The government asks for boards.ie advice regarding budget cuts

i_love_toast wrote: »

yes but the HSE choose what medicines to buy and what brands. and we all know that the HSE are not little trifty people who look after the hard earned tax payers pennies!
of course it would require alot of training. To put it very simply it would be like shopping in Tesco instead of your usual Marks and Spencers. The saving that could be made

What's wrong with shopping in M&S? The food is great and you don't have screaming kids running up and down the aisles.

Tax everyone who works 30% on the first 50k and 60% on anything above that.

Reduce single person unemployment by €50.

Get rid of childrens allowance.<

Leave public pensions alone

Increase Corperation Tax by .5%(this will still leave us ahead of the game)

Public sector pay to be reduced by 5% on the first 50K and 12.5% on anything above.

Tax secondary pensions at 50%.

Get rid of seanad.

Sell Iarannrod Eireann,Bus Eireann.

Town councils axed





There you go......... If I was FG soundbite warrior I would say that will save us a gazillion dollars but in reality it would probably save 10bn

phill106 wrote: »

Isn't hell a catholic only belief?
If you believe in hell, then you would believe in heaven and a god. And as a believer then, would you too not be stupid retarded and sub-human?

reading FAIL

At the end of the day, "Energy Technology" is just just another buzz word.

We dont have the skills to design new stuff. We dont have a reputation for it, and Ireland is not competitive for manufacturing it.

Software is and was what should have been our safety net. But during the boom, people gave up IT degrees to become brick layers, and despite numerous promises, large scale broadband has still not been rolled out across the country, though it has gotten better.

Personally, I think it is too late, and we will lose alot more jobs to Eastern Europe, but if we can keep the companies we have, and attract a few more, we could stay afloat. With so many NAMA-fied office blocks we should be giving office space away for free to any company that moves here and employs people. No matter what the size. That and our corporation tax, and a few other small schemes would create jobs, would invite foreign investment, increase our tax take and start the recovery.

syklops wrote: »

We dont have the skills to design new stuff. We dont have a reputation for it, and Ireland is not competitive for manufacturing it.

There's a firm in Galway that designed a new tidal flow energy system, reputation means nothing, and nine of the top ten global exporters are developed countries with a similar cost base to ourselves. Software on the other hand can be done just as easily from India as Dublin.

Dickie Rock on Newstalk today said the government should save money by printing everything in English only.

Does anyone know how much money would be saved by ditching Irish language translations of government communications?

Not that my opinion is worth a fcuk but here you go :-

Approximately 4% of people signing on for unemployment allowance found it impossible to get a job during the boom times. Sorry but this particular group deserve no money at all, food stamps for this lot I'm afraid.

The remaining approximate 10% of people receiving unemployment allowance/benefit should continue to receive assistance albeit at a reduced rate for single people. In general this group of people are productive members of society who happen to be going through very though times. They will provide for themselves again I actually think there are other benefits that should be tackled before reducing the rate of benefit for this group.

As somebody who got my first job through FAS many many years ago It hurts me to say it but FAS is so discredited now It needs replacing. Back to work schemes which encourage people to set up business while allowing them to receive benefits should be encouraged. Proper 3rd level education and up-skilling programs should be in place not useless FAS schemes and bogus certs. Adult college and up-skilling programs should be condensed and ran 12 months a year and not with the normal college timetable.

Rent Allowance - Should be scrapped there are enough empty house, apartments owned either by the council or the state available to house people. Homes under the control of NAMA should be included, the state has or will pay for them via taxpayers money. These state assets will not increase in value any time soon so using them now to house people and reducing rent allowance to zero (a burden on the taxpayer) would be a good intermediate use of these assets until such a time(if any) when the increase in value.

Slappers Single mother allowance/benefits :- Needs complete reform and maybe just scrap it and make abortion legal.

Healthcare - The HSE is a money pit. The administrative part of the HSE need to be completely stripped to the bone. I feel there are too many hospitals in the country and that should be tackled too but lets deal with this after the useless admin staff are gone.

TD's ;- There is too many of them, their wages and expenses need to be slashed.

Make illegal drugs legal - Extra tax revenue

Amhran Nua wrote: »

Long term unemployment during the boom hovered around 1% of the workforce there, including those on disability.

Really was it that low? I was under the impression it was 4% and that was excluding illness benefit dealing with figures of those signing on. I'm sure that's what I read else where including on these forums, but I admit I could be wrong on the 4% figure.

Anyway like I said my opinion is not worth a fcuk.

Also I forgot to include reduce Maternity Benefit from 26 weeks to something much lower like 12 weeks.