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THERE WAS A 14% increase in consumer complaints over poor food hygiene standards last year, the sector’s watchdog has said.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said contamination with foreign objects was among the most common allegations received by its advice line in 2015.
The reports included claims of food contaminated with dead insects and metal, as well as other foreign objects, such as an animal tooth in jam, a beetle in a burger bun, a worm in a chicken nugget, a metal screw in a cake, a snail in pick ‘n’ mix sweets and a sharp piece of glass in frozen peas.
Other criticisms related to undercooked food being served in food premises, out-of-date items being sold in retail outlets, mouldy bread being used to make sandwiches and strange tastes.
Vigilant
The number of complaints about incorrect information on food labelling was also up, by 10%.
Other allegations included in the 2,739 reports received online and over the phone related to:
The FSAI said all complaints were investigated by enforcement officers.
“In recent years, consumers have become much more conscious about the food they consume and are increasingly vigilant about food safety issues,” Edel Smyth of the FSAI said.
There is now a low level of tolerance around poor hygiene standards and food that is unfit to eat in particular.
“We continue to encourage anyone who has had a bad food safety experience to report the matter to the FSAI so that the issue can be dealt with,” she added.
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Haven’t had proper council services for nearly 9 years and some of that time was during Celtic tiger years. I’m not going to pay a charge for the same shit services or worse services as they are now! Normal Irish ripoff, pay a shitload of taxes and get nothing for them.
Tax upon Tax upon Tax – Cuts upon Cuts upon Cuts
Something has to give and I think the LPT and proposed water charges are going to be the straw that breaks the camels back.
If the Irish people do not make a stand at some stage, it will NEVER end.
For you who tried to stand up and make a stand against this scam made by the government, you were let down by the sheep and hypocrites in this country.. And for you sheep that paid up, give yourself a clap you gigantic gang of morons!
I’ve already paid a sizeable amount of property tax (Stamp Duty) when I purchased my home, along with paying €1500 p.a. management fee for the upkeep of my local area, so no I haven’t paid the additional bond holder bail out tax, nor do I intend to.
There is no way 3 in 4 people have paid the household charge , its just Propaganda , I actually dont know anbody who has paid it or who intends to pay the Property Tax .
+ 1 billion pure propaganda ask anyone you know and they have not paid it
Exactly god. I know about 3 people who have paid it. And I’ve asked hundreds
Freebies !! Your so right it’s propaganda bullying
Had a bet with a guy in work … He said more than 50% will pay because people are dopes, I said no way, less than 50%.
I was sick because of the following:
1) I lost the pesky bet
2) It broke my heart to see how the Irish fighting spirit had been snuffed out.
What happened to being bullied & giving the bigger bully a swift kick in the stones?
you still WILL win the bet. This article is a LIE
RTE have just reported on News at One that 220,000 property owners have registered for the Property Tax according to the Revenue Commissioners media engagement today.
congrats to all the true political believers and patriots who have paid you really show why europe thinks ireland is the best place to test all there austerity plans cos unlike any other country we dont even bark our disapproval we just roll over and get our tummies tickled like the poodles we are!
You should probably get your poll question and your headline question in line.
Or you may confuse the hard of thinking.
Understood exactly what they were asking. But the grammar is really really bad on both the question and the Headline.
Are you ONE OF THE one in four people who has yet to pay your household charge? might be more like it
No need to pay it joined legal challenge at attackthetax.com
Your just a dope if u handed your money to that shower of dopes in attack the tax. Suppose its not hard to find a way to scam fools
Same here!!:)
Paid it, and the tax already. It sticks in my craw something wicked but when you’re self employed you can’t take the chance not to.
My sentiments exactly Leonard
There is a legal challenge that can protect you!!
Solbank they don’t understand, there sheep with tiny brains.
I have not and I will not pay the charge. ..I don’t believe that 3/4 people have paid it….I am charged a maintenance fee for my estate so reckon that’s enough to be paying.
Same here Sharon !! We had to finish off our estate !! And pay a yearly fee so the bond holders can take a hit for a change .. What’s the point in struggling to pay a mortgage when this government want us to pay rent for life and there after . It’s beyond morally wrongness ..
Enda is the new thatcher whether he realises it or not
Flip flop. No he wouldn’t realise who he is. When he looks in a mirror he sees… Nothing. He is a blind spineless pitiful excuse of a man.
Let’s hope so. !
Thatcher would have had a dozen Endas for breakfast.
yes, I have paid it and I am not proud of it.
I’m thinking of not paying the LPT this time, is anyone thinking of what I’m thinking?
They can take it from my wages.
No way in Hell will i sign a “contract” to give away money from my pocket to the loansharks of ECB/IMF.
Lennie Lennie Lennie
By the time the Revenue catch up with you there will be penalties and interest added and maybe just because you flagged yourself an added audit. Why would you be so foolish when you know you’re going to pay. Is this maybe just your usual bravado?
Or you could just lye down and be apathetic like 70%of the population and your good self quinten.
With you on this one Leonard!
I pay tax, I pay estate mgt (no service)
Behaving like sheep is not the answer
But self employed have no options here, agreed they got u guys by the balls alright!
