Senator Prone strikes again!

Our man in Havana

Accident prone senator Fidelma Healy-Eames strikes again. First for not buying a train ticket, now for not taxing her car.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0802/fidelma-healy-eames-tax.html

foggy_lad

We don't know what is going on in this person's personal life and such an oversight as forgetting to tax a car is an easy thing to forget about when you are busy or have other stresses and worries.

Bazzer2

Yes, worrying about which piece of legislation to rubber-stamp next can take its toll.

Mr Simpson

But the tax must be out for more than two months before the Gardai can seize it, thats quite an oversight.

Peanut2011

foggy_lad wrote: »

We don't know what is going on in this person's personal life and such an oversight as forgetting to tax a car is an easy thing to forget about when you are busy or have other stresses and worries.

Ah yes, poor love she is too busy!

Seriously the legislation should be twice as hard on her than it is on ordinary citizen. After all she is a public representative and should lead by example, the fact this is not first time she has a problem paying her own way should be questioned.

How did she forget to buy a train ticket? Surely when she was boarding as everyone else she knew she did not have the ticket.

It just goes to show you that they think they all live in their own world.

Hilly Bill

foggy_lad wrote: »

We don't know what is going on in this person's personal life and such an oversight as forgetting to tax a car is an easy thing to forget about when you are busy or have other stresses and worries.

You wouldnt say that if she worked for Irish Rail .

Losty Dublin

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Accident prone senator Fidelma Healy-Eames strikes again. First for not buying a train ticket, now for not taxing her car.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0802/fidelma-healy-eames-tax.html

How many times did she use the train in Galway boat week without a ticket?:)

ballooba

foggy_lad wrote: »

We don't know what is going on in this person's personal life and such an oversight as forgetting to tax a car is an easy thing to forget about when you are busy or have other stresses and worries.

It must be tough running two homes* on a Senators salary.

*I don't know how many homes she has, but I'm remembering P Flynn.

donaghs

Losty Dublin wrote: »

How many times did she use the train in Galway boat week without a ticket?:)

She's a regular on that train according to people I know who who take it. And they weren't surprised that she doesn't feel the need to buy a ticket (in general, not just the time she was caught).

Hopefully she's not claiming expenses for these trips also!

Hilly Bill

She had to be made to pay the plummer as well. If she was in FF, then Edna Kenny would have a field day and move to get her sacked.

Losty Dublin

ballooba wrote: »

It must be tough running two homes* on a Senators salary.

*I don't know how many homes she has, but I'm remembering P Flynn.

Very tough, she can't afford to tax her car, buy train tickets, pay her plumber for the jacuzzi that didn't fit, etc etc

You can just see another skeleton on it's way, can't you?

jemmyboy

if this was a politician from FF or even SF this would be plastered all over the media!! why the differnce in treatment for Fidelma Healy Eames???

AndyP

Maintaining two surnames is expensive business these days. Stressfully too!

Mr Simpson

ballooba wrote: »

It must be tough running two homes* on a Senators salary.

*I don't know how many homes she has, but I'm remembering P Flynn.

178 acres (albeit 166 of which are leased from a family member for €17,000 per annum for farming) and an apartment in France

Oireachtas Register of Members Interests

jack presley

What's the story when they seize your car like this? As well as paying the tax owed, what's the fine for getting your car back?

Our man in Havana

€60 ticket for no tax plus towing and storage charges.

Mr Simpson

Car impounded for no tax:

Road Tax, Fixed Penalty (€60 or €90 after 28 days), Towing Charge (€125 includes first days storage), Storage Charge for subsequent days (€35).

Link

Our man in Havana

mmcn90 wrote: »

Car impounded for no tax:

Road Tax, Fixed Penalty (€60 or €90 after 28 days), Towing Charge (€125 includes first days storage), Storage Charge for subsequent days (€35).

Link

Indeed, then there is a fix penalty that follows in the post.

Mr Simpson

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Indeed, then there is a fix penalty that follows in the post.

Thats the €60 (or €90 if you're late) bit

parsi

foggy_lad wrote: »

We don't know what is going on in this person's personal life and such an oversight as forgetting to tax a car is an easy thing to forget about when you are busy or have other stresses and worries.

Very charitable of you.

I hope the same charity is extended to the next public transport employee who has the temerity to check a Golden Ticket or who mis-locates a sign or who makes an error or indeed who actually breaks the law (rather than just upsetting you in some vague ill defined way).

juan.kerr

foggy_lad wrote: »

We don't know what is going on in this person's personal life and such an oversight as forgetting to tax a car is an easy thing to forget about when you are busy or have other stresses and worries.

