We need transparency on tax spend

We need to see transparency in how our taxes are used.

We should not be surprised if the Irish Water fiasco is the cause of public censure by the United Nations Environment Programme given the amount of trees that will have been cut down just to accommodate the many millions of deserved column inches that have been consumed. In fact, if anything, Irish Water may well be the antithesis of water conservation given the deal government has now put before the people in order to stave off electoral decimation.

Equally we should expect bestseller text books to be written on how not to set up a public utility or perhaps how not to go about persuading a highly sceptical public that they should welcome paying another tax. Indeed, there’s at least one book in describing the arrogance and even incompetence of our government and our highly paid unaccountable senior civil servants in the foolhardiness of setting up a semi-state to gouge even more money from a taxpayer that is punch drunk from half a decade of being unfairly gouged by government, bankers and the EU.