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THE JUSTICE MINISTER has said that the Government needs to consider potential impacts to publishing the quarterly tax defaulter list, following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights last month.
A ruling by the European Court last month found that publishing names and addresses of tax defaulters was “unjustified”, following a case taken by a Hungarian businessman against the Hungarian Government.
This ruling potentially impacts on the ability of Revenue to publish their quarterly tax defaulters list, which has been ongoing since 1983.
Justice Minister Simon Harris said that he believed there needed to be “detailed consideration” around the ruling and that he wanted to see the naming and shaming of tax defaulters continued.
“I think it definitely needs detailed consideration,” Harris said.
“My gut on this is that the naming of defaulters in Ireland has always been a tool used by Revenue and indeed it was introduced by the Fine Gael-led government as an effective and important tool.
I’d like to see it continue.
“If you don’t pay your taxes here in the country, I think it’s important that the community that you live in and which you benefit from public services, that people are aware of that.”
Harris added that the Government will have to receive legal advice on how best to proceed.
In the case, the Hungarian businessman – who remained anonymous – argued that the publication of his name and address was an “infringement of his right to respect for private life”.
The businessman also argued that the real purpose of the defaulters list was for “shaming and public humiliation”, in particular focusing in on the media attention that surrounded the lists.
“This public shaming list was a modern form of pillory, was extremely humiliating and caused huge distress,” he argued.
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People need training on these platforms. Anyone wishing to attend a zoom school session should be left in the lobby until invited by the presenter. Provide BASIC training and this won’t happen.
@Hugh O’Keeffe: 100% this is such a trivial thing to resolve it raises serious questions about the training and advice being provided to the less tech savvy teachers.
@Hugh O’Keeffe: I’m guessing (and as per the article) that most break ins is because of someone making public the link complete with password……or as horrifying as it sounds, could it be a relative of one of the children.
My faith in humanity is being eroded bit by bit every day. What motivates these sickos?
I’m not familiar with zoom or meet but these platforms need to have ability to kick and ban unwanted attendees at a minimum.
As for all lockdowns so far, no fear of this as our school hasn’t bothered with a single online class for any of my children
@Tony Gordon: Have you considered ringing the principal about this? If not,then you should. I am teaching all my classes everyday online via zoom. Students need it.
@Tony Gordon: very,very surprised to hear this. In my area,all schools are online. Maybe contact the principal about this?
Go back to class rooms. Problem solved
@nero: You’re a genius. Why has nobody else thought of that? Hmmm
I’m not familiar with zoom or meet but these platforms need to have ability to kick and ban unwanted attendees at a minimum.
@Paul Clarke: Zoom does have that ability. Why bother comment on a subject that you don’t have a clue about? Never ceased to amaze me how people think we want to hear every little thought that comes their head.
@In fairness now…: …and the award for most obnoxious comment of the year so far goes to the faceless troll in row two!
@In fairness now…: why did you bother saying something so rude?
@In fairness now…: Thanks, you have just proved my point.
@Caddyshack: Forgive me for reading a news article and expecting some intelligent debate. Instead, most of the posts any thoughts that come into people’s head.
I personally don’t need to know every single thought a person might have. We already have Facebook for that This is supposed to be a news outlet.
I seem to have upset those people who think differently.
@In fairness now…: You chose to denegrate rather than educate. There’s no defense for that level of repugnance.
@In fairness now…: why don’t the teachers use this then, you ‘tard?
@In fairness now…: You didn’t upset me. The article doesn’t go into detail but there are only two conclusions you could reasonably draw – the software isn’t fit for purpose and doesn’t allow enough control OR teachers don’t know how to use it.
And if it’s the second one (which it now obviously is) then it’s either down to lack of training or the incompetence of some teachers, or a bit of both.
Teachers very poorly trained on IT and online platforms here! No training whatsoever carried out
Sounds like the system here is rubbish or the teachers don’t know how to use it.
@Jim Lingk: The teachers don’t know how to use it. Zoom has a waiting room so they can vet who gets in, and meetings can be password protected so people can’t simply check random meeting IDs.
@Derek Walsh: I would have assumed as much, any of these types of services I’ve used (WebEx mostly) have that functionality. And they are reasonably intuitive to use.
Does that mean there is a possibility they’re being watched without realising, before being bombed?
@Peter: Yes.
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