Nappies for Cowen.

Check this out:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0430/1224245683830.html
Brian Cowen better clear out his letterbox.

THE TAOISEACH Brian Cowen will be faced with a deluge of nappies on May 18th from a group of parents protesting against plans to means test or tax children’s allowance from the beginning of next year.

The group, called Protest Against Child Unfriendly Budget (PACUB), consists of over 500 parents who feel families were disproportionately targeted by the recent Budget and who face a similarly disproportionate budget at the end of the year.

As well as sending nappies to the Taoiseach to highlight their concerns, the group is urging parents to sign an online petition on the social networking site Facebook and to download and send a protest letter from their web site www.childbenefit.info to the relevant Ministers and their local TDs.

The group is calling for Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan to reverse his decision to remove the early childcare supplement and plans to target children’s allowance prior to the local and European elections on June 5th.

The scrapping of the early childcare supplement means that parents of children under five will lose an annual net amount of € 984 per child from January 1st next year.

Children’s allowance is currently worth € 166 per child, per month or € 1,992 per annum for each child.

In order for an average middle-income family to compensate for the combined shortfall of losing the early childcare supplement and children’s allowance being means-tested or taxed they will need to earn an additional income of € 5,000 per child, per annum, according to PACUB. They say this figure relates to the additional income needed, before taxes and levies are deducted from salaries.

For many parents, the group says, these additional cutbacks as well as the increased taxes and levies combined with the rising cost of childcare make returning to work impossible.

More information on the campaign is available at www.childbenefit.info

galwayrush

Free food.No wonder he's overweight.:rolleyes:

Captain-America

What a stupid name for a Protest group!

galwayrush

Captain-America wrote: »

What a stupid name for a Protest group!

****ty name ,:pac:

SoWatchaWant

Brian Cowen is fat AND ugly lol

stepbar

There's some parents out there who use the children's allowance as a slush fund for the kids when they turn 18. Fcuk that. I wasn't handed 20k+ when I turned 18 and I'll be dammed if my tax money continues to go towards funding that sh1te. Means test it and be done with it.

Guy:Incognito

Childrens allowance should never have been brought in across the board in the first place. Huge amounts of money have been spent over the years giving money to loads if people in society that really didnt need it.

S.I.R

dojojoe wrote: »

Check this out:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0430/1224245683830.html
Brian Cowen better clear out his letterbox.

can we have a perm ban on all this political banter ??

im SICK to death of people Who think they know everything about the government making threads


i come to AH to see filthy inuendo not " the government ive been abusing for years has got me nuts in a vice... Wah wah wah "


if you dotn like it - go to africa. Get super aids.

randylonghorn

Nappies?! I thought the National Gallery had established that Biffo wears blue y-fronts? :pac:

Dante

What spastic dribbler came up with that name.....!?

galwayrush

Are they going to means test all the kids at home in Poland?:rolleyes:

stepbar

galwayrush wrote: »

Are they going to means test all the kids at home in Poland?:rolleyes:

or China for that matter....

O sometimes I wish the social welfare were like the police i.e. Do a search -> no kid -> kid not presented in a few hours with birth cert and photo id = allowance cut.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

So these guys are protesting that they won't have enough money to lok after their kids but can still affor to spend money on nappies that they aren't going to use...

ok.

Mind you, FF are so full of ****, they could probably use them.

Sharpshooter

It's a bit mental that the likes of Pat Kenny, Gerry Ryan and the like get Children's Allowance tbh.

They don't need it and TDs and Ministers should also be excluded.
Fecks sake even Bono is entitled to it.
It really is a load of crap the way this system works.

TPD

I dont get why people protest when something is changed from mandatory to means tested - if you need the money you will still get it, and if you dont need it then fcuk up, the rest of the country does!

Edit: Mandatory is probably the wrong word, but me so sleepy.

TheZohanS

dojojoe wrote: »

Nappies for Cowen

Sounds like a fair swap.

00112984

Child benefit should be abolished. Those who choose to not have children are already having their taxes used to pay for schools, early childcare supplement etc.

People should be able to provide for the number of children they choose to have without relying on government hand-outs.

TPD

00112984 wrote: »

Child benefit should be abolished. Those who choose to not have children are already having their taxes used to pay for schools, early childcare supplement etc.

People should be able to provide for the number of children they choose to have without relying on government hand-outs.

To be fair, investing in schools benefits everyone, not just those with kids. Gotta have people flipping your burgers when you hit 80 :P

MayoForSam

I reckon we should all just pac ub and leave this useless excuse for a country.

Our great leader has lost the will to govern and is a prime candidate for one of those fetish lads who have regressed to living in an oversized cot and getting breast-fed, so maybe he might actually get some use out of any nappies sent to him (XXXL of course).

mr_disc

I'm guessing these nappies will be purchased up North ? :P