High life: Batt O'Keeffe spent €5,700 on VIP airport charges when junior minister [tribune.ie]
- Published: 24 January 2010
One of the Taoiseach's closest political allies, education minister Batt O'Keeffe, regularly ran up airport charges of €1,000 and more during his time as a junior minister at the Department of the Environment, new records show.
The combined bill for airport costs and charges on just seven trips – understood to include the cost of access to VIP airport lounges and services – claimed by O'Keeffe and various members of his travelling party comes to over €5,700 .
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