Stamp out An Post incompetence

Ireland was the island of saints and scholars and now it is a nation ridden with criminals.

Many people have not paid the household charge. So what now? Before Minister Phil Hogan sends out the henchmen, consider that Minister Joan Burton was under the illusion that you could pay it in your local post office. ! An Post delivered junk mail urging households to comply but the mail arrived too late for many.

An Post supplied the registration forms. An Post sold you the postal order. But nobody in the Government asked An Post to collect the money.! Nobody in Government asked An Post to use their TV licence database to send forms to people’s homes. The incompetence. If the household charge is to be designated for local services, and local authorities are ‘skint’, then what money is being used to pay the local authority staff who will work overtime on Saturday, March 31? Would it be household charge revenues, by chance? What is the cost involved there?