Is this guy a complete moron? You dont use an office print to print thousands of leaflets! This what commercial printers are for.

That’s quite a bit of toner.

I wonder who paid for the paper the toner ended up on?

The excuse doesn’t sound right to me. You would need industrial printers to print that amount of leaflets.

The proud claim to be ” most prolific leafleters in the country” illustrates the total disconnect between the polictians and the public , not a care in the world that this is public money being used so flagrantly .It really just goes to show that for all their bluster , these guys have their noses as deep in the public trough as the rest. Not exactly the greenest of policy either!

And amazingly 25% of voters think that this shower are a viable alternative to the government.

so his excuse is pretty much that it would be too expensive to pay for it himself??

O’Snodaigh is a weasel. His political career will be most remembered for bursting through the Taoiseach’s entrance to Leinster house with his ‘followers’, being not quite sure what to do when the gates gave way & then being put on his arse by that lone guard! The guard should have immediately promoted to sergeant for that

How much more of this blatant brass necked nonsense are ordinary people going to take? It’s a bloody disease! I heard him on the radio trying to justify it. My 7 year old son could even tell he was waffling!

Possibly the worst part for me is the way he brings in the protests over the proposed closure of Crumlin Children’s Hospital as an excuse for his actions. That’s just pure scummy behaviour but then again we’re talking about Sinn Fein here so what else can you expect?

I am not one bit surprised hearing Sinn Fein taking all they can from the Irish people, this shower are more corrupt morally and ethically than any other party in Ireland. Propaganda is the best skill they have which unfortunately 25% of Irish people have fallen for according to the latest opinion poll. The Nazis said all the right things to the German people back in the thirties. Make no mistake this shower of gangsters and criminals would turn Ireland into their own fiefdom more corrupt than anything we can imagine.

Everyone know that desktop printers are ridiculously expensive when it comes to printing large amounts. The fact that they are using these desktop printers to print such a high amount of leaflets shows that the likes of Ó Snodaigh, looking like a particularly pompous village idiot in the above photo, are so far removed from the real world that it would be laughable if it wasn’t so wanton.

And we see a commercial printers going out of business yesterday with the loss of 60 jobs?ridiculous stuff.

inkredible!

I wonder was that around the time that Aongus and his merry men led a vicious assault on the rear gates of Leinster House until they opened and a brave Garda waved his baton and dispersed them !
They could have walked in the front door and collected the cartridges like everyone else.

What a fool. What a waffler. His answers on morning Ireland showed contempt for the taxpayer paying for these ink cartridges. His constituents must be knee deep in leaflets!

This is theft. Has it been reported to the Gardai?

All printers keep a page count, if the Oireachtas IT unit recorded these regularly it would be very easy to check if he did actually use his printer for all these prints or not.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh might have questions to answer but I have one too…

Where in gods name is the Dail buying these cartridges from?
I bought FOUR for a colour laser printer and including tax, etc that is usually lumped on, including transport costs, I got mine far, far cheaper!
€130 each for one? I honestly can buy four for that Cyan, Magenta, Black and Yellow – the basic ones needed for a laser colour printer).

Someone seriously needs to do better sourcing at the Dail!

Hang on, they were cartridges for Dell printers but used for an “industrial photocopier”? What were they doing, breaking them open, or just taking the dye out?

He would have saved Wood Printcraft
If he’d given them his workload,and perhaps he would have had more time
do what he was paid for.

I wonder what model pf printer these toners are for. I suspect the dail is being charged a premium. Ill bet the private sector could get them cheaper, that should be part of the story….

The people who claim they try defend the interests of the ‘ordinary people’. I don’t know any ‘ordinary’ person who spends 50k on ink, just so that he can make his face seen.

It’s ironic that no shinners are on today to defend this clown. You couldn’t get a word in here yesterday when they were defending people’s reaction to the latest polls.
Maybe there all at the ink laundering plant in Monaghan?

He must have been printing An Phoblacht.

