The agency will be able to target a range of missed payments – from A&E bills to court fines – and will have the power to raid people’s bank accounts for the money that is owed. Officials with the centralised collection agency would also be able to extract money from pensions and welfare payments.
…Carried out by consultancy firm BearingPoint, the report acknowledges how unpopular such an agency would be, as it suggested careful ‘selling’ to ministers of the benefits of such a body would be required.….The BearingPoint experts, specially hired by the Government, have even advised that bailiffs be allowed to remove personal goods in extreme cases….
Pay Up Or The State Will Raid Your Bank Account (Senan Molony, Irish Daily Mail) unavailable online



paying for what you owe, such a novel concept.
+personal responsibility
also, Irish daily mail reposts, classy.
A nice bit of click bait on a slow news day.
…guessed that was a Daily Mail headline….here’s another scoop for you Senon…Government can take your cash before it even reaches the bank – attachment of earnings judgements.
All states are criminal.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14997062-libertarian-anarchy
I hear you, comrade:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51069.The_Growing_Pains_of_Adrian_Mole
Brilliant! +13 3/4
lol
On fire today!
I like the way that the first line of the article is at odds with the headline and sub-headline which both imply that it will happen.
It’s disgraceful but typical of a ‘nanny’ state.
She wants her “daughter to have a gastric band – but she won’t”
If she wants to die young, that’s her choice.
I have never met a person on this Island who has ever purchased that paper.
I have unfortunately. It really is set up to tap into that market of Independent readers who aren’t scared enough by the tripe that’s peddled out of that rag. Sadly, that’s a lot of people in this country.
A former colleague of mine did. Turns out that he was a sexual predator though who was arrested and subsequently fired
Total weirdo who used to carry knives around with him.
Obvs not representative of all Mail readers;)
My strange neighbour who has a head injury also buys it.
RTE are also reporting it.
Sure, they’ll all still be voted in next time anyway.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0807/635675-state-debt-collection-agency/
ha!
bet you’re sorry you interfered with your water meter now!