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truthseeker

Deputy Green strikes again.twice in one week we read how he spends his time and our money…..getting obvious now isn’t it….

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Mr Black

Once again Mr Green’s Name is in the spotlight, first for wasting government time with his own personal agenda and now by being loose with the publics money. He has only been in government a short time but is already proving himself to be the usual self serving non entity as the others.

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Matt G

An article surely set to deliberately stir things up. £5k in a year really isn’t a huge amount when applied to travel expenses. The treasury minister (regardless of who it is) has a role which above all others probably requires him to travel the most. I would guess it equates to roughly one trip to London a fortnight. I’d hazard a guess that many company directors in Jersey have to make similar trips.

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Robert

I know that Philip Ozouf went on a promotional visit to India that I also attended and was very beneficial in forging links with the Island.

He traveled in Economy even though it was a long haul flight! Does not seem like he is taking advantage at all based on that fact.

These levels of expenses for the most senior roles seem very low for the role they have to play.

The UK has made it clear that in the International arena we have to very much represent ourselves so increased travel expenses has to be expected.

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kel

And you want to save how much within health as published this week? Add those figure, you could pay a nurse’s wage for a year, God help you if you get old and ill.. The most important things are health and education, wake up you idiots, stop spending our money on less important things.

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MArc

So…i wake up in the morning…do my work come home to my bedsit for this gent to get my vote and then spend £5700 on benefits in travelling in ONE year ??? MR Ozouf dont bother coming for a second term …you aint going to surely get it from a LOT of taxpayers… Guaranteed

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Matt

I actually think Philip Ozouf is more hands on with the States economic mess at the moment than anybody else in the past and this is whilst backbenchers winge and moan though never suggest any solutions to help. He is pulling no punches, he has been open about the future problems of the Island and nobody can complain that they now don’t know whats going on. He has even gone down the route of telling 1.(1)K’s that the ridiculous low tax days are over. We should support Philip instead of moaning about some pathetic expenses bill which was probably only used to promote Jersey’s number one industry as it is.

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BS Deluxe

Considering all the frivolous spending that our ministers are notoriously famous for this does seem a tad too low.

Perhaps the real “expenses” have been hidden under a different guise to prevent us from really knowing what they are all skimming off the tax payer???

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big bean

£5,762 spent on travel and expenses, presumably on Island business actually isn’t alot. Works out at just over 6p per person.

£3,000,000 spent digging up a coconut is! I’d like my £33.33 refunded back please!

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bond

I agree, these sums are not very high – it must depend on whether or not people leave the island.

MUCH more important is why 123 residents of 1(i)(k)status are paying 10% tax, and only an average of 100 000 each. This is nothing for them so why are they so important to Jersey? Why give them all those concessions and invite them in? So they can do a lot of building, which raises building costs and requires more immigration? So that lovely headland sites can be wrecked with mansions and fences? So that said mansions can remain empty 6 months a year. Let’s concentrate on that rather than a paltry few thousand. Sounds as if Terry Le Sueur has been paying for his trips out of his own pocket – he could hardly have gone to USA for that amount.

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