Absolute tosh.

Sponge Bob

She was on the news today again, she also confessed to planning non compliance with her garage when she told the Galway Advertiser her car was impounded.

Our man in Havana

Sponge Bob wrote: »

She was on the news today again, she also confessed to planning non compliance with her garage when she told the Galway Advertiser her car was impounded.

This story just keeps on giving.

Mr Simpson

And yet she's still allowed to be a member of the Seanad. I really want out of this country :mad:

ProudDUB

foggy_lad wrote: »

We don't know what is going on in this person's personal life and such an oversight as forgetting to tax a car is an easy thing to forget about when you are busy or have other stresses and worries.

Rubbish. The date that your motor tax expires on is printed in big, black, bold print on the disk on your windscreen. It is impossible NOT to see it every single time you get into your car imo. It's not as if you get a once off reminder to pay your motor tax (the way that only get a once off reminder to pay your telly license or NPPR charge for example) and the "oh, silly me, I was busy/I forgot" excuse may be semi valid.

The motor tax reminder is there EVERY SINGLE TIME you get in and out of your car. Given the amount of times she has been in the news of late, it seems like this stupid idiot just doesn't like putting her hand in her pocket. For anything. Ever. And she is in the Seanad? Jesus Wept !!!

juan.kerr

ProudDUB wrote: »

it seems like this stupid idiot just doesn't like putting her hand in her pocket. For anything. Ever. And she is in the Seanad? Jesus Wept !!!

Sounds like she's well suited to the Seanad with it's unvouched expenses etc.

coylemj

ProudDUB wrote: »

The motor tax reminder is there EVERY SINGLE TIME you get in and out of your car.

NO IT'S NOT. I reverse my car into my drive every evening and when I come out in the morning I can't see the tax disc because it's the other side of the windscreen and in a holder which obscures the details from my view inside the car. Only when I get out of the car and walk anti-clockwise around it past the nearside front do I see the tax disc.

Not making any excuses for that lady but people do not see their tax disc every day of the year though you always get a reminder when it expires so there's no real excuse.

Head The Wall

foggy_lad wrote: »

We don't know what is going on in this person's personal life and such an oversight as forgetting to tax a car is an easy thing to forget about when you are busy or have other stresses and worries.

coylemj wrote: »

NO IT'S NOT. I reverse my car into my drive every evening and when I come out in the morning I can't see the tax disc because it's the other side of the windscreen and in a holder which obscures the details from my view inside the car. Only when I get out of the car and walk anti-clockwise around it past the nearside front do I see the tax disc.

Not making any excuses for that lady but people do not see their tax disc every day of the year though you always get a reminder when it expires so there's no real excuse.

To the both of ye, it doesn't matter one iota.

Ignorance does not stand up in a court of law.

ProudDUB

coylemj wrote: »

NO IT'S NOT. I reverse my car into my drive every evening and when I come out in the morning I can't see the tax disc because it's the other side of the windscreen and in a holder which obscures the details from my view inside the car. Only when I get out of the car and walk anti-clockwise around it past the nearside front do I see the tax disc.

Fair enough about where/how you park your car at your house. But I have a hard time believing that when you are out and about during your day to day life & parking your car at your job, at friends and families homes, at shops, gyms, petrol stations, cinemas, shopping centres, supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, doctors offices, train stations, airports etc etc & walking back to your car from said places, you don't ever look at your cars windscreen. That's a bit much imo.

shar01

Wonder did she try the ould "do you know who I am?"

I'd say it was a race to get the car up on the truck.

Can't understand the brass neck of our public representatives. In the UK, MPs have resigned over less.

mathepac

jemmyboy wrote: »

if this was a politician from FF or even SF this would be plastered all over the media!! why the differnce in treatment for Fidelma Healy Eames???

She have two pages all to own in The Galweh Advertiser (2/8/12 edition). "Boo fecken Hoo I'm all shook up", I'm paraphrasing or parasailing. I'm so upset for our Fiddles, I can't think straight a mhaicin.

n0brain3r

Look like she got her just desserts http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/1219/fidelma-healy-eames-court.html she was fined €1850 for driving without Motor Tax

Did we ever hear what happened in relation the the fare evasion?

corktina

surely the shame will cause her to resign.

n0brain3r

Pretty sure with her track record she lacks that emotion!

Cienciano

corktina wrote: »

surely the shame will cause her to resign.

If she resigns without a payoff, I'll eat my own balls. Wonder if any TD's don't have a tv licence in all their homes or offices?