Who is Fingal County Council trying to fool.

Well I'm amused. Last week I got a long curious email apparently from Greater Dublin Drainage that was so confusing I decided to reply to it and ask for clarification: the email address given bounced back as “Undeliverable”. I checked: the return address is info@greaterdubindrainage.ie. Where the Hell has the "L" gone to.

But it gets worse when you access GreaterDublinDrainage at the web address given and look at the Stakeholders Submissions in Appendix H. They seem to be about the Donabate and Portrane issue and the submissions made back then.

Then the Fingal Independent ran a story the says FCC don't have the money currently to carry out or complete existing projects.

Then I get a posted letter from FCC that has my address incorrect, but gets to me, that essentially is trying to say GreaterDublinDrainage has not gone away, "we will be making a decision in the Spring": just like they told us this time last year  before Christmas 2011.

Finally if you send a message to the correct GreaterDublin Drainage email address, you will not get the usual acknowledgement message, just silence.

I wonder are FCC so broke that they can't pay the consultants their fee and are trying to hobble along with the project being run by having the Reserve Team on the pitch. If so it won't work, we are all Premier Players out here in Fingal. Some of us even have International experience.

Let's go fly a kite...Rubbish Statements.

I'm sick and tired of the rubbish I hear on the TV and Radio these days.

One big "Bend the Truth" statement is that The Irish Revenue can collect the Household charge. It can't.

Taxes are collectible by Revenue on earned and unearned revenue and duty (which includes VAT) : that's all.

We would require changes to the tax laws to have the Taxman collect Household or other charges. But watch the Government try to sneak in the rules to collect the charges, hidden deep within the sub-texts of the next budget.

I also hear that a 25% Pension Levy is being proposed.  Also mooted is that pension funds will pass the charge on to existing pension holders. Wow! Another levy that will take away 25% of your occupational pension payments.

Meanwhile the TD's and Ministers and back bench squatters, - all of them want us to pay retired ministers and office holders a Great Big Whack of our money to Ex members who lost their seats. I can't remember any TD retiring unless he/she saw the writing on the wall in an up-coming election contest.

Ah look, this auld place is banjaxed even to the extent that you need a current TV Licence for a TV you have that is now blank because you can't receive Digital but did receive Analogue. Blooming Nora a Licence  is now required for having a Blank TV Screen in your house.

'Tis no wonder that the French think they can get us to increase our Corporation Tax so that we have money to give to Bond Holders who probably invest in French Pension Funds. Then the French worker will be looking forward to being able to retire at age 60 and the Irish will have to work on to 68 to qualify for a small pension.  (I would say SACRE BLUE!, if I knew how to spell it, or what it meant.)

Aren't we a right shower of Eegits to allow this Government to sell us down the river while they feather their own nests : ON OUR MONEY. Earned by us by hard work while they want to avail of  money they don't earn by making us pay more tax on fuel, housing, even Sh-one-T collectors in our gardens, cigarettes, drink, air (Carbon Tax):  even the food we can't afford to put in our children's mouths anymore.