Seán Fleming, currently Fianna Fáil TD for Laois, if the gods of the ballot box smile on him he might become the Fianna Fáil TD for the reconstituted constituency of Laois Offaly. He's been a TD since 1997 and for 15 years before that he was Financial Director of Fianna Fáil at national level.

Gavin Reilly's twitter thread helped me in researching this interview:

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1216802428856782848?s=19

This is the three-page form (plus three pages of explanatory notes) that you need to fill in, get stamped at a Garda station, and hand in to your local authority office during office hours if you want to get on the supplementary register. Anyone who is trying to work out if they are currently registered to vote might not find it possible. This is what I got:

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Nobody likes taxes.

People don’t like
paying taxes, but they also don’t like talking about, or even thinking about
taxes. It stresses people out. You can even see that in the support for
proposals for things like ‘flat taxes’ because people think that they will be
simpler, even if they pay just as much or more.

Politicians know this,
particularly when they make promises like this.

And, of course when
those promises are broken, there are serious ramifications. Any politician
going into an election promising to introduce a new tax isn't likely to
prosper. But that’s just what the economist David McWilliams is recommending. And
he’s right; in fact, he doesn’t go far enough.

McWilliams article on the
topic is titled The
party that taxes land hoarding will get my vote. I would argue that we
need an wide-ranging property tax that covers all – well, all property. That would
include houses, building land, agricultural land, commercial and industrial
property, the lot.

Before you start
saying that you don’t want to pay any more tax,