Will this Dail be disolved before Bertie Ahern TD gets a Tax Clearance Certificate?

[yehbut_nobut]

I came across this interesting article from Joan Burton in Jan 2008, referring to the then Taoiseach's tax troubles:

We now have the unprecedented situation of the head of government being unable to secure a statement from the tax authorities certifying that he is tax compliant. What is of even greater concern is that he appears to have signed a statutory declaration saying that, to the best of his knowledge, there was no impediment to his being supplied with a tax clearance certificate, while also requesting that correspondence between himself and the Revenue be treated as "voluntary disclosure", and being the subject of an ongoing investigation by Revenue.

Thus far, he hasn't sorted his tax affairs out with revenue, and remains the only TD in Dail Eireann without a TCC.

As there is specualtion that the Dail will end in the coming months, will that have any material effect on Ahern's requirement to produce a TCC?

Presumably failure/non compliance having sworn otherwise still results in a case being passed to the DPP, regardless of whether the individual is still a TD or not?

[toxic avenger]

Can you become President without a TCC? There won't be any TCC before Mahon reports anyway, and that's a year away yet, possibly more with yet another O'Callaghan court challenge taking place, (and we could see resumed public hearings if O'Callaghan wins and doesn't like what he reads in a draft report - and he already knows what will be in it about him and Dunlop, it won't be good...).