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12/04/2012
Workers' Party Say Public Expenditure Minister Is In Denial Over Household Charge Non-Payment
Waterford Workers' Party Councillor Davy Walsh has said that Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin is in denial if he thinks that the lack of a bill is the reason so many people have not paid the Household Charge.
Cllr Walsh said that the Labour Party minister's claim that people hadn't paid in larger numbers because they hadn't received a formal bill for the Household Charge was astounding, and showed that the Minister was blind to the mass campaign of resistance that was going on all around him, including many thousands of people in the South East.
"The reason so few people are paying," said Cllr Walsh, "is not because they haven’t been sent a bill by the minister’s colleague Phil Hogan, but because they are utterly opposed to this new tax because it is unfair and is another attempt to make ordinary people pay for the bank bailouts and the corruption that has destroyed this country."
(CD)
Cllr Walsh said that the Labour Party minister's claim that people hadn't paid in larger numbers because they hadn't received a formal bill for the Household Charge was astounding, and showed that the Minister was blind to the mass campaign of resistance that was going on all around him, including many thousands of people in the South East.
"The reason so few people are paying," said Cllr Walsh, "is not because they haven’t been sent a bill by the minister’s colleague Phil Hogan, but because they are utterly opposed to this new tax because it is unfair and is another attempt to make ordinary people pay for the bank bailouts and the corruption that has destroyed this country."
(CD)
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