I’m sick of it already.
It’s only been in the news for the past two days, but already I’m tired of the bickering, and the b*tching. Yes, someone spent $400 odd on a hair cut, or manicure, or something ridiculous. Yes, they paid for it using taxpayers money. Yes, they should not have.
Should this person be sacked?
No.
Asking for someone’s resignation over a $400 wash and blow-dry is silly, and not a little petty, considering the massive, and flagrant, throwing around of money over the past few years. I mean, €1.7 MILLION for a website that they didn’t even use? €50 MILLION for for a bunch of electronic voting machines that are still costing us money to store? €500 BILLION to prop up the banks that landed us in this recession in the first place?
Leave Mary Harney alone. I don’t agree with a lot of what she says, or much of her policies, but she is one of the least flamboyantly, financially extravagant of the lot in Leinster House.
Let’s start to focus on the real issues.