I will pay when they show were the money goes, and that it goes to local services
Why site tax with certain exemptions (farming) was not brought in I will never know?
#wakeup
Ah Collins surfaced have you?
Audit me all they like, they can’t take what i don’t have :-D:-D:-D:-D
Well Vincent did ye have a read about them countries i mentioned to you earlier?
Didn’t think so, still have your head in the sand as usual.
I pay management fees to keep all my local services/amenities maintained, why should I have to pay again?
Outside of my apartment complex there are no green spaces, street lights, bins or council owned roads for a 5 minute walk in any direction.
I’m not paying.
Jim I have never been vulgar enough to discuss my own tax arrangements in public as common people sometimes draw erroneous conclusions as to ones value or compliance with the law. So your comments on my personal situation are somewhat wide of the mark due to basic ignorance.
Leonard
I would have thought that with a contribution to make on every subject on these pages that you..Leonard…would be aware that Revenue can take much more than your assets!
Good man Joe. Its not for local services as we are being led to believe.
The money made from this tax on YOUR family home and the majority of taxes in the future will be goin towards these “bailouts” that we got, and are going to to get at least another 3. They are far from finished in ripping their pound of flesh from this country. We need a proper government who can see what is happening to this country and the rest of Europe. And unfortunately the stubborn owlfellas we currently have cannot see the game being played on us.
Rich people don’t tend to volunteer for these things. Leonard Washington is a prime example.
What else can they take Vincent?
Put me in jail??? Go for it. I don’t mind a couple of weeks with free meals. It will cost revenue a lot more in the long run.
Pity they don’t go after Bertie with such vengeance.
Oh its coming Vincent oh its coming :-)
Sure, you’d spend a couple hours in and get sent home because the prison is over crowded.
Exactly Joe
Im far from rich, Jack. Quite the opposite my friend.
I paid stamp duty(€24,000).and they want to tax me again.they say its fir local services.thats bull and we all know it.
All it will go towards is propping up a council that is overpaid and underworked.when the bins were privatised,did the council bin men get made redundant.if its too cold they won’t leave the depot.when it floods they think poking a stick down a drain will solve the problem. I’m not paying this charge for two reasons.
(1)I’ve already paid stamp duty
(2)I’m not propping up lazy shits that are afraid of work
Ciaran, do you pay income tax?
Because if you do then you are already “propping up lazy shits that are afraid of work.”
True,I didn’t Think of that.
Its hard enough trying to provide for your family and pay a mortgage without theses pr1cks coming up with new ways to “levy” us.
They are crippling working families.
This is the problem in Ireland. Loads of people talk about protest and revolution but they still paid the household charge. If the threat of a €100 fine can dissuade 74% of the population from not paying then I don’t think the government needs to roll out the riot squads just yet. Sheep.
Never a truer word spoken John.
Pitiful it is.
Joe… So why are u paying the management fee for no services, why not tell them to feck off too?
Plus the fact that the cash raised from this latest scam won’t even whizz past any town hall in a securicor van, never mind darken its door.
We are now the official ‘Uncle Toms’ of Europe …
Hubby self employed,will not get tax clearance if he does not pay.
That didn’t stop Bertie or Lowry from being TDs but knowing our corrupt lot it’ll stop an ordinary decent plumber working. The ruling classes of this
Country sicken me.
Not much point in paying other tax returns then. Or PRSI.
And I mean there isn’t, so rock on. There’s two sides to that sword. Let them jump through hoops, not you.
I paid it reluctantly, ah no I didn’t!
Thinking of building a tree house or an underground bunker to live in. Are they liable for the house hold bank bail out charge. ?
Didn’t bother my b*ll*x paying it and anyone I know did the same except for 2 people who did pay it, That 75% report saying people paid it is a load of crap inda must be getting tbe comms clinic to come out with crap like that.
Now as for the LPT it looks like I will have no choice in paying it eventually, But there is no way that I will surrender my details to them, There going have to go through my employer to deduct the money at source.
Also the majority of us pay tax/prsi/usc etc what are they for maybe the fg lackies can explain and motor tax that goes in to a central fund for local government.
No haven’t paid it
Paid the household tax = 1,198,091 (74%)
Unpaid 420,950 (26%)
Irish jail cells = 2,400
Outsource the balance to Cambodia?
Irish Gov must be completely Daft!
Revenue will deduct at source … No need for cells… Just hefty fines & lawyers getting a new gravy train
I did it under duress
Not paid either but it scares me that not paying it will achieve anything because so many people gave in so easily. What happens to the minority that doesn’t pay and everyone else has fallen in line like good sheeple?
Let them come take it from my wages then I won’t pay my motor tax. Will people grow a pair stand up say NO
Hello Slave Nation.
Pay by Cheque in 12 monthly installments.
1.8 Million homes x 12 cheques = 21.6 million cheques.
It wont break the law but it will break …..
Forget the Form, write a letter and ensure you demand it back when the law is repealed.
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http://www.LocalPropertyTaxPetition.net
…and then they get even MORE money – stamp duty on every single cheque!
