Car tax going down a pothole
That’s more than €10 a week and I would like to know what I am getting in return.
I paid an exorbitant amount of tax when I bought the car, which cost me substantially more than it should have.
It seems that if you want to buy a car in this country you must be prepared to contribute to the pension fund of everyone remotely associated with putting the thing together and also make a significant donation towards reducing the national debt.
So I think I should be entitled to take my car onto the public road without having to worry about it coming to any harm. Not so.
My last car hit a pothole near Midleton in east Cork and suffered a permanent limp as a result. If you travel on the main Cork-to-Waterford road, you should bring Pat Falvey with you to guide you through Castlemartyr. The main street there was imported from Basra. The main road into Cork city via the Tivoli dual carriageway is peppered with drain covers that for some reason refuse to stay at the same level as the road. As you approach Water Street a pothole there has been replaced with a mound of tar that looks like a giant tumour. Presumably the idea was that my car would eventually reduce it to road level.
The road to Cobh is littered with bumps, depressions, potholes and generally uneven surfaces.
In fact it’s difficult to find a stretch of road anywhere that’s free of blemishes, all of which contribute to reducing the shelf life of my car.
So where is all the revenue generated through road tax going, and is there any accountability? We seem to be paying huge sums for some grit and liquid tar that vaporises and then spatters on my car on the rare occasions we get some sunshine.
I’d call for a tribunal only that we would all be using mini-hovercraft before it would conclude and then the Government would probably raise the cost of motor tax to pay for it.
Trevor Laffan
24 Copperfields
Rushbrooke
Cobh
Co Cork
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