Will the Dail career of Mick Wallace be truncated?

[bernadette]

Mick Wallace made a rod for his own back. He knew what he'd done and he chose to be a candidate on the left.

How arrogant is that?? And no doubt as soon as the fuss dies down he will be back to his noisy unrepentent self.

[Cynacist]

Mick should consider this:

Its no use running a pig farm badly for 30 years saying really I was meant to be a ballet dancer
By that time pigs will be your style

[Baron von Biffo]

They replied to questions, when asked:

When they could be tracked down to be asked. I wonder when was the last time the press had difficulty getting a quote from Boyd-Barrett, Daly, Flanagan or Higgins on the subject of wealthy developers dodging tax?

Well she could say that she personally feels he should resign. But no TD of any party did, of course.

Wouldn't it be gas if so-called Left wing TDs could be led by principle rather than following what FG/LAB/FF do?

The attempts to deal with Ivor Callelly by Dail Committee went down like a lead balloon. No one should be denied proper and due process. Not even Ivor

On a pedantic point, Callely was dealt with by a Seanad Committee.

Asking Wallace to do the honourable thing does nothing to jeopardise his right to due process.

[riposte]

If Mick Wallace were climb into a space capsule and launch himself into space it wouldn't improve the circumstances of this country by one cent or one iota.

On a list of topics from 1 to a 1000 worth discussing this comes pretty low .... somewhere about the same level as "Inkgate"

[Baron von Biffo]

Tricky Mickey shows the same PR savvy as Daly :-

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...s-3159240.html

[Baron von Biffo]

The arrogance of Wallace is, even by Leinster House standards, staggering. Attempting to minimise the salaries paid to himself and his family as the company was going under he discounts the PAYE and PRSI and just refers to the net pay.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...y-3160428.html

[bernadette]

I can't see anything happening to him. He's keeping his head down, his shirt last time I saw was a kind of dirty beige. I think he'll get away with it.

[Shaadi]

He's a tricky kind of guy to figure out. Is he just a sleazy builder with a Dunphyesque high regard for himself, who dabbles in left wing politics and has done some good community work?

He reminds me of a guy I worked with who was a nice guy but missed work regularly with a drink problem. The boss would get mad, threaten to fire him and then let him off, we all made excuses for him because we liked him. He wasn't so nice to his own family and he didn't have such bad a drink problem that he couldn't control it when it suited him.

How much crap should you let people get away with because you like them and should people be given a second chance?

It should be up to the people of Wexford whether they fire him or not at the next GE. He doesn't offend me greatly because he has no power to abuse, but I wouldn't vote for him.

[riposte]

He's a tricky kind of guy to figure out. Is he just a sleazy builder with a Dunphyesque high regard for himself, who dabbles in left wing politics and has done some good community work?

He reminds me of a guy I worked with who was a nice guy but missed work regularly with a drink problem. The boss would get mad, threaten to fire him and then let him off, we all made excuses for him because we liked him. He wasn't so nice to his own family and he didn't have such bad a drink problem that he couldn't control it when it suited him.

How much crap should you let people get away with because you like them and should people be given a second chance?

It should be up to the people of Wexford whether they fire him or not at the next GE. He doesn't offend me greatly because he has no power to abuse, but I wouldn't vote for him.

I agree with this Shaddi ..... Wallace is deluded and self-serving ...... but he didn't bankrupt the country....... The Indo are hounding an idiot while giving the real criminals an easy ride .......Sean FitzPatrick, David Drumm, Patrick Neary, Maurice O'Connell, Brian Cowen, Bertie Ahern, Charlie McCreevy, Brian Goggin, John Hurley, Dermot McCarthy, David Doyle, Paul Gallagher, Dermot Gleeson, Eugene Sheehy, Richard Burrows........ these guys should be hanging in the Phoenix Park.

[PaddyJoe]

Looks like the Committee on Members’ Interests will decide today whether it has jurisdiction to consider sanctions against Independent TD Mick Wallace

In essence, however, there was only one crucial question for Pringle’s committee to consider: did Wallace’s contact with Revenue occur in late 2010 as he stated or at a later date?

If that contact preceded his election as a TD in February 2011, the committee would have little choice but to conclude that it had no jurisdiction to inquire into the matter. However, if it occurred after that date, the committee could inquire into whether a breach had occurred and, if one had, recommend a motion of censure to the Dáil. In the event of that motion being passed, he could be suspended from the Dáil for up to 30 days.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...319793255.html

[Dr. FIVE]

Charlie Flanagan is very quite

[Slim Buddha]

I agree with this Shaddi ..... Wallace is deluded and self-serving ...... but he didn't bankrupt the country....... The Indo are hounding an idiot while giving the real criminals an easy ride .......Sean FitzPatrick, David Drumm, Patrick Neary, Maurice O'Connell, Brian Cowen, Bertie Ahern, Charlie McCreevy, Brian Goggin, John Hurley, Dermot McCarthy, David Doyle, Paul Gallagher, Dermot Gleeson, Eugene Sheehy, Richard Burrows........ these guys should be hanging in the Phoenix Park.

Throw Harney into that lot and I will design the scaffold personally with a new piece of cool software I received from a friend recently. She was there from beginning to end in the last junta and her pawprints are all over the economic meltdown. She a L'Oreal type, she deserves it.

[PaddyJoe]

The Committee on Members Interests has said this afternoon that it cannot establish jurisdiction to investigate Wallace's tax affairs.
Back to the Dail, so.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakin...rs-558707.html

[Stanley 2]

Wallace just takes his MO from Callely and Lowry, will now be looking for a legal angle so all this mess can be subjudice.

[musashi]

I agree with this Shaddi ..... Wallace is deluded and self-serving ...... but he didn't bankrupt the country....... The Indo are hounding an idiot while giving the real criminals an easy ride .......Sean FitzPatrick, David Drumm, Patrick Neary, Maurice O'Connell, Brian Cowen, Bertie Ahern, Charlie McCreevy, Brian Goggin, John Hurley, Dermot McCarthy, David Doyle, Paul Gallagher, Dermot Gleeson, Eugene Sheehy, Richard Burrows........ these guys should be hanging in the Phoenix Park.

You got some right, but you got some way wrong - Paul Gallagher is pretty cool guy - I certainly wouldn't relish seeing his earthly remains adorning our national park.