This is the new owner of the old paint factory in Coolock. 🚨
Meet Peter McGarry,
He’s from Kildare,
but lives in Switzerland for tax reasons. 🤓🇨🇭
He likes to virtue-signal online about his electric Land Rover and his “Earth Foundation”.
But he doesn’t mention his actual business of housing asylum seekers
for maximum profit
To be fair to Peter though he doesn’t seem like the brains behind the operation.
My suspicion is he the junior partner…. 🧵
The other owner of the old paint factory is Paul Collins..
the real piece of meat in this story 🥩
Collins was a Celtic Tiger Cowboy.
NAMA bailed him out for €45million !!
he reportedly still has personal loans of €2.7m to AIB.
But he never gave up the graft.
For over a decade he has been involved in asylum centres all over Ireland - Kerry, Roscommon, Leitrim, Dublin, Cork.
He’s basically an asylum centre dealer.
Paul Collins is constantly making headlines for the wrong reasons.
the migrants staying in one of his centres in Kerry went on hunger strike because conditions were so bad.
Here is a picture of them holding signs pleading for help!
How is this man still allowed to be in business - yet he is rewarded with lucrative Govt. contracts.
Paul Collins and Peter McGarry are unlikely bedfellows.
But in 2018 that’s what they became when they set up “Garlin Investments ICAV”
Collins also became a director of the McGarry family business - “Caragh Trees” in 2018 🧐
The McGarry family business looks very normal from the outside
In 2018 they had this nice little piece in the paper letting everyone know how profitable they were
The question must be asked why would they let a fox like Collins into their hen house?
I suspect there’s more to it…
The business relationship between Collins and McGarry is extensive.
They are listed as directors and shareholders of over 20 linked companies.
“Townbe ULC” is one of the most notable.
This company was paid €43.5million from the tax payer in the last 3 years for housing asylum seekers!!
last year when the Govt. announced new laws that any building with a roof on it can be turned into an asylum centre WITHOUT planning permission -
they didn’t waste any time -
Old paint factories were now on the menu!
This type of Govt. policy needs to be seen as wreckless.
It must be said nothing here is illegal.
The problem is that the Govt. has created an Immigration Industrial Complex -
paid for by the taxpayer
But the profits aren’t subject to tax - when structured correctly.
All this chaos in Coolock just so cowboys like Collins & McGarry can enrich themselves further.
No thanks.
I’m calling for serious policy reform.
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