Thanks for putting a dampner on it for me :( ,34 years of tax :eek: ,its inhumane :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
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Thanks for putting a dampner on it for me :( ,34 years of tax :eek: ,its inhumane :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
Are you a mature student or what?Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
I've got more than that left and I've been paying tax constantly for the last 8.5 years.
Just copped the title of this thread. Are you suggesting it takes more than one woman to do a man's job Roo69? ;)
It said double the number of years i am now 17 so do the math.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
but that's what you're supposed to be doingQuote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Correction, I said "more than twice."Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
If you start work when you're 20 then it's 45 years to retirement age.
Anyway im definitley not a mature student. :D
Burke was done for tax, as the evidence in tribunals is inadmissable in other courts - the theory being to get people to cooperate. Incidentally, Burke hasn't cooperated with that either, hence the €10 million legal bill.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
Magoo - by getting caught up in the tax aspect of the conviction, your missing the wider point. They couldn't do him on the other points, so they got him on the tax. That's why this conviction should celebrated - strike one for the man in the street against decades of corrupt politicians getting away with it. Hopefully he'll be the first of many to get sent down by whatever charges are necessary for some form of justice.
Nope im a computer student, there is some maths total bolix.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magoo
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see Burke get sent down. I think it would be an even greater victory for the man on the street if it was for corruption, mind. What's being exposed in the tribunals, especially Flood, is horrific. Developers had some of the most politically powerful people in this country wholly in their pockets.
We didn't need a tribunal to tell us that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magoo
All you have to do is look at some of the builldings on places like St. Stephen's Green in Dublin or even Liberty Hall to know how corrupt the planning process was.
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Originally Posted by Peadar
And the Bunglaow ...ahem... Bliss that is parts of semi-rural Ireland.
From what i've heard planning system is as corrupt as ever. Lots of who-you-know stuff going on everywhere.
Burke will be the best candidate for bribery conviction but I suppose he'll be as sick as CJ if & when that ever makes court. Its been proven Burke kept 50k & he unable to come up with good excuse.
I know a few people that have been trying for planning for 5+ years for an average house (within the old first time buyers grant size) that would drop a few grand if that was true. Individuals don't have the bucks to make it worth the risk of the planners/ politicians....Quote:
Originally Posted by Magoo
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Originally Posted by Macy
a high profile irish flat race jockey bought a sizeable piece of land near punchestown race course that the previous owner could'nt get planning permission to build on.
within 6 months not only hads he planning for his own house but one for
his elderly parents at the entrance to the property.
makes you wonder
TBH honest I don't know if it's still true (I doubt it given circumstances at teh moment) but in the past, plenty of 'gifts' were given to Co. Co. people for various favours, be they planning or otherwise. Incidently, many favours were done purely on association by family of friendship grounds also. It's still corruption.
Not saying it doesn't. Maybe I took up Magoo wrong, but I thought he was getting at the average family - not "high profile jockey's". There's certainly high profile (and weird looking) houses getting built that make you think how the fook did they get planning when it took us 2 years for a small one on family land...Quote:
Originally Posted by the 12 th man
Not the average family, but not necessarily juts the "high profile jockey's" either. Favours have been done by people in Administrative Authority which is clear given the occurance of houses such as the ones you mentioned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macy
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Originally Posted by Macy
i was probably going off topic,but i was just doing a comparison between having the neccessaries & know how to grease the wheels as opposed to being an ordinary joe.
Okay I'll agree, just about - but don't let it develop into an anti rural development/ bungalow debate, we have D4 state sponsored w@nkers An Taisce for that....Quote:
Originally Posted by Magoo