Government starting to roll out massive propaganda campaign to get people to register for and pay the unjust household tax

 

Hard-pressed householders to protest against charges at Galway City Hall

 

By Declan Varley
Galway Advertiser
January 05, 2012
 
Angry householders are to descend on City Hall next Monday evening to protest against the imposition of a whole new raft of charges being implemented by central government.

The protest is being timed to coincide with the monthly meeting of Galway City Council which will be, among other things, endorsing its annual budget for 2012 which was agreed before Christmas.

The protest is the first in a series of marches to be held around the country to highlight the growing anger at the imposition of the charges. Pressure to pay the charges was ratcheted up yesterday with the start of a campaign by Government to ensure people register before March 31 and avoid penalties.

It was revealed last night that almost 2,500 people have already signed up for the charges amd made their payments. However, the use of the website www.householdcharge.ie was thrown into doubt last night when socialist TD Paul Murphy stated that he had reported the website to the Data Commisioner for being in breach of privacy regulations.

Socialist Party / United Left Alliance MEP for Dublin and anti-household tax campaigner Paul Murphy has lodged a complaint with the Data Commissioner about the Household Tax site, www.householdcharge.ie

“The Government is starting to roll out a massive propaganda campaign to get people to register for and pay the unjust household tax. However, the site they are encouraging people to register on is in breach of the 2011 regulations on “Privacy and Electronic Communications” which implements EU directives on privacy.

“The website’s privacy statement declares that the site uses ‘session cookies’ which are erased after use, whereas in fact it uses so-called ‘persistent cookies’ that remain on people’s computers after they visit the website. This is a breach of the 2011 regulations and I have made a complaint to the Data Commissioner about it,” he said

The Galway protest will commmence at 3.30pm on Monday and will be led by well-known campaigner Dette McLoughlin who said this week that the city councillors seem to be unaware of the growing anger about the charges.

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