Presidential candidate Peter Casey has described the breakdown of how President Michael D Higgins’s annual €317,000 allowance is spent as “self-promoting drivel” and “bullshit”. The greater part of the glossy publication was comprised of photographs of Mr Higgins, with only three pages of details of spending under the allowance. “It is 48 pages of self-promoting drivel,” Mr Casey told The Irish Times. “Citizens expect openness and transparency and full accountability as regards all spending of exchequer funds across all State entities including Áras an Uachtaráin. Hopefully this will be achieved by the annual publication of the promised Presidential review,” he said.

Source: The Irish Times December 15, 2018 00:33 UTC