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THREE FIANNA FÁIL senators who were present at the Oireachtas Golf Society dinner in Clifden have had the whip restored after a parliamentary party meeting this evening.
Senators Paul Daly, Aidan Davitt and Niall Blaney all attended the controversial golf dinner in August and subsequently had the whip withdrawn by Taoiseach Micheál Martin.
It is understood that after this evenings parliamentary party meeting, the three senators have had the whip restored.
All three senators released apologies after the event, saying that they should not have attended in the first place.
“With the changes to public health advice I should not have done so. As a public representative, it was a serious lapse of judgement on my part and I am truly sorry. I apologise unreservedly for the upset I have caused,” said Daly.
Blaney apologized for his errors in judgement and said he was conscious of the efforts being made by the general public.
“I am very conscious of the enormous effort by people to battle this virus and keep everyone safe. My attendance was therefore wrong and I apologise,” said Blaney
It comes after Fine Gael unanimously decided to readmit three senators at their parliamentary party meeting yesterday.
The motion itself was tabled by Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar.
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Wow! Now even the bins are spying on us. All we need now is for public toilets to record all our “movements” and the colour of our underwear and big brother will know all it possibly could about us. Who needs privacy?!
Good one shirley, “movements” lol!!
They likely already do. Think about the movement activated flushes and the movement activated lights.
*may or may not be serious, I’ll let you decide.
Ha ha, nice one Shirley, what colour is your under pants indeed………?
Public toilets testing your ‘movements’ has been proposed to screen for health problems. I think it would be a great idea really, provided the information was confidentially passed to a smart phone or emailed to you.
What underpants? Commando is the only way to go in this weather!
Good one Shirley.
“Colour of your underwear”..hmm
What if….What if the bins refuse to stop collecting data?
And so it begins…..
I love London, it’s my 34th favorite place in the world to be.
You’re my 34th favourite poster on the Journal.ie
That’s the 27th time somebody has said that to me
It would never work here – no bins.
So why, with so much surveillance, can’t they find the idiots who damaged signals so the Dart is out of action this morning
Those bins are in London
My god why cant a bin just collect rubbish? What next, laptops that recycle your lunch waste!?
My emails are already intercepted by my laptop and smartphone. Shocking.
The difference between hits on a website and this scenario is people are aware of cookies on their computer and informed again each time they go into a new website. Ya wouldn’t really be expecting a bin to be spying on you. A whole new meaning to bin it your way.
and strictly speaking web-sites aren’t supposed to share this with one another .. which is the focus of the rather big “Do Not Track” privacy-debate that is currently ongoing on the web …
How are people going to know if its collecting their data already?
How is the average Joe going to know they are going to turn it on or off in any case?
The government possibly already has this technology in bloody street lamps and we don’t know about it!
government = your elected representatives who have a security mandate (for better or worse)
Renew = a private enterprise, who may or may not flip your identity over to any bidder if times get tough
So now they will throw the bins in the rubbish, like a Big Brother has been!
Spooooky I means
Well I know “THEY” are spying on me. “THEY” keep taking money out of my pay cheque whether I like it or not.
Almost darlik like…sooooooky!
Just for future reference, it’s dalek.
Minority report.
Maybe they want to collect the parts for recycling. It is a good idea because some parts of phone are radio active.
Read the article again there chap.
Yes. But the same level of surveillance exists here in Ireland
If you think we have the same level of surveillance as they have in the UK, especially London, you’re either seriously paranoid or you’ve never visited the neighbours.
Most, if not all phone masts, are fitted with surveillance equipment here
Have you even read the article ???
My post was for Francis
You couldn’t piss crooked without them knowing it.
Has bins..
It looks like a Dalek prototype.
WTF!?
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