Paid the bloody thing today , jayus it hurts
Moron
I got diagnosed with Austerity fatigue yesterday, does this make me exempt??
Paid it and like the majority I’m not happy to have done so. I am however self employed and could not have got a tax clearance cert without it. I still feel that abolishing it in the first place is where most of this problem lies. If they had kept it in place and kept it low over the years then no one would have to be paying what is an expensive rate at a very lean time. Saying that though it probably would have just been more money that got squandered during the boom!
Who the hell are the household charge board …..another quango jesus we are getting worse
Just hold out a couple of years, vote SF and the property & water taxes will be abolished. Hopefully this may also mean that our heads will be well and truly extracted from the backsides of our Troika masters because it doesn’t half stink. Naturally SF will be as useless as the last few governments but what has anyone got to lose.
If we are paying the LPT – which in turn pays for local services.
Then why will we have to pay a water charge? Isn’t that a local service ?
“Your charge is going directly to fund local services such as street lighting and cleaning … that benefit all in our communities.” … pop around to the North Inner City sometime luv
If you dont pay it, theyre only going to TAKE IT ANYWAY – direct from your Tax Credits next year… So how are you going to stop THAT?!
If you think you will get away without paying, you are living in a fantasy world.
YES they are robbing bastards. And YES we should not have to pay it. And YES, your correct – it will not be spent on ‘local services’.
But all that doesn’t take from the fact that they are GOING TO take it – whether you like it or not.
Let them. I won’t conspire in my own robbery.
Absolute lies 74% have paid
Agree totally. This is spin.
DEVIOUS BLATANT LIES
“Almost 220,000 property owners have filed returns telling the Revenue Commissioners how much they owe.” – RTE News
How many people paid the €100 household charge last year? Are people who didnt pay it going to be chased to pay that on top of this years tax? Or are the people who paid it, going to get €100 off this years tax?
It’s public knowledge what will happen – see http://www.revenue.ie and http://www.citizensinformation.ie
Read the article.
€100 off this years bill!
You live in Ireland, right?
Thanks for the laugh, cheered me up no end
#wakeup
@punhpchuinface needs to learn sarcasm
@James lyons i don’t speak your language but i will give it a try… Bhaaa baaa bah, did i say that right!
@James. Get with the programme….
Just a point of clarity, 70% of properties have been registered however the amount of individual home owners that paid is approximately 50%.
Figures as per parliamentary question by Clare daily TD.
I think it is pathetic that they state it is for essential services in communities but I pay road tax like all motorists and yes we have motorways, but our streets are littered with litter & potholes & major roads are in a state of disintegration. They want to promote tourism, they need to ensure that the streets are worth passing through. It is about time that the taxes we pay are directed to the relevant areas.
74% have paid? Wow.
It’s BS made up propaganda
What?
They would lie to us!
Oh yeah, they did mention the lying.
Carry on.
The day will come when you idiots will receive your pay package and realise that you failed you family because you won’t be able to put food on the table..
Well it doesnt apply to me. Happy Days
Happy ? For some reason you’re exempt from the charge , and you’re happy. I’m exempt from it too but I’m not happy, I would gladly pay the €100 if it meant my estate was finished and the useless greedy lazy developer was made to get off his arse, stop collecting a wage from Nama and do the work he was contracted and paid to do.
We paid it they will catch you anyway for example they won’t process grants for collages and so on unless its paid
Not true, I got the Grant last September
Nonsense, more spin.
The fact that they will give the cash to apparently find local services is an insult to people’s intelligence. Also local services are so inefficient and of such poor quality it’s hardly an incentive to hand over the payment to be wasted on “local services”.
“Your charge is going directly to fund local services such as street lighting and cleaning, playgrounds, parks and playing pitches, public libraries, swimming pools and many other vital local services that benefit all in our communities.”
I live in a rural area, no lighting, roads not swept or gritted, potholes all over the place, nearest public library that was open 4.5 days per week now only open 2 days. I am just curious as to what vital services I am receiving?
Yes, but if they sent me a bill i might at least consider it.
Quentin Collins is a d**e every thing the government puts forward you defend you are at it all the time i have been reading your commment s for months now and logged in to this site to tell you your a m***n, when your talking to people who cannot afford to pay and your mocking them saying the likes of they will send you to prison and all this balony what an absolute m***n spineless f****r , like come on how much are they paying you to be on scare mongering all day everyday on this site under your different user names ? because all know its not possible to be that sad & stupid
Become a shareholder with Attack the Tax and you will not have to pay………www.attackthetax.com
Pay the lpt for up keep of roads I’m not paying for 5 or 6 council workers so stand around a small hole in the road scratching the arses while leaning on a shovel watching 1 filling it in
I am still getting harrassed by revenue for this charge and i didnt even own a property on 1 Jan 2012!!!!
Would love to hear from someone who is not self employed,doesn’t agree with it,but pay’d it and hopes other people’s campaign and sacrifice will work
I’m a renter at the moment but I just know that in a few months time revenue is going to take a big chunk out of my wages for LPT that I’m not liable for .
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