He broke the law yet he still holds a position as an elected person????!!!

The guy with the garlic got 6 years, what did Wallace get… nothing!

One law for them, one law for the rest of us!

Mick Wallace should for once do something decent and honest and resign his position

So a small town has to cough up over 400 household charges to pay his leaders allowance ?

Who or what does he lead ? ……..

He should hand it over to the tax man who he owes it to.

No TD should get an allowance on top of the 100k plus salary per year. It is the same thing all over again, the poor get battered into a corner with a begging bowl. I for one would love to have an allowance of 42k per year but I am not a TD, I have to work for a living.

This is also a reminder of the Junior Ministers that Brian Cowan sacked a few years ago, those that did not get reappointed got redundancy payments to make up the difference of what they would lose.

he should use the money to buy a new shirt, he only seems to have one.

He should resign as he has broken the law

A disgrace..he probably needs it to treat Claire Daly to nights out,its a shame,liked him at the start,thought he could make a difference but he just proves that he’s no better than the rest of them..they take the piss the lot of them,they have no clue of what its like to live in the real world!!

I think the question might ask , should there be leaders allowances? , Of course if your elected and then allowances are there you will claim them , we seem to have a judicial system that puts one guy in jail for 5 years for vat fraud and another who doesn’t get prosecuted , the allowances thing is a another bit of a shambolic side show , I thought one of the great 5 point plans was some reform of government , I won’t hold my breath..

Of course he should, and while they’re at it he might as well get a brand new BMW, a second home(preferably a mansion), and his own private jet. Sure the taxpayer can easily afford this.

Sweet. Evaded taxes. Now gets another arm of the same tax pot to pay him additional money. Ye couldn’t make it up.

Just ridiculous….So, being an Independent surely means independent of any party ties…..ergo…..how can you then be deemed a leader of your own party, which if you’re independent, doesn’t exist……it’s just comical

I found this yesterday, have a read, full lowdown on exactly how much we are being scammed for…..
http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/how-much-do-irish-politicians-get-paid-part-1-of-2/

Mick Wallace didn’t pay vat through his company. He owes this to the taxpayer and now he is using taxpayers money to pay off his debts. He’s got the hang of being a politician alright!

No, simples

Paying him any more of our PAYE is unconscionable………………

The only allowence Mick Wallace should be claiming is his daily prisoners allowence…Jail this man!

Mick, taking the Mick again. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, with the tax payer footing the bill. Even Nigeria wouldn’t tolerate this kind of sickening behaviour!

Allowance !!!
What planet ???
FFS
He defrauded the revenue and he still holds his position is more the question.

George Orwell “Animal Farm ” comes to mind..

didn’t take him long to turn into a pig with his nose in the trough did it?

We voted for change at the last election and its just Animal Farm all over again.

Howlin is on the Pat Kenny radio show at the moment stating that public expenditure needs to be cut. Maybe Mr. Wallace could lead the way and not take this “Leaders Allowance”

Sweet. Evaded taxes. Now gets another arm of the same tax pot to pay him additional money. Ye couldn’t make it up.

The guys a bankrupt shouldn’t even be there it’s a joke!

so they are going to but the meager allowances that nurses and guards get for working ungodly hours, yet a disgraced td will still get an extra 41 grand on top everything else? it should be handed back and used to buy a decent Garda patrol car!

Can someone tell me what Mick Wallace Leads, apart from the taxpayer a merry dance.

ha ha ha ha… You are joking??? It’s gone beyond a joke how these leeches are getting away with robbing our country of the human basic rights such as education, health and everything else that they are fleecing to keep themselves in a luxurious lifestyle.. Unf..nbelievable….

this guy is,a joke !!! unbelievable that he can get away wit it !!,

Enda Kenny, micheal Martin, Eamonn Gilmore and Gerry Adams are actually leaders of parties with more than 10 TDs. They’re given a leaders allowance to allow them to travel the length and breadth of the country canvassing for their respective parties. I don’t particularly have an issue with that but I’d question the Taoiseach and the tainiste receiving it as their salaries are already very large….

Also no bog standard TD gets a salary of over 100k. They get about 93k which is still sizeable but let’s not be libellous.

Having said all this Mick Wallace is taking the piss with his antics. No independent should be able to claim a leaders allowance. They have no business working outside their own constituency and they get paid more than enough to do that. What baffles me is his saying that he’s going to use the money to pay off his tax bill, like that somehow makes it ok? How was this man ever elected and why is he still in office? You can be sure if any normal person defrauded revenue there’s only one state owned building we’d see the inside of and that’s mountjoy…

Make them all live on 188euro a week flat with no pay or perks and see there tune change from being EU/Troika poodles to actually understanding what its like living in the real world with constant threats of cuts and tax

Insert “System” for “Government”.

He is not the only one, the parties are getting a fortune per TD and Senator plus expenses for office equipment etc, also other independent TDs and Senators are getting these payments. These payments are apparently going back to Mr McCreevys time as Minister for Finance. These payments should be stopped, why dont the Troika look at the politicians payments and leave the unemployed and Social Welfare recipients alone. AT LEAST MR WALLACE GO AND BUY A SUIT AND SHIRT AND TIE AND GIVE A LITTLE RESPECT TO OUR PARLIAMENT, YOU CAN PROBABLY CLAIM IT AS AN EXPENSE.
Grrrrrrrr! ! !

