To Mr Duffy I say "volentae non fit injuria".  If you swim with the sharks you really have no grounds to complain about being bitten.  He chose, nay grovelled, for the opportunity to swim in the tank.  Now he complains that the game he chose to play treated him badly.  Too bad, so sad but your choice.  You must accept the consequences of your decisions.  He fancied himself a player but failed to live up to his own hype.  Taxpayers have no obligation to correct his mistakes.