Anger as TDs brand collection of household tax ‘a shambles’

Collection of the household tax was branded a “shambles” by government TDs as concern at the scale of non-registration for the charge prompted angry scenes in the Dáil.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn hit out at opposition TDs refusing to pay the levy as backbenchers from the Coalition called for an urgent overhaul of collection methods.

Mr Quinn warned Cork Sinn Féin TD Jonathan O’Brien that he was “inciting people” to break the law by calling for householders to snub the charge.