This is what politics in the Republic of Ireland has being reduced to: The Minister talking about shite with Lowry and talking shite to the rest of us. Vive La Republique!

I think it’s time Big Phil, the ignoramus, was relieved of his duties. One too many slip ups, albeit we are hardly surprised he has been shown up yet again for what an enourmous bluffer he is!

I wish this guy would have the good grace to resign, the man is a walking , talking Gaffe!

Go on Hogan be a true Patriot (with a capitol P) and do the right thing. Resign.

Self entitled people don’t resign, certainly not in this country.

True patriot.

“We’re all in this together” when they (Irish politicians) use that phrase what they actually they mean is “we are all crooks, and crooks look after each other” now back to work you scroungers i’ve got more taxes to collect and a big fat expenses sheet to fill in! Happy Easter suckers from big Phil!

What ever about the last government the current Fine Gael Ministers are arrogant beyond belief. They have no concept of reality and the string of broken promises behind them is a mile long. Hogan should resign!

This cretin should be thrown out of the government. Just for this insult to a lady alone http://www.independent.ie/national-news/minister-apologises-for-crude-sexual-insult-3053882.html

If this happened in the UK he would be made resign. Irish politics has no concept of honesty or dignity

There’s a song from “The Sound of Music” that springs to mind here. “So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good night,” Big Phil.

Big Phil YOU are screwed, disapppear please

phil hogan = septic tank

Time to go to you labour TD and tell them enough is enough. Either go the way of the greens or plug the plug on this sham of a government.
Leo, Phil and the stuffer of euros into the German banks noonan must go. As for Enda let him park cars in the whitehouse. He seems to like it there.

And so he goes very publicly lurching from disaster to disaster,you would imagine he isn’t stupid and realises his political career is over. I wonder whats going on behind our backs under cover of this headline hugging imbecile? could he be taking one or two for the team or am i just too cynical for my own good?

Yet all the spineless sheep still follow him into years of debt and bully boy tactics & more taxes. If someone told you this happened in another country you would just laugh at how stupid those people are.

Typical hipocracy from a typical politician. We need a real new political thinking in this country, one where politicians & government serve the people and not their own personal interests

This man is heading for a fall. He is being given enough rope to hang himself by the cunning Enda who now has no need for him. Remember who it was who faced down the opposition during the heave against Enda. That’s right Big Phil. Who stood behind whispering the answers during the media circus that was the General Election? Right again Big Phil. Who gets rolled out when the tough stuff needs to get done? And where is Enda the new Mr Teflon? We seek him here we seek him there but one place you won’t find him is near Big Phil. So he let’s his big bull loose to crash into the nearest mountain like the Brown Bull of Cooley. Who says the history doesn’t repeat itself?

You are a disgrace Hogan.

A quote from the above News article…What a fool!

Ms O’Connell who owns a number of buy-to-let properties, said she “took the opportunity to say to him that I hoped he would not ‘screw’ property owners in promised legislation.

“He replied in a loud voice: ‘I have no problem screwing you. Hasn’t Mairtin been screwing you for years.’ Then he turned his back on me and said: ‘Business tomorrow.’

Yet another double standard from a politician who refused to pay the service charge on his holiday home in Portugal…hmmm was that because he was not happy with the service????

Phil and Michael are actually very strong personal friends.
Nothing wrong with that in itself, but never be surprised when snakes speak with forked tongues.

Phil needs to take Outlook lessons. Mine has a Cancel Meeting button.

Maybe if the residents of Priory Hall had been corrupt, accepted bribes, and evaded tax instead of saving hard for deposits and buying their homes with hard earned money Hogan might have seen fit to meet us at some stage over the last 6 months. We were evacuated from our homes on the 17th of October 2011 and Hogan has refused to meet us since then using the courts as an excuse, even though the residents have not been before the courts in the last 6 months.
Phil Hogan is the minister responsible for Building Control regulations ( Prioryhall has serious breaches to building regulations including, Fire, Building Control and Planning ) . Surely he should meet the residents to discuss our concerns for our futures?

This is the same Minister who recently appointed Conor Taafe of Homebond fame to the Building Regulation Advisory Board. How was this appointment made personally by Hogan ( This was not an advertised position ) be allowed to happen? Given Homebonds close links to the controversy over insurance cover for homes destroyed by pyrite. These homeowners were left high and dry after HomeBond opted out of legal responsibility last year. HomeBond refused to attend the Oireachtas Environment Committee into the pyrite problems into 1000’s of homes. And now this Conor Taafe is on sitting on the Building Regulation Advisory Board? Surely this appointment should be reconsidered?

One of the first things Hogan did when he became Minister for the Environment was to put on ice the independent planning enquiries set up to investigate planning irregularities in various councils ( including investigations into Carlow and Kilkenny Councils, his own constituency ). These independent enquiries need to be re-opened immediately!

