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Ballymun Motor Tax Office closing on Wednesdays

  • 24-07-2013 1:59pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,871 ✭✭✭


    For anyone heading to Ballymun Motor tax Office to tax their car : Ballymun Motor Tax office will close every Wednesday until further notice to deal with the backlog of postal tax & licence applications. Smithfield & Clondalkin will open as normal.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭Caliden


    Those damn organ donors!

    /s


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,525 ✭✭✭kona


    Joke.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,171 ✭✭✭enricoh


    only a council/ corpo could dream up such a solution.
    in the real world (i.e not run by unions) nct centres open late n the weekend to get through the work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,237 ✭✭✭✭djimi


    So the solution to get through a backlog is to close the center one day a week and create more of a backlog? Genius thinking there.

    Getting people in to work on Saturday would be too obvious I guess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,802 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Exhibit B: Tullamore Motor Tax office, already one of the laziest in the country with a 3:30pm closing time, have gone on a collective summer holiday :rolleyes:

    2j1wn0x.jpg


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,242 ✭✭✭✭jake is right


    Why was Smithfield office closed yesterday?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 428 ✭✭Dubwat


    It's not just Ballymun

    http://www.dublincity.ie/RoadsandTraffic/MotorTax/Pages/MotorTaxHome.aspx

    Notices

    Clondalkin Tax Office will be closed to the public each Monday commencing 8th July 2013 until further notice.
    Smithfield Tax Office will be closed to the public each Tuesday commencing 9th July 2013 until further notice.
    Ballymun Tax Office will be closed to the public each Wednesday commencing on 15th May 2013 until further notice.

    This is to accommodate the significant backlog of postal applications for processing on the new Driving Licence system introduced by the Road Safety Authority on 19th January 2013


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,182 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    It is pretty funny though closing the offices for this ****e, i mean where else would you get it.

    I watch lidl and aldi perform entire stock takes with the store still open during the day. Throwing staff at it from other stores.

    Why the hell cant staff be redeployed from other qwango organisations short term to clear it.

    Oh yeah..theyll want re-assignement fees and a fee for short term contract changes and working conditions etc etc etc.


    Brainless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,525 ✭✭✭kona


    Exhibit B: Tullamore Motor Tax office, already one of the laziest in the country with a 3:30pm closing time, have gone on a collective summer holiday :rolleyes:

    2j1wn0x.jpg

    WOW .

    Is it possible for the public service to actually work?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 41,579 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    enricoh wrote: »
    only a council/ corpo could dream up such a solution.
    in the real world (i.e not run by unions) nct centres open late n the weekend to get through the work.

    The lads get paid to work the night shifts. And paid quite well IIRC. I'm sure the lads would welcome a bit of overtime in the office but public service cuts mean there's no money to fund it.

    You can't have your cake and eat it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,182 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    kceire wrote: »
    The lads get paid to work the night shifts. And paid quite well IIRC. I'm sure the lads would welcome a bit of overtime in the office but public service cuts mean there's no money to fund it.

    You can't have your cake and eat it.

    You can, in private enterprise we call it short term redeployment. Theres no negotiation required.


    "you work for us" "we need you in the ballymun office for 5 days next week"

    Close case.


    Trick acting is all it is. Effective work to rule.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 41,579 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    listermint wrote: »
    It is pretty funny though closing the offices for this ****e, i mean where else would you get it.

    I watch lidl and aldi perform entire stock takes with the store still open during the day. Throwing staff at it from other stores.

    Why the hell cant staff be redeployed from other qwango organisations short term to clear it.

    Oh yeah..theyll want re-assignement fees and a fee for short term contract changes and working conditions etc etc etc.


    Brainless.

    It would require too much training in to make it worthwhile. You also have the IT complications of allowing extra staff log into a private and secure system and the setting up of same. Then you risk the high chances if the new staff making mistakes.

    My local aldi/lidl don't draft in extra staff in Finglas. They open one till and the other staff member does the stick take and returns to the till when required. They still shut the doors at closing time no matter how busy they are, just like the tax office in this case.

    Don't see why people get in a fuss about this sort of thing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    listermint wrote: »
    You can, in private enterprise we call it short term redeployment. Theres no negotiation required.


    "you work for us" "we need you in the ballymun office for 5 days next week"

    Close case.


    Trick acting is all it is. Effective work to rule.

    For god's sake leave your anti public service agenda in the Irish Economy forum. Thats like a guy who owns two factories telling 10 people from his computer assembly plant to go to his car manufacturing plant. Theyd have to be completely retrained which would negate the whole process.

    And as has been said, I'm sure the staff in those offices would manage the backlog if they got overtime, but cuts mean overtime is almost non-existant. The only reason the backlog is there is that so many people applied for minor changes etc just to get the new licence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    The stupidity here is that licence renewals come with a fee, probably enough to pay for the overtime. But the "one size fits all" approach by the government means that the logical step of using this revenue to provide the service is not employed. You voted for them.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    That's been the case for a while now. I went in on a Wednesday to tax my yoke over two months ago and it was closed for this reason. The bloke beside me took it all out on the poor porter/security dude!

    This has probably been going on longer than a couple of months too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,402 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Put the tax on fuel and fire them all!

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