They are elsewhere, just not in this honourless pocket of the democratic world.

Yep. If you’re going to pull a stroke wait ’till after you enter Dail Eireann.

Mick he is no leader. Leaders show integrity, honour and honesty…he has displayed none of these traits.

What Grant? Leaders show what? Sounds like we have never had a leader of this country then.

Hi Grant,
when was the last time one of our leaders showed such traits?

How come Hogan isn’t putting the frighteners on Mick?

5 words….I’ll pay back the money

FFS! Who cares about whether he speaks or not? He stole a fortune from the state,and more to the point, he admitted this on public radio! Why he hasn’t been arrested and charged goes beyond comprehension! The man is a self confessed criminal, plain and simple!

5 words…. I’ll pay back the money

another few are needed “take me to jail”

What should be said to Wallace: “Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect ?200″.

He has salary has he not…
Take it at source….. Leave him with 180 a week…. And with all the time of they get he will still be better off than 40 of working couples with kids

@Tertullian

Ditto! Unfortunately, there’s a few in the Dail that are not too squeaky clean themselves, so none of them will suggest that he resigns. Their suggestion may be, “well, he said he was sorry, let’s keep him as a well paid TD with his expenses and he can pay off his death in the meantime with his salary”! OR “well, he said he was sorry. Right, let’s get on with the day’s business”.

Yesterday’s news. Sadly, this is what happens in Ireland. NOBODY is made accountable for their lies, thieving, self centred, narcisstic views.

He can’t afford to resign, we should all chip in, poor ald mick.

Spot on

Mick, you are not cool, not funny, not sound. Your image of a “working man takes on the world” is over, you knew all this was going to happen that’s why you went into politics, this is your bankruptcy card without having to move to the UK. You manipulated people into thinking you are some sort of hero to vote you in while all along you are exactly the same as the cronys you went on about. Cop on to yourself and resign and get a job like the rest of us to pay back your debts, novelty act is finished.

@ “M”

Sadly, what you say is very true. The ordinary ‘Joe or Mary’, on the street that works for minimum wage, pays bills off by giving EUR20/30 a month in order to keep the electricity, gas running. These are real people, trying to live and educate their children to the best of their ability.

Then, a horrible lying little f . . kwit like Wallace comes along, dressed in jeans, t shirt and pretends to enter the Dail representing that ‘Joe and Mary’ when really, he’s representing himself, ‘a self made man, out for what he can make for himself out of the blood, work and sweat of ordinary people. Wallace is a despicable, horrible lying little man, no different to aherne & co. bankers, and others in the Dail, and they know who they are!

I totally agree. Where else would be entitled to a full pension after 2 years service?? It’s easy guess who wrote THOSE terms and conditions!!

Is it 2yrs yeah? Thought it was longer actually.

Apparently Revenue is not at liberty to divulge any settlement details without the consent of the parties involved :-/

Brilliant!

Absolutely. He’s being given a chance to defend the indefensible

I think Mick should resign but I also believe everyone should have the right of reply.
Public perception should not become a kangaroo court.

Just watch. He’s come up with something that he’ll say under Dail privilege and it will turn out he can’t be done for it later on.

Technically the company broke the law, not the man. I see no problem with that.

He defrauded revenue by knowingly under-declaring tax owed, that is a criminal offence. I’m no issue with his business failing but I do have with his illegal and immoral activities, i.e paid himself and his son twice what was normal in the year he knew his company was going under. How you can have sympathy for him is beyond me.

What planet are you living on, I lost my business and was hounded for tax that I owed, which I paid but was nothing in the bracket of Wallace. He knowingly defrauded on VAT and publicly admitted it and your saying leave him alone, I bet you didn’t come to Mr Begley ‘s defence when he was sent to prison for 6 years for doing the exact same thing and he actually paid what he owes. Just makes me even more happier that I refused to pay the household charge.

Eilish! It seems you’re missing the point in this! Regardless as to whether his business failed or not, he deliberately stole money he’d collected on the states behalf! It’s not as if he just couldn’t pay the state! He wilfully chose not to hand over money that never belonged to him in the first instance! Big difference between him and someone just not having the money to pay a mortgage!

