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gettingold2013

Just need to let off some steam 😤

We have 3 people in the house, 2 over 60, and on disability payment, for heart problems and our son with Autism. We live in a 200+ old cottage up a mountain, the only heating we have is an oil heater which our son has in his room, my husband has a blanket, and I use a hot water bottle. Our last bill for esb was over 600 euro. We have to have a car to get to town to get food, so our 20 euro we used to put in doesn't cover the miles that is used to. We will not be able to afford another bill from the ESB for 600 + so we look forward to the government heating discount.

Ok Rant over

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Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613811#Comment_118613811

We're do I start.

Basic household shopping across a range of products.

Utilities: I've not have my bill yet but have access to daily costs, it's jumped by at least 30%

Home Heating oil (extraordinarily expensive)

Diesel, Petrol which you mentioned

Building Materials / Gardening Materials

Rents for those Renting

My biggest fear is anticipated ECB interest rate Rise and by all accounts its coming, this will cause serious problems for those with mortgages, even small ones if people already struggling (and they are)

Etc etc etc

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058232389/cost-of-living

If your ESB bill is 600 euros, the problem is that you are using too much electricity. It's a ridiculous number, irrespective of whether there's a so-called cost of living crisis.

As it happens, I don't believe that there's a crisis at all. It's just the same lazy people using this as an excuse to extract more free money out of government, all the while doing precious little to improve their lot at all in life - forever, in the past - in the present - and in the future.

is_that_so

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118612526#Comment_118612526

Why is public transport suddenly synonymous with the Luas? I've used it a half a dozen times but I will get the benefit of the welcome bus and train reduction.

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118614265#Comment_118614265

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 .

_Kaiser_

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613387#Comment_118613387

This sums it up for me as well.

200 off the ESB bill (even though it's the gas that goes up significantly this time of the year) but that's all this is worth to me.

Another FU to the squeezed middle , expecially if you live outside Dublin. Their public transport reduction (yep that's the Greens influence alright) doesn't cover private operators either - I pretty much drive everywhere anyway, but the one BE route serving the town was withdrawn a few years ago anyway as they couldn't compete with the 2 private companies.

Nothing on diesel or home heating oil, other utilities, or pretty much anything else that the average person is seeing significantly higher prices on.

Jinglejangle69

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613811#Comment_118613811

Everything

NiceFella

Op, find out what's up with your electric bill. Are you mining bitcoin or something? 600 quid is a massive.

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babyducklings1

Does anyone have a breakdown of where exactly costs have increased?

Ok petrol/ diesel is obvious.

Electricity dunno yet till bill comes .

Have heard restaurant meal prices have gone up but haven’t seen it. ( not saying it isn’t true)

What else has gone up?

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613755#Comment_118613755

Fair point 😉

the_syco

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613706#Comment_118613706

If it's owner occupied, insulating the sons room would cut down on the electricity usage. Have seen a few places with no insulation in the attic, and it's a relatively cheap fix. Insulation roll (with plastic sheeting to keep it dry) would assist.

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613678#Comment_118613678

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 🤔

the_syco

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118612466#Comment_118612466

The electric "oil heater" is expensive to run.

OP, if you rent, look in the attic at the insulation, and see if you landlord will improve it. Government has increased the grant for insulation; https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/government-launches-the-national-retrofitting-scheme/#grants-equivalent-to-80-of-the-typical-cost-for-attic-and-cavity-wall-insulation

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613617#Comment_118613617

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

[Deleted User]

I'll say it again ..electricity is cheap ..even with all the hikes and we,ve had three or four hikes...it's the PSO levy ,vat and government taxes that drive it through the roof ...a person said already today that the vat rate needs to be lowered on everything for a year untill things settle...and to gettingold2013 ...there's something wrong with your bill.are u out of contract yet ''change provider.

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613572#Comment_118613572

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.

[Deleted User]

I'm thinking same thing. Maybe they had load estimate blds.

RandomViewer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613557#Comment_118613557

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

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613462#Comment_118613462

I propose, luas needs to be extended to Letterkenny 😁

Dempo1

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

RandomViewer

Add €1000 to tax free allowances, make energy companies guarantee unit price for 12-24 months, allow 100hours overtime tax free each year, introduce flat motor tax rate of €400, do not gouge on the people who tax 3 months at a time.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613462#Comment_118613462

This is it. They should diminish bus eireann and use the money to run a very specific service from free car parks in local town to places of employment and study.

RandomViewer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613294#Comment_118613294

Maximum 4 hour parking anywhere near the bus station in Letterkenny

DarkJager21

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.

[Deleted User]

If they made the expressway services free in the morning they would still struggle to fill them.

If you are commuting from rural Ireland there is very little on offer here.

Would it not make sense to offer a fuel related evidence based tax credit to those on less than 50k

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613235#Comment_118613235

Indeed your wonderful cat must get priority 😏

[Deleted User]

I always thought I might possibly do that, but have my cat at present.

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613146#Comment_118613146

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

Chris_5339762

Its a great idea, but for health insurance and tax reasons it has to be less than 180 days in the year, and unless you're careful with your health insurance, no more than 90 days at a time.

If you plan it and do it carefully though, its great.

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118613076#Comment_118613076

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