Minister for health, Micheál Martin has apologised for using the Irish government jet to fly him back from Switzerland when he became stranded last Wednesday. He arrived at the airport in Geneva 40 minutes before his flight was due to leave but was unable to board the plane as the gate had closed. Seems a bit odd to me. I thought gates only closed about 10 minutes before the flight was due to take off? Maybe they do things differently in Geneva?!? I bet he didn’t even play the “Do you know who I am?” card!
Poor old stranded minister Martin said he had no choice but to call out the jet, a roundtrip which has costed the taxpayer €10,000. The question is, when is he going to be paying that air fare?
(Source: UTV)
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