Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

There is more to it than that. This person is still on the board. For example, according to the profit and loss account, in 2007, when the same director was living in Dalkey, he claimed €458 in expenses to travel to Dún Laoghaire eight times a year. In 2008, when he was living in Cork, he claimed €1,300 per meeting to travel from there. The fare for a return train journey to Cork is €71 and it costs €25 for a taxi from Heuston Station to Dún Laoghaire and probably a similar amount for a taxi in Cork. That totals approximately €170, yet he claimed €1,300. In February 2009, the chief executive officer used the company credit card to pay for dinner and accommodation in the Royal Marine Hotel for guests, partners and so on, even though most of them lived in the Dún Laoghaire area. A sum of €450,000 was paid to consultants for fantastic, unrealisable plans. This equated to a cost of €10,000 per day to a company that is losing the same amount per day but the workers are being asked to take swingeing pay cuts. Will the Minister look into this? It is unacceptable. Jobs are being slaughtered while people at the top are abusing expenses.

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