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An Taisce's quarry, is Michael McDowell!
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Tuesday June 28, 2005 08:51 by John McDermott - removefiannafail jmcd333 at yahoo dot com Gran Canaria ,Spain
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Is the Minister forJustice breaking the law.?
Well connected businessmen never need to follow the law of the land.
![Click on image to see full-sized version Fianna Fail ,bulldozing the law,as usual.](../attachments/jun2005/quarrying.jpg) Fianna Fail ,bulldozing the law,as usual. Perhaps one of the qualities which endears the Soldiers of Destiny to the hearts of so many camp followers throughout the land,is their buccaneering approach to all enterpreneurial activity,whether it be lawful or no. Bureaucratic procedures, i.e. 'the law of the land' -like the numerous state quangos which the party is forever adding to, are rightly considered to pose an obstacle to progress and profitability.A Justice Ministers duty is traditionally to circumvented and surmounted the law by whatever means possible.
Subverted it inevitably is, with the full cooperation of the Ministers of State who are responsible for its enforcement in the first place. Fianna Fail has produced a proud lineage of 'Justice' ministers who when appointed to this august post ,saw it as their primary task in office to subvert it.Their long term in office could be described as surreal theatre at its finest. Grotesque, unreal, bizarre, and of course -unprecedented.Ray Burke and Sean Doherty can attest to the accuracy of this .Michael McDowell appears to be moving in the same direction.
The Entrepreneurs of the " Soldiers" have a simple strategy. 'Follow the money', your (the taxpayers) money that is.! Currently that money is going to susidise farmers, car parks, private hospitals,hotels ,golf courses,asylum seeker accomodation,and- last but not least - new highways! These areas are currently the investments choice of many of the old soldiers,and friends of C.J.H.,such as the famous Larry Goodman..! The better off sections of irish society will be dying to get inside our Larry's new hospitals in the coming years.
John McQuaid(Quarries) Ltd up in border country(Monaghan) is highlighted in a recent edition of that shitstirring penny dreadful,the Phoenix Magazine. John found little difficulty in obtaining an explosives licence from Minister for Justice Michael McDowell,to ensure continuity of supply of construction materials to the N.R.A.(National Road Authority quango, for the new 50 million Euro Carrickmacross bypass on the N2.
The by- pass is being constructed by( to quote T.D. Conor Lenehan,) "a kebab outfit called Gama Construction"old friends of T.D. Joe Higgins.
The inconvenient requirement in law for planning permission for the quarry, was dealth with by the simple expedience of ignoring it. Those troublesome self appointed vigilantes ,in Tailors Hall, in Dublin namely " An Taisce", (a dirty word in Fianna Fail circles) have been pissing against a force ten gale up Monaghan way asking that an "environmental impact statement" (whatever that is?) be prepared by the local authorities.As most of the local councillors in Monaghan or Kerry ,or Donegal, would probably not know the difference between an illegal diesel factory and a cowshed-it is unlikely such a concept is within their grasp.The poor Taisceites have in desperation asked the Gardai Siochana to stop the flow of explosives,and also run off to Brussels to "report Bertie to the teacher" there! (thats been done before..a waste of energy it does not work. They tried it with the nitrates/sileage pollution problem.The only noise emanating from Brussels nowadays, that attracts any attention is the cheery chink of a decoupling cheque dropping in a rural letterbox-and even that appears to be in some jeapordy.Is nothing sacred anymore .No wonder our poor farmers are apoplectic.Writing to Tony Blair! Have they lost their reason as well?
Getting back to the main topic,seems the N.R.A. are continuing to use the "illegal" construction materials on the road,saying that its legality or otherwise is not a matter within their brief, their job is to see the roads are built as quickly as possible to avoid the wrath of the notoriously short fused Martin Cullen and his sidekick Dick Roche
.So get stuffed "An Taisce". Looks like Monaghan will end up with another "unapproved road".after all.!
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