Lenihan struggles to explain new car parking charge

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan appeared to have forgotten where he had parked the details of one of his most unpopular new taxes yesterday.

Pressed repeatedly on how the €200 charge for driving to work would operate, the minister was at a total loss.

Mr Lenihan displayed only the vaguest grip on how the tax on use of urban workplace parking spaces would be implemented while fielding calls from enraged listeners to RTÉ’s Pat Kenny radio show.