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White Elephants all:Terminal 2 and Metro North
The Commission for Aviation Regulation prompted by Minister Noel Dempsey is going to hike the charges at Dublin airport by up to 40 % in the coming years for passengers leaving from both the old terminal and the new white elephant palace alike to pay for the escalating debt of the DAA which is estimated to reach 1 billion in the next few years.
This is on top of the existing government stealth tax levy of 10 Euros on every ticket into and out of the country..
At present the taxes and charges at Dublin airport frequently exceed the cost of a ticket.
The destruction of our tourist industry will soon be complete.
How many weekend stag party groups will fly from England to Dublin ,when they can go to Portugal or Spain for less?
I asked the European Commission to strike down this totally illegal tax two years ago as it discriminates between internal and international flights.
My petition is winding its weary wat through the Brussells bureaucracy and no doubt in another 2 years it will be outlawed-and immediately replaced by another revenue gathering imposition under another name.
By then our tourist industry will be totally destroyed.
Hotels are already suffering from new concepts such as “home exchange” organizations of which I am a member.
I have travelled the world in recent years and never had to pay a penny for accomodation or car hire.
This government has always turned to more tax to pay for its profligacy, but this time they are driving the country-not to recovery-but to utter and total ruin.
Bring the white elephant terminal at Dublin Airport under the auspices of NAMA, place a moratorium on destructive flight taxes,and give the the tourist sector a breathing space to re-invigorate itself.
Now that so many hotels and golf courses are in recievership and are being run by the banks-or controlled by the state (The K club?) surely we can attract millions of visitors from overseas with a new low priced regime.
Johnny Ronan and Richard Barret, icons of a golden (circle) era.
Fianna Fail connected waste contractors have made fortunes dumping illegal waste in a quarry owned by Cement Roadstone Holdings, in the vicinity of Dublin's water supply reservoir in County Wicklow during the past decade thereby endangering the drinking water for some three million citizens.
http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/paybyweightfiasco.htm
However further depredation in this region by crony developers of the Soldiers of Destiny has, thankfully, been put on hold due to the world wide recession, An Bord Pleanala, and the fact that
Johnny Rohan and partner Richard Barret have been NAMAtized .
Dodgy bank loans loans of approximately 1 billion Euros were given to the two Fianna Fail inspired developers various companies.
Some of the money was earmarked for the destruction of the Wicklow mountains, but thankfully, the money is all gone west.!
This is good news for conservationists but bad news for the taxpayers of Ireland.
NAMA (i.e. Irish taxpayers) are now the owners of a 150-hectare site in a designated Area of Special Amenity,close to Roundwood village in Wicklow.!
Ronan's Jersey based Real Estate Opportunities (Swinwood ltd) bought the site for 20 million Euros in 2005 with money lent them by the usual suspect (Seanie Fitz).
The cooperative and compliant County Councillors (Fianna Failers mostly) in Wicklow rubber stamped the boys plans to build a six story hotel, two golf courses ,and equestrian centre , numerous other houses,and whatever your having yourself on this high amenity land.
An Bord Pleanala threw out the whole scheme recently and the land is now only good for grazing goats.
When is a "personal guarantee"
worth F*ck all ?
Answer:
When a billionaire developer commits his personal wealth to a banker should he default on his repayments.
Ronan and Barrett have not been pursued personally for one penny by Brian Lenehan's NAMA quango.
Meanwhile the two boys R & B are
pocketing 18 million Euros per annum in "fees" fortheir
ongoing management of their ruined REO (Real Estate Opportunities)
outfit which also owns derelict sites elsewhere in Europe such as
Battersea Power Station in London (loss on original purchase price an
estimated 500 million Euros
)
In fact they hope to present Brian
Lenehan with a new business plan which will keep the whole charade on
the road as "a going concern"!
No effort has been made to sell off any of the two boys current stock of office buildings -some of which are producing good rental income.
Perhaps Mr Lenehan is waiting for the
market to re-cover?
The "new" fraudsters: not Vikings but still -"More Irish than the Irish themselves"
