Household charge deadline

[Dublad77]

No not now....Not ever...I can think of many better things to spend a €100 on

[Banjaxed]

Why the Household Charge? Because they're plundering the existing Local Authority budgets to pay for the debts of Anglo and Co., and ordinary people are expected to make up the shortfall. It comes back to the whole issue of, and I hate to quote some of the people who say this, "it's not our debt".

[Ray]

I have paid it, simple if i did not it costs me more, not much more but i would then pay it as it is not going away, the fact is, anyone else i know who have paid it has said the same as me, one way or another i will get it back if you know what i mean, its that simple the fucking ass holes are strating to drive the black market even deeper, it was big in the 70s - 80s and its now back, to more we have to pay, the more ways we find to take it back by not paying taxes, thats what happens,

[Banjaxed]

Phil Hogan refuses to pay €4k service charges on his Portugal holiday penthouse

ENVIRONMENT Minister Phil Hogan, who is in the eye of a storm over the household charge, is refusing to pay service charges on his penthouse apartment in Portugal, the Sunday Independent can reveal.

Mr Hogan, who has an apartment in Villamoura on the Algarve, has an outstanding service charge of €4,320, according to a 'debtors' list document dated March 27.

Yesterday, the minister confirmed that fees "of that order" were outstanding but said that he was in dispute with the apartment complex's management company.

"Would you pay a charge if you were unhappy with the service?" he asked.

Glad he knows where everyone else is coming from so!

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...e-3067684.html

[Mousey]

Can we start the Irish Revolution of 2012 yet?

[Incognito]

The household charge can lick my hairy ballbag!

For €100 for 1 year that's great value.

[Banjaxed]

Gardai had to rescue "Big Phil" lookalike Cllr from protesters

Mr Boyd-Barrett said the demonstration was "peaceful, but determined and angry.

"It stretched down on O'Connell Street, and one of our organisers was counting and he said there was 15,000. I wouldn't have expected that many people to turn out."

The crowd gathered at the side of the convention centre, and was addressed by a number of speakers.

Socialist Party councillor Ruth Coppinger criticised Justice Minister Alan Shatter, who earlier said the protesters should "get a life".

"When you're a multimillionaire lawyer, minister, landlord, investor and property owner like Mr Shatter, then €100 certainly is a molehill," Ms Coppinger said.

"Mr Shatter's legal firm famously charged clients €635 an hour, so naturally he and his likes in Fine Gael have no concept of real life."

One protester met his match with a Fine Gael delegate waving €100 at marchers, telling them to pay up. The man and a group of other delegates were having their lunch in the Jury's Hotel, just down the quays from the centre.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...s-3067993.html

Maybe there's a moral to all those on the price war threads, if you think escort's are over expensive, try Shatter.

[very shy guy]

The whole "let's pay lobby" includ band wagon ministers come across as condescending using phrases like "The irish people are mature enough to understand" mature? seriously how condescending can you get.

100e is quite alot it's a weeks shopping, it's more than 50% of a weekly social welfare payment, it's 20-25% of a yearly basic healthcare plan, it's 2 concert tickets almost, it's blankets for the winter for the elderly who have the choice between putting the heating on or feeding yourself, it's 6-7 weeks of bus travel. You may might be rich enough to not understand the value of 100e but there are some people out there that 100e is ALOT

As the English man said to the Scotch man,what's a fiver?,A hell of a lot if you don't have it replied the Scotch man.

[very shy guy]

Phil Hogan refuses to pay €4k service charges on his Portugal holiday penthouse



Glad he knows where everyone else is coming from so!

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...e-3067684.html

He was always a smug,smarmy bas*tard and a big shite.

[very shy guy]

Can we start the Irish Revolution of 2012 yet?

It should have happened a few years ago,the dail and those that use it as a doss house should have been burnt to the ground,plenty of lamp posts for those that would have not been there,let them dangle.