VAT is collected on the states behalf….. He charged 18-21% on top of his invoices to his customers…. Which he never passed on to the state…. VAT is not part of gross proceeds.

This is just an artificial witch hunt against Mick Wallace whipped up by the Blueshirts, filled with arrogance after their hollow victory in the referendum. What kind of knee-jerk reaction has so many of you standing beside this cruel government on this issue?

Where I live, me and many of my buddies and local activists are enraged at the attempts to unseat Mick while we still have to see Seanie Fitzpatrick walk free around the area, playing golf, dining a la carte and living high on the hog in his €2million mansion.

Not to mention corrupt crooks like Bertie, Michael Lowry, Beverley Flynn, Enda’s friend Denis O’Brien and many more who just got away with it and are in no danger of jail, where they should be.

Get a grip, you sheep. Baaaaah!!!!

@Karl
This government wouldn’t have to increase taxes and/or slash spending if people like Pinkie Wallace didn’t steal from the state.
Remember this wasn’t his earnings that he tried to evade paying taxes on – it was VAT, ie. the State’s money which Pinkie Wallace collected on the taxpayer’s behalf but decided to hold onto it for himself instead.
Your point about Fitzy, Fingers and all the rest of them is well made, but that doesn’t make Pinkie Wallace any less guilty of stealing from the taxpayer!

Outed yourself as irrational there, Karl. What do you have to say about Wallace doubling his and his son’s salary while he knew the jig was up and the company was going down the pan? That was our money he was paying himself. You can’t catch all the fish at once. He’s as rotten as the rest of them; you’re still wooed by his faux-common man schtick. Four legs good, two legs bad etc.

@ Eilish Deegan, Aidan Breen,

I assume you are both kidding? It’s the ‘knowing’ that he was doing wrong, is so wrong. Thief, lying little sh1t.
By the way, where’s the accountant in all this? Surely, his accountant, if he had one, knows and is part of this? Has the Revenue spoken to him/her?

KarlMarcks
Witchhunt alright, but not whipped up by the blueshirts. Mick Wallace unseated a FF TD in Wexford drawing his support mainly from an area that had returned a FF TD to Dail Eireann consecutively for the last 30 years or more – a bitter pill for the Soldiers of Destiny who vowed to see him down.
Of course when the chill winds of recession started to bite at the heels of Fianna Fail linked developers NAMA was set up to shelter them from harm and hide their dealings under a cloak of secrecy. Not so for M. Wallace though whose debts were calculated and declared at 19 million – just 1 million short of the 20 million NAMA entry marker!
So while the goings on of FF linked developers were being secreted away under the cloak of NAMA the nefarious deeds of M Wallace were open for all to see and the liabilities of his companies were left to the mercy of the banks and the Revenue.
Like all parties leaving power FF left a process in place where their favoured chums would be snug and dry – M Wallace was just not one of them.

I’m confused. Somebody please clarify: did Mick Wallace steal money from the Irish taxpayer or not? Endof. We can sort out the rest of them too.

censored:

”All pigs are equal but some pigs are more equal than others”

@Censored
Yes.

Apologists like this are why this country has ended up in the state it is. So because we’ve had a banking collapse everybody gets a free pass on defrauding the state, or not paying taxes.

This was not a balancing act. This was a deliberate fraud on the state compounded by the fact that he payed himself and his son double in a year when his business was struggling. Why didn’t he use that money to pay off some of his VAT bill? Why didn’t he ring the Revenue Commissioners and indicate that he was having cashflow difficulties and couldn’t meet his obligation?

VAT gets paid at the same time as the invoice…..
It was not his to begin with.
He is a scamming opportunistic bon-vivant….

Pay up what you owe and stop ripping off the tax and vat payers even more by leaving your position Wallace!

What about right and wrong? Do you know anything about that Eilish?

Duh duh duh duh.
Ok let him pay back the 2 million to his customers…
Either way it’s not his

The guy is thief

LOL Eilish. You really don’t have a clue do you?