Cost of living

I'm not too long off , but don't tell anyone 😁

I suspect that why people come back for a few weeks at Christmas, apart from the stuffed turkey and trimmings 😁

Indeed your wonderful cat must get priority 😏

So I get 200e off an electricity bill that’s already about 300 too much, woop de **** doo. Yet again the people who work on the levels just outside the grants for heating etc get screwed again.

Drop some of that insane tax take you make off the pumps for a start, undo the MUP and tell Eamon and the rest of those leafy suburb climate bollixologists to **** off - no more carbon tax increases or any of that other “tax our way out of climate change” bullshit. Time for the kids to go to bed and the adults to start sorting **** out.

Just watching the predicted row over this on the late debate, there's a clown from FF trying to defend the infensible, utterly clueless, essentially doesn't understand how the eligibility criteria for fuel allowance works and seems to think CWO at local intero centres wear a full time Halo and are deserving of sainthoods 🙄

Edit

Apologies its actually Fergus O Dowd TD FG making an ejit of himself

What about Tory Island? Build a bridge from Magheraroarty pier so the Luas can reach them?

A now steady on 🤣 there won't be much Punts left after 33 government ministers head off on their St Patrick's Junkets ,covering all corners of the Globe.

I agree, I mentioned this earlier, I've long being paying more in levies and standing charges than I do for actual electricity 👍

I'm sensing it's an owner occupier home and if it's like my 200 year old cottage (before I renovated it) this scheme will either require substantial borrowings or strict criteria attached for those in receipt of "Certain SW payments " to get 100% grant and all this aside from the possibility ,if it takes off (and I doubt it will) , a decade for retrofitters to get to them 🤔

Fair point 😉

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Yep I hear you , I live so rural , even the crows flying over bring a packed lunch 😁

Whilst I own my home, small mortgage , there was nothing for renters, Middle income earners travelling distances to work. I was shocked (if its true) that 390k households in receipt of fuel allowance and the €125 one off payment welcome as to the €200 electric rebate.

Those renting and paying unsustainable rents will be rightly furious , along with those on low to middle incomes.

I honestly don't know what the answer is but if government seriously think these measures will make a serious difference to people's circumstances, they are clearly deluded.

Michael Mc Grath on morning Ireland taking shtye , going on about the alleged exceptional needs payment available from local Intero centres, clearly he nor a single government TD has visited a local Intero Centre in years .