Thats disgusting and i really hope Sinn Fein take serious action

If there is enough ink in €50,000 worth of cartidges to print approximately 2 1/4 million A4 pages, and if one printer works day and night every day to print a page every 3 seconds, (maths is not my strong point, somene else take this up, will you?) then I calculate that one printer would need 4 years and three months + to use all that ink.

Not allowing for time to change cartridges, have a snooze, eat your brekkie, brush your teeth etc.

If Deputy O’ Snodaigh had 3 printers working 40 hours a week each it would take him 5 years + to use all that ink.

At €50,000 and 2,250,000 printed sheets, though, I think the above figures are very conservative.

What did he do with all that ink? Bathe in it?

Maybe he gave some to the banks, which they could use to make explosive money markers, in case his ex-pals in the ex-IRA came by to make some unauthorised withdrawals with their Kalshnikovs.

Where are all the used cartridges?

I though his claim that it wasn’t electioneering was the most bizarre. Of course distributing loads of flyers to your electorate is an attempt to influence the way they vote in future is therefore electioneering. Another Irish gombeen politician.

Its a bit of a pain in the backside hearing the “industrial wage” line trotted out by Sinn Fein as if they are doing the country a huge favour financially. There not. Their full wage is the same as the other TDs. They draw it down in full, and donate the remainder to the party. They claim their expenses just as much as other TDs, as seen here, which would bring their wage packet up a hefty sum all the same. Donating to their party isn’t benefiting the states coffers. Its benefiting the Sinn Fein party.

Ink isn’t cheap and neither is paper to be printing on. Its an absolute disgrace that he is using our money to pay for their letters and leaflets at such an alarming level. No TD, regardless of party, should be allowed abuse the fund this much. Its a bit rich getting a leaflet objecting to the cuts and taxs yet they are all on the gravy train themselves, and this particular bill is 1.5 the industrial wage for chirst sake. Sinn Fein TDs start on a lower wage scale but make up for the donation to their party by jumping on the expenses gravy train.

Its time people got real thinking Sinn Fein are any better.

It would work out much cheaper to get them printed professionally and would be good for the economy and jobs.

Has anyone checked to see if he has a shop up on eBay?

Probably selling them on EBay , to fund the ’cause’ ! !

Thankfully, thats small compared to the 70 million that will be wasted in the next few months as Ireland takes over the EU presidency for 6 months!
See: http://www.joe.ie/news-politics/current-affairs/is-the-eu-presidency-really-worth-e70m-to-ireland-0021162-1

“A report in the Sunday Times suggests that the Irish Government has allocated €25m in spending for this year, in order to ‘prepare’ for the presidency, and €35m for 2013, but expects the total to be in excess of €70m.”

Madness!
I read the report in the Times and they mention that others states have done it for FAR less – yet we are going on a spending spree while taking on the role!
Madness heaped upon more daily madness by our governments!

I’d be interested in finding out if €130 is the price the government should be paying for each cartridge. Sounds very expensive.

to be fair the only positive i can see here is that someone saw what he was doing here and changed the rules to stop him! no excuse for spending 50k of our money on his nonsense but better than if he was doing it still!

If I used €50k worth of print supplies or stationary at work for personal means I’d be fired and would probably have criminal charges brought against me. Why should it be different if this is done with state assets?

I wonder if he recycled the empty cartridges?? One way to solve this nonsense would be issue TDs with 3 packs of cartridges at start of season, and only when they hand an empty one back, they get a replacement. Most ink-jet printers would need to be going leather for hell to produce that amount of literature – who paid for the paper?? Also, how many actual printers did he go through?? I know if you use a printer anyway “heavy duty” it dies after a reasonably short period! Id say there is more to this story than meets the eye lol. Anyone check gumtree.ie or donedeal.ie to see if anyone in Dublin selling large quantities of ink cartridges as a “sideline” lol.

i’d love to know if he claimed printing expenses on top of it all!

It looks excessive because it is. Worse still he knew it wasn’t economical yet continued, and the printers used/amount printed doesn’t add up. Shocking amount spent on ink. Ugh…politicians

A disgraceful attack on Aengus O’Snodaigh! He only took the average industrial toner allowance.

