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Man.

This dude is priceless.

MINISTER Phil Hogan’s controversial text to a woman in his constituency is being probed by the Taoiseach, the Irish Sun can reveal. The campaigner lodged a complaint with Enda Kenny’s office after embattled Environment honcho Hogan sent a smug text brushing off household-charge fears. The Kilkenny woman told how kids are going hungry as cash-strapped families scrimp to pay the hated €100 tax. But she was stunned when a reply from Hogan’s personal mobile said: “Would u ever relax. And feed the children.”

Oh.

Enda To Probe ‘Rude’ Text By Hapless Hogan (The Sun)

Previously Hogan To Elderly Lady: “I Have No Problem Screwing You…”

Thanks Jane Hardy

Mr Hogan, who has an apartment in Villamoura on the Algarve, has an outstanding service charge of €4,320, according to a ‘debtors’ list document dated March 27. Yesterday, the minister confirmed that fees “of that order” were outstanding but said that he was in dispute with the apartment complex’s management company. “Would you pay a charge if you were unhappy with the service?” he asked.

 

Phil Hogan Refuses To Pay €4k Service Charges On His Portugal Holiday Penthouse (Jody Corcoran, Sunday Independent)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

In a speech at the Ard Fheis Minister [Phil] Hogan said the controversial charge was “a legacy left behind by the last Government that this Government had to deliver as part of our agreement with the Troika”.

“If there was a credible alternative we would have pursued it,” he added.

“The charge is a forerunner to an equitable valuation based property tax that will be introduced shortly, again as part of our international commitments under the EU/IMF Programme of Financial Support,” Minister Hogan said.

“I have sought to protect the most vulnerable in society and have exempted large numbers of groups that are in greatest need.”

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

Frank McDonald (above), Irish Times Environment Correspondent, and Fine Gael junior Minister Alan Kelly on last night’s Frontline on RTE 1.

Pat Kenny: “Frank, you have written about [Environment Minister] Phil Hogan and what he did with five separate inquiries that were actually under way, into planning, which were then suspended.”

Frank McDonald: “Well, I mean, I think that that was a very serious matter. John Gormley, the former minister for the environment, had received detailed complaints and I know in the case of Carlow County Council they were very detailed indeed, of planning irregularities. And I’m not talking, we’re not talking about corruption here, we’re just talking about bizarre decision making and you know really shocking messing about.”

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Local authority staff have been warned that action may be taken against them if they refuse to call door to door to remind people that they owe the Household Charge.The idea for issuing the personal reminders was first raised by Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan at the weekend.


Dispute Over Household Charge Reminder Plan (RTE)

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)