Inflation

The service is gone absolutely cat. They are just hiring a body now rather than a waiter/waitress. at least the manager you would think has to time to say to them 'greet the customer, offer them a table and menu' etc etc. a quick lunch now is nearly a 2 hour event due to slow incompetent staff.

Interestingly, looking at www.cheapestoil.ie, Carlow is the cheapest, being 1350 Vs 1450 in Laois /Offaly/ Kildare. So it's quite clear that, while there's no doubt there's a local price battle, there's a serious amount of gouging going on.

Based on $100 a barrel, prices should make their way back to perhaps €1100 for 1000l. We shall see.

The major problems we are facing right now are inflation and housing crisis, high rents. The government wants to spend 9 billion on building a metro to the airport which only people in one part of Dublin will use. Imagine if they spent 5 billion. building a solar panel network. Coastal wind turbines, this would reduce our reliance on gas oil imports. Then spend 4 billion on social housing or building houses rental units for people who earn less than 25k , put the metro link off till 2030 or lower

Any new housing would have a clause this cannot be sold til 2060, its purely designed for young people or people on lower incomes

If a house is a 3 bed it can only be rented to a single mother or 2 people , rent is based on your salary income, it goes up if your wage go, s up max rent is 140 euro

Ordinary do basic things,prioritise tasks or goals eg the house roof is full of holes, let's fix the roof before you buy a new kitchen and buy double glazed windows

People in a 3bed unit can opt to rent out one room tax free

If we have 10 issues right now building a metro is maybe issue no 11,

Theres taxis and bus, s running from the airport its not an urgent problem

More young people should be encouraged to go to colleges where they are trained as carpenters builders maybe the courses are free or just a token fee

We need more builders carpenters plumbers

More supply in housing would reduce inflation by giving workers cheap places to rent

Where would you build all these houses? On top of existing overpopulated areas? At least if the metro ever does get built it puts infrastructure in place to service green areas that we could build houses on.

A rediculous thought process for this country i know but building infrastructure before housing is a good idea.

Wind energy is not reliable. You have only to look at the SEAI interim report for 2021 to see that. Last year while energy demand in Ireland rose by 4.3%, wind generated electricity supply fell by 15.8%. Overall renewable energy supply dropped from 42% in 2020 to 35% in 2021.

The idea that somehow wind generated electricity will provide us with a 100% secure and reliable source is fallacy. Winter of 2021 and Spring of 2022 wind powered generated energy to the national grid for sustained period was 6% and lower. Had we 16X times as many wind turbines we still would not have had a sufficient supply to fulfill demand and would have experienced electricity supply blackouts.

Neither has renewable energy provided us with cheaper electricity which not long ago was one of the claims. Even in 2020 when we had 42% of our electricity supplied by renewables, (along with Germany one of the highest percentages in Europe), both of us were in the top 4 for the most expensive electricity in the E.U.

How many UB workers will be actually working in Ireland when they pull out of the country fully by the end of next year??

I would cycle from santry to blanchardstown once a week , years ago, there's large parts of Dublin that are empty spaces , I'm not saying build houses just in dublin, build in Cork, Galway, limerick, wherever there is demand , the point is we need 100k plus new houses, apartments, building a metro will. Likely make inflation worse as it will take away 1000s of skilled workers that could be building houses also the government owns large land sites all over the country

Are you saying there's no land left to build houses in Ireland.? Really?

this is not Hong Kong,

Wind farms solar reduces our reliance on paying for oil gas from country's outside the EU

Most people prefer to buy a car than rent a car every week I have no problem with company's making profits as long as they compete with each other and are properly regulated as long as they are not owned by Russia or China . Yes wind power only works when its windy, I think 35 per cent plus power in Ireland is green energy .

Big company's can see the recession is coming, inflation is a major problem. The boom is over. Of course they will cut back on advertising. People will be cutting back on buying luxury items , iPhones, new laptops. Luxury items, expensive meals in posh restaurants

More housing helps everyone as it means young workers have more choice as to where to work and live. Also gen z at some point will. Need to settle down and have kids , they can't do that in a 1 bed flat in rathmines

Maybe in 5 years time look at the situation Re the metro I just think right now reducing inflation plus solving the housing crisis is way more important than build a metro link