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These are costs related to Irish Parliamentary Association (IPA) travel for 2009. Released by the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission.
These are costs related to Council of Europe, OSCE, PACE, Western European Union, EuroMed and EMPA. The total is €108,671.80. The data includes trips by Frank Fahey, Ivor Callely, Pat Breen, Joe O’Reilly, Terry Leyden and Cecilia Keaveney.
As part of an ongoing process. The appointments diary of then HSE chief executive Brendan Drumm for 2008 and 2009.
This is a breakdown of British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly costs for 2009. It totals at €20,656.41.
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In July a statutory instrument (S.I. No. 358/2010) was signed by Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, bringing a company called Bank of Ireland (UK) plc under the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008, otherwise known as the bank gurantee scheme. This is curious on a number of levels, and could be entirely innocent, but is nonetheless worth looking a little into.
Bank of Ireland (UK) plc was incorporated on September 17, 2009. Richie Boucher was appointed a director in March 2010, and it appears to have commenced business on April 1. Its most recent director appointment was on July 14, 2010, when Laurel Powers Freeling, the former chief executive of Marks and Spencers, was appointed.
Five days after the appointment of Freeling and a Robert Walker, Brian Lenihan signed the SI that brought Bank of Ireland (UK) plc under the guarantee. A number of questions arise, which I believe are fair to ask, given the level of support given by the State to Bank of Ireland.
What is the purpose of Bank of Ireland (UK) plc?
Why is Bank of Ireland establishing a new UK company at a time when it is supposed to be increasing lending in Ireland?
What is the renumeration of the directors of Bank of Ireland (UK) plc?
As I said, the purpose of establishing the company might be entirely run of the mill – I’m just posing the question.
Deposits from Irish Private Sector by category. Central Bank data. Notice the rapid fall in growth of deposits from November to December 2006, and the subsequent rapid fall. Anyone know where the repo stats for 2008 are gone?
As previously mentioned I am converting expenses data sent to me in PDF form back into spreadsheets. 2009 is the first. You might notice some missing data in the last few rows of the 13,388 claims – I will remedy this later this evening – sometimes the conversion process is a bit wonky. The database contains €1.65m of expense claims for 2009.
You can look at the data on Socrata or download it from there
This is the same figures broken down by payee, in order of size of total expense claim:
And the same under the mileage heading:
And a bar chart showing mileage claimants:
And a pie chart showing in what categories expenses are claimed:
And the spreadsheet for categories:
Last week I published information released by CIE in relation to the amount of diesel the company consumed over the five years from 2005 to 2009. I pointed out to CIE that their figures for totals, and as a result for carbon emissions, might be incorrect.
CIE have got back in touch to say that the figures were incorrect, and they have now issued revised figures. We all make mistakes.
The totals I published are the correct ones, so the revised figures are:
As part of an ongoing process. The appointments diary of the Minister for Finance for 2007.
Previously:
Finance diary May 2008 to March 2009
William Beusang diary May 2008 to May 2009
Ann Nolan diary May 2008 to May 2009
Derek Moran
Kevin Cardiff diary May 2008 to May 2009