The ‘plain people of Ireland’ still need to be given postal addresses

There was an advertisement in the Irish Examiner, and in the other national papers, last Friday (March 20), about a review of local property tax by the Department of Finance. Submissions are wanted, “preferably by email”, and an email address was given, but no postal address.

I phoned the Department about this and a lady said that the postal address was on its website.

This sounds to me like “have horse and you’ll get grass”, as far as Luddites like me are concerned, who do not have a computer.

Even more bizarre, the Department’s address is in the Golden Pages, but not in the ordinary phone directories.

I have an O2 phone directory for 1998 and all the addresses and phone numbers of the Department are in that.

On behalf of what Myles na gCopaleen called “the plain people of Ireland”, I would ask the Department to rectify the above omission in public information.

The closing date for submissions to the CPT review is May 1, 2015, and to those who wish to use the post, I suggest they wrote to the Department of Finance, Merrion Street, Dublin 2.

Hugh Owens FCA AITI

(Retired Inspector of Taxes)

Douglas

Cork