Cork TD verteidigt Zahlungen in Höhe von 30.000 Euro während des Jahres, als er sechs Monate im Ausland reiste

And yes it was a continuous 6 months period. 

I won’t reproduce the entire article but:

„A junior minister has said he broke no rules by receiving €30,000 in payments from Cork County Council during a year in which he spent six months travelling the world.

Christopher O’Sullivan, who was appointed a minister of state in January, was serving as a Cork county councillor in 2008 when he went travelling to South America, Australia, and New Zealand.

His travels were undertaken the year after he was co-opted onto the council to replace his father, Christy Sr, who was elected as a Fianna Fáil TD for Cork South West after serving until 2007 as an Independent county councillor.
Mr O’Sullivan Jr previously said he told his constituents in Skibbereen he was going travelling and they did not mind, but there is no public record of this.“.

This country, man. 

“It’s fine, the law says I was allowed to to take massive amounts of taxpayer money, including full expenses, and completely disregard my job as an elected public official that I wasn’t actually elected to cause daddy gave me the job.”

Of course he’s a FF TD too.

„While his attendance stood at just 37%, he claimed more in 2008 than four other councillors who had higher attendance records.“

He thinks he has a right to taxpayer money without doing any work. He’s basically a welfare scrounger although we’re dealing with way higher sums of money here.