He shouldn’t be allowed to have any kind of public office never mind an extra 42k expense account.

He’s a despicable tax cheat who has stolen from us all.

Only in Ireland would he not be forced to resign never mind being given access to 42k.

Shambolic.

Mick Wallace and all the other so called independents are wrong to claim this allowance just because they are entitled. Didn’t being entitled to something cost the Molloy guy in fas his job albeit with a huge pension. This sense of entitlement is what has the country where it is. The only people who don’t seem to be entitled to anything are those who work their butts off and those who in the last few years
find themselves unemployed through no fault of their own.

Since the state is now apt and able to proposes deducting eg property tax payment from the income at source payment of the paye worker – that s the talk – suggest that the allowance mick wallace claiming be treated as paye and money deducted by installmentt witheld for revenue commissioners. I certainly do not believe a word out of his mounth about him donating anything to nyone except his own pocket like the rest of them.

He could take the award though for taking the P… and getting away with it!

I think this leaders allowance should be scrapped. It comes from Berties time when he needed Michael lowrey and Jackie Healy Rea to support his government. If they intend to keep it then it should be vouched like the allowance to political parties.

I think Mick Wallace is a shyster. He’s the same gombeen style parochial politician with nothing but local interests and his own welfare at heart. He should resign along with every other TD who has kept money from the state whether by tax evasion, fiddles accounts or false expenses.

It’s simple: scrap the leaders allowance and use a vouched system for ”research” proportionate to the size of each party.

It’s hard to tell what I’m saying Yes or No to here. Is he entitled to claim the allowance? Yes. If other independent TDs can claim this, then he should also be able to. Thems the rules. If the question is, should these rules remain or should they be changed, that’s a different question entirely.

The question should rather be ” Should Mick Wallace be entitled to the Leader’s Allowance?”

He should be locked up for that haircut and pink t-shirt never mind anything else

The money should be spent on asking the people of want a white collered (or inn this case pink) robber should continue in government

Of course not. The man should be in Jail for tax evasion not taking home almost twice the minimum wage for “Research”. Seriously, when did the lunatics take over the asylum…

Why is he still getting any tax payer’s money at all?

Wallace is a disgrace but therefore is highly unlikely to “resign” from the Dail and will therefore probably accept his leaders allowance. But Irish people themselves who voted for him should be ashamed of themselves and should call for his resignation.

Wallace is a member of a very select club the Dail – and they don’t do anything to root out the wrongdoers or the criminals in their midst – they are totally impotent with no sense of honour

Mick Wallace aka Dolly The Sheep is so ridiculous….he should be turfed out of the Dail if he doesn’t resign.

Is it very cynical of me to think that Mick Wallace knew what was coming down the track taxwise and decided to run for the Dail knowing that once he got in he’d be on the pig’s back and as an added bonus would be untouchable?

It makes me puke to see how these guys are still ripping off the system. The whole bloody lot of them are
over paying themselves and getting away with it. Puke,puke,puke stuff I say and it must stop.

He should not only give up the money, he should be in jail.

Also thank him very much for using half the money we the taxpayers contribute for his work in the Dail, to paying the money he owes to the Revenue to pay for the services whuch we the taxpayers pay for in our taxes!

Yes: he needs the money to research new ways of fiddling the Irish taxpayer.

If he’s that hard up for money,he should just reform Twister Sister,with Claire Daly and go on tour.

he thinks by giving back half his salary everything would alright.he seems to forget that its taxpayers that are paying his salary so now its US taxpayers paying his tax bill the man is a discrace

not a hope a should get six months in jail on each tax charge the brass neck f***er

Voted yes as currently that is what is allowed under the house rules. If the poll had asked should independent TD’s get a leaders allowance then I would have voted no.

Not really smuggling garlic was he ? he was paying lower VAT than he should have.

(Anger typo’s) lol
I am sure he know exactly where to get the right advice ;)

You must be kidding! He should consider himself lucky he still has his seat!

* which. Fiddly phone keyboard.

Any person that breaks the Law should be prosecuted. He is Not behaving correctly and is giving bad example to honest people who pay their taxes. Shame on you. He does not deserve to be a TD!

Unfortunately, he’s entitled to it so the answer can only be yes.

I wonder does he take full advantage of the dry cleaning allowance?

he’s entitled to it.

I think he should keep it. He is entitled to it anyone else in his position would also claim this allowance. Anyone that says they would not is a liar. I think it is wrong. If I was in his position I would certainly take it

The reason I say yes is that Mick can be trusted to use the money wisely and efficiently to enable him to do his work for the people. Mick will not jump into an issue blindfolded, but researches first to be sure he’s doing the right thing. If he doesn’t use the resources available to him, he won’t be doing the job to the best of his ability. He is a man of integrity and has my full support

Why not? Every other gangster in the dail is at it! What a joke of a couuntry