Sir, – While waiting to board a flight at Dublin Airport on Monday morning, I came across a rather strange ATM-style machine, designed to allow you to pay your local property tax while waiting for your flight!
How much is the taxpayer paying for these machines? And why are they at Dublin Airport? Are they at every boarding area? Will I see them at railway stations and, when operating, at Busáras? Why is it that, while most European countries have a property tax (more expensive in many cases than ours), they implement it without fuss, while Ireland has to make a song and dance about it? In my opinion, this requires a full and thorough investigation of the highest order. Who commissioned these machines? Who built them and installed them? How much do they cost? Who is paying for them? Have they ever been used? Are they ever likely to be used?
Like good citizens we’ve already paid our LPT – but if this is where the money is going then it’ll be the last time that we pay it! – Yours, etc,
AG ROGERS,
Newtown Abbey,
Trim, Co Meath.