foster home case said that they would have preferred not to have the abuse reported to the relevant authorities?

Nembo_Kid · February 17, 2016, 3:53pm

Again, empty accusations without any substance. How did Adams cover up child abuse, point out the specifics that show this or shut up. Bear in mind that Adams has been questioned re his brother’s abuse and released without any charge.

Do you know more about this than the relevant authorities?

Mairia Cahill did not want RUC involvement in this case, it was dealt with in respect to her requests.
Aine Adams made a statement to the police following her disclosing the abuse to her uncle. The RUC failed to act on these allegations.

So here you are claiming that the the Provos should have went and reported allegations to a police force who had no interest in following them up and in doing so, going against the wishes of the person who made the allegations.

Baldy Noonan, didn’t want to know anything about child sex abuse allegations when it was not only his duty to hear these allegations but also to act on them.

Nembo_Kid · February 17, 2016, 3:54pm

Wrong, his niece reported the abuse in 1987 to the RUC. Why do you try and continually mislead people with lies?