Hogan has stated numerous times that his department is working very closely with DCC on Priory Hall. He also stated in the Dail that the developers of Priory Hall were being brought to book!!!! Is the minister aware that DCC decided in same week that that the Mahon report was published not to contest property developer O Mahony’s appeal on his conviction for fire safety breaches at the Priory Hall apartment complex. O Mahony was convicted along with McFeely in April 2011 in the district court. DCC decided 2 weeks ago not to contest his appeal. Why would DCC have the developer convicted and then decide not to contest his appeal?

Background to O Mahonys conviction http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0404/prioryhall.html

Cmon guys, Phils a politician, elected in the land of make believe. He can do whatever the fuck he likes and there is diddle squat you can do about it. He knows it, in fact Phil baby is knockin back grande lattes and munching on muffins right this minute safe in the knowledge that he was elected by a nation of blowhards, bred to bend over and do what the fuck they’re told.

#Mark Lingard sadly has a point, your not cynical dude, large corporates love ex-politicians. Just ask Sean Sherlock, he’s not waiting till the end of term to secure his tenure at any number of corporate entities, that fucker cant wait till he is voted out. Just the thought of all those golden parachutes to choose from keeps him up nights.

This government is made up of gombeen men who havent the brains to realise that they will be annihilated at the next local elections to start with and then at a general election.
But of course they will all have qualified for the big ministeriall pension at that stage.
It would seem that the personal rewards are what irish politics is all about.
Time we changed that.

Time for Phil to go, time for Michael Martin to go, time for Willie o’Dea to go, time for John McGuinness to go.

Nothing ever changes. Hogan has to go at this stage. As much use as a chocolate tea pot

Due to the minister using electronic mail, he is unable to find out when or who requested this meeting. That’s a lie a big fooking lie. do they think us stupid,, perhaps you should check your received mails/requests Phil, and better still try to treat the people who elected you with at least an ounce of respect.

Hogan needs to resign right now

@Hairy Date

I suppose he has two expensive coffee machines like James Reilly, Minister for Health!! Costing huge money. One wasn’t enough, he put 2 on his expenses because he has two offices. Poor thing, I’d hate to see him without his expensive coffee, rich bikkies and cream cakes.

The Moriarty report mentioned the fact that the reason why so many FF were mentioned in the report was due to the fact they were in power more, this sort of cronyism shows that if FG were in power for the the time FF were, the tribunals would be full of FG heads.

Any way, most councils have been controlled by FG / Lab for the last decade and this is the root and branch of dodgy decisions and dubious relationships …… while FF were caught out, FG I have no doubt are just as bad.

Gilmore shoud give Enda an ultimatum. Get rid of Hogan or the walls come tumbling down.

@Mark,

Even, if we were lucky enough to see him being sacked or resigning, the b . . . ard will get a hefty retirement plan! We saw charlie haughey, a big gangster in every way, bertie aherne, even bigger, as he learned from haughey! But, the biggest gangsters and double standards of all is Bull Hogan and Fine Gael. They have had time to watch very closely, learn, and ultimately, be the best liars, gangsters, double standard party yet!

Double standards???? The average Irish voter is too naive to see even this much!

This is hilarious. People calling Hogan to resign for meeting Lowry, another democratically elected TD? Then the party whose members were gun runners and killers give out (and serial printers)? No wonder Ireland is so messed up!!

Lowry should have been out of politics years ago yet he still manages to get elected time and time again despite the knowledge of dealings revealed in the tribunal and previously with ben Dunne. The tribunal only put in writing what was widely known across a decade.

We get what we vote for.

Ah sure what’s wrong with that? Michael Lowry is a gentleman and a scholar, who had his name ruined by the “D4 media!” He was just handing Phil Hogan a brown envelope… the plans for a Casino in North Tipperary of course.

Hey Hogan you big lump ! Why wont you meet the residents of Priorly Hall and why wont you explain the Conor Taffe fiasco ?? Same old story, FG/Lab exactly the same as the other shower Fianna Fail

More like Kenny’s advisers are sharper operators than people give Kenny credit for.

So because a minister met an elected member of the Dail not meeting the residents of Priory Hall is a gross double standard?
I’m not seeing it myself unless some of the former residents of Sinn Fein towers are TDs too?

Explain how Phil Hogan is corrupt?? These sort of comments get posted on here and quite frankly if it was print media there would be a legal case…. Phil Hogan may be a stubborn man but corrupt??? I actually think there are way more ‘liars’ posting on this site than the dail could even dream about…

I am by no means a fan of Phil Hogan and think he should probably be reshuffled out of the cabinet but this story is a load of bull.

The comparison between meeting someone AFTER a tribunal and meeting people while a court case is ongoing is apples and oranges.

Sinn Féin are ones to talk about double standards!!!

Unfortunately Lowry is still a TD and he’s going to end up having meetings with Ministers as a part of his job. What is Phil Hogan and all other TDs supposed to do, just ignore him? Ban anyone from even talking to Lowry in Leinster House? I think it’d be great to give him the silent treatment, but it’s totally unworkable!

Can’t believe TheJournal just prints the ramblings of some Sinn Féin Councillor as “news”.