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Budget Day - The Official After Hours Thread - (Ireland's undisputed Voice of Reason)

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  • #152
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Goat the dote wrote: »
    I spend 144 a month on medication for my mental health. It's a stretch at the minute. If it goes up much further I may have to ration my medication. I'm applying for a medical card but have been refused twice previously

    Aren't you on the drug payment scheme with that 144? That's the max you pay then for whatever you get.


  • #153
    electrobanana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭electrobanana


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    There may be some delays :D


    http://s1.thejournal.ie/media/2013/10/lift-5.png

    http://s1.thejournal.ie/media/2013/10/liftupdate.png

    http://s0.thejournal.ie/media/2013/10/hugh1.png

    New tax on lifts to follow shortly.


  • #154
    Anyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    ibarelycare wrote: »

    http://s1.thejournal.ie/media/2013/10/lift-5.png


    Keep him in there please. Until after the next election if possible.


  • #155
    Xenji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,507 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    Something to help keep up our steady stream of emigration
    It says a €25m cut in funding to third-level institutions, announced last year and supposed to be for just one year, will be continued in 2014.


  • #156
    LoonyLovegood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,068 ✭✭✭LoonyLovegood


    Well from what I'm hearing I may have to drop out of college and ration my medication. Yay, budgets!


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  • #157
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    super_furry wrote: »
    Aren't you on the drug payment scheme with that 144? That's the max you pay then for whatever you get.

    Yeah that is the drug payment scheme. It's increased by €44 per month in the last 5 years which is a big hit for people who have to avail of it. I'm grateful that the scheme is in place, but the increases every year are difficult.


  • #158
    Xenji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,507 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    super_furry wrote: »
    Aren't you on the drug payment scheme with that 144? That's the max you pay then for whatever you get.

    Yeah and he can also claim money back on what he spends at the end of the year, I think it is 10 percent of his overall yearly spending.


  • #159
    SeaFields
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    And here we go ...:(


  • #160
    TheDoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,140 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    And we are off

    "It's not our fault, we did some good ****, don't get mad at me over this budget, not my fault"


  • #161
    DenMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,383 ✭✭✭DenMan


    In his first paragraph Noonan has already mentioned Fianna Fail twice! :rolleyes:


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  • #162
    electrobanana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭electrobanana


    You know its going to be bad when his hands are shaking like a leaf.


  • #163
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,511 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    get on with it

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #164
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    25 pro business measures


  • #165
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    DenMan wrote: »
    In his first paragraph Noonan has already mentioned Fianna Fail twice! :rolleyes:

    In fairness
    So would I


  • #166
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    VAT in Tourism to stay at 9%


  • #167
    SeaFields
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    3000 net jobs being created a month?! Did i actually here that?!


  • #168
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Claps in the dail for the 9% vat rate remaining in tourism sector - BIG bloody deal


  • #169
    Tugboats
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭Tugboats


    Noonan has the shakes


  • #170
    Vinz Mesrine
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,833 ✭✭✭Vinz Mesrine


    Box of fags up to €20
    Pint up to €10

    These are not necessary to ANYONE and therefore should be taxed to the sky.


  • #171
    electrobanana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭electrobanana


    rabble rabble


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  • #172
    TheDoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,140 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    Flight tax to 0, that is a big deal. O'Leary will be popping the champagne


  • #173
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Yes. Now is the time for quoting Yeats.

    Cos before I was upset. But now, that line has just re-assured the hell out of me.


  • #174
    Xenji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,507 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    SeaFields wrote: »
    3000 net jobs being created a month?! Did i actually here that?!

    Mostly Jobsbridge.


  • #175
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Full steam ahead for the Gravy Train 2.0 - tax cuts for developers. Sure what could go wrong?


  • #176
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    TheDoc wrote: »
    Flight tax to 0, that is a big deal. O'Leary will be popping the champagne

    What is Air Travel tax at the moment?


  • #177
    diograis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭diograis


    I'd probably just get angry if I started watching it tbh, waste of time.


  • #178
    Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Eight Ball


    9% VAT rate remains. That's some feckin joke.


  • #179
    TheDoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,140 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    What is Air Travel tax at the moment?

    Enough to cost the customer between 20-30 euro per entrance to Irish airports


  • #180
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Eight Ball wrote: »
    9% VAT rate remains. That's some feckin joke.

    Why?


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  • #181
    diograis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭diograis


    Eight Ball wrote: »
    9% VAT rate remains. That's some feckin joke.

    did the government ever say this was going to happen?


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