It’s a bit like the average industrial wage fallacy that SF have indulged in for years.

They may well on paper at least, take home the average industrial wage, but the rest is still drawn down, and ends up in party coffers. Of course they do have their expenses to fall back on.

Even when they don’t attend the parliament in the first place-as with Westminster, where they refused to take up their seats, and still claimed over half a million pounds in second home allowances alone.

How could it be possible that a TD is entitled to use Dail supplied printing ink for political activities that take place off campus.
It is reasonable and straightforward to see a situation where printing inks would be supplied by the House for work undertaken within its precincts but the systematic removal of industrial quantities over a two year period by this individual makes the entire matter sound more like misappropriation .
The taxpayer should not be expected to pick up the tab for Sinn Feins Constituency costs and this matter makes Ivor Callelys mileage expenses look quit reasonable!
Mr O’Snodaigh should be asked if all these cartridges are now verifiably put beyond use!

Sinn Fein specialise in soundbite politics that appeal to the ‘tell me what I want to hear and don’t bore me with the facts’ brigade. God help our poor batter and bruised country if the ever got into power. They’d finish us off completely. That’s why I delight that this has come to light. It shows that despite their holier than thou rhetoric that they are just as bad as the rest of them.

“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

Either way…. If Sinn Fein are to be given credibility as to them being able to drive Ireland out of a recession when they demonstrate the most recklessness in commercial terms then I think it highlights they are a shower of wasters, literally.

So what do they get these big wars of cash for??
Ridiculous. They should be made buy these cartridges themselves…at least!

Politics & ticians are all the bloody same!

FF’s new slogan against SF: “Even Bertie wasn’t that thick.”

Sounds like bullshit to me Angus. And if you were using an office laser or inkjet printer/printers which as others have indicated then you are either an idiot or a shyster. And I gave Sinn Fein a reasonable vote in the recent election….sigh

Reada is quiet!!! For once!!!

If he spent this amount of time printing leaflets informing people what he was doing in the Dáil all he could possibly print would be ‘I spend my time printing leaflets’

The atitude by the shinners is a disgrace.

Why can’t he apologise & repay back the money.

The Healy Raes did – why would we accept lower standards from the shinners?

Pierce Doherty is very upset. ya see, he thought he was the “poster boy”…

Let’s start asking reasonable questions such as the following;
Did O’Snodaigh physically remove these cartridges from Dail Eireann himself?
We’re they packaged or secreted on his person or placed in his briefcase to avoid detection?
Did he instruct anyone else such as a Sinn Fein employee to remove them?
Where precisely is the office at which this printing was carried out?
Were Dail printers also used at this address?
If so were they removed from Dail Eireann with permission?
If so could we be supplied with the name of……etc etc etc
How are the foregoing question any different to those that Sinn Fein would ask of Fine Gael or Labour or Fianna Fail if the roles were reversed. Isn’t it time for them to start behaving like a political Party?

Has he never heard of email? He essentially spent €50,000 of the publics money on putting rubbish into the public’s letter boxes.

Same gene pool as Ivor Callely etc etc

I hope the gardai look into it and if it is fraud or theft that he is prosecuted,
To Quote Jim Royle………………….. prolific leafleter my arse

Oh dear now ye know what the rest of us knew already. Sinn Fein are just as corrupt as.the rest of them. Id rather see Fianna fail in charge than these monkeys.

His printers should be seized and the “count” examined , to prove that he , along with the rest of the Sinn Fein party are just pure liars ! !

People of Ireland – wake up – they are trying to deceive us .

Not supporting FF , but as Michael Martin asked , “what is it the Sinn Fein obsession with printing ?”. – I think we know now what o snodaig was really at ! ! !

Nothing as annoying as leaflets thru the door either.

“would have been known as the most prolific leafleters in the country”

Never heard of him.
I want the taxes back that were spent on this, he can keep his leaflet.