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see there all at it no wonder he thought Story did nothing wrong. Is there a way to check when the property was transferred to his wife's name ? I'm confused how it his property if his wife owns it ??
Legally it would be hard to enforce that his wife's property should be declared, after all it is him or any other TD that ran for office and not their spouse. However that doesn't mean a conflict of interest wouldn't arise and therefore politicians should voluntarily disclose such information. It shouldn't always be about doing the bare minimum to comply with the rules. Lessons learned and all that guff...
Imagine a situation where he is a line minister, which will happen soon enough, and his wife had shares in a company that could potentially benefit from the policy of that department. If his wife benefits, he benefits.
That spineless weasel varadkar would do well, if he did similar here. When even the working poor are hit with a marginal tax rate of fifty percent. If they have billions to waste, abolish usc, cut higher rate of income tax...
How many extra beds and doctors/nurses could we have secured if the government hadn't made a complete mess of the Childrens hospital?
The final cost of the National Children's Hospital is set to be well north of €2bn, an insider has revealed.
Contracts Awarded at Children's Hospital Before Plans Finished (extra.ie)
And the massive final bill has less to do with pandemic-related delays and construction inflation than the fact that contracts were awarded before plans were completed.
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Shameful.
Good to see what FG think of people that are struggling and who dared to protest, out of touch.
From someone who was literally handed a job....ffs...
is anything ever undertaken by the Govt actually on budget, must be some cowboys there?
Abolish the USC and everyone wins. Something for all.
Great article here on FFG wrecklessness, the absolute delicious irony, that when these band of fools, now joined at the hip, bring down the economy TOGETHER!
You are obviously struggling to get past the sectarian headcount element of the Census results. In many ways, by copperfastening the third minority, these Census results have made a united Ireland less likely, unless it is of a different type than envisaged. Those with a Northern Irish identity want a Northern Ireland. That can be under the UK or part of a federated republic.
Great article. Abusing and destroying the magical money tree will be their legacy. The young people will never forgive or forget. They won't be allowed to given the debt they are inheriting.
The Children`s Hospital was a mess from the outset, and went downhill after that and 2 billion is a crazy price, but at least if it is ever finished it will be used, and looking at the latest debacle on smart meters you could be fooled into thing it good value at that price.
1.2 billion for smart meters, plus another 150 million borrowed by the ESB to install them, (which they have been doing for almost 3 years now with 930,000 installed) and just 37,900 opting to use them.
I get confused all the time at the chopping and changing.
Posters complaining that the government don't spend enough, and then complaining that they spend too much.
At some point, were they spending the correct amount, even for a day?
No its a fact they waste a lot they spend too much on waste.
Are you talking about the Children's hospital spend or the National Debt value for money ??
100%.
Waste and Corruption.
They wouldnt know what a hard decision was, they have never had to make any! They got their bailout, then the holy grail of ridiculous corporation tax receipts, keeps bailing them out...
They are going to face permanently reduced seat counts. There must be billions of waste in the system, address any of it and you can abolish usc, lpt. Lpt in particular brings in a pittance. Both massive vote winners, but it shows you how against change and lazy they are... accepting massively reduced role in government, because they only want to spend like lunatics... cant wait for the next bailout and strike intervention.
Working poor hit with a fifty percent marginal rate of tax, paying for people who were earning 70 euro a week and all of a sudden get made redundant fur to covid and now get e350 a week for years, to do nothing. While many businesses cant get staff, because who the hell would actually work 40 hours a week, say an extra ten commuting. To be e150 or whatever other pocket change, better off...
Ffg warning about sf being reckless with the economy is comedy!
That Pound Shop Goebbels line being pushed by FFG to cover up its lack of planning for a Border Poll and a Reunited Ireland is intellectually dishonest. But what else could one expect of these people? There is a partitionist element in FFG that does not want Reunification because it would reduce the number of seats that their parties would have in an all-Ireland Dail. FFG have latched on to the "Northern Ireland" option in an attempt to distract from FFG incomptence.
Regards...jmcc
Hi I am a long time watcher or lurker of this thread, I saw this chart posted somewhere else today and I thought of here.
Ireland are the second worst country for protecting their businesses and households from the energy crisis. Each government from the countries on the chart have implemented measures that will protect their people and their businesses. It just happens that some of the countries mentioned implemented very little like. Ireland is only behind Finland and much of their support is about to happen, last week saw them implement two of their propositions and they will give energy companies guarantees of up to €10bn with loans for households to be paid. They are also looking at accelerating their green energy program by funding it heavily. That will make us the worst crowd.
Any link to the report? Without knowing how the report is compiled it is hard to understand why we are such an outlier. How much of that includes nationalisations, bailouts and loans to energy companies? I don't think they should count. It would be a sizable chunk of Germany's, that is for sure. Is it counting things other governments have announced but have not yet fully implemented? If so, then it likely doesn't include things we are going to include in the budget seeing as it has not been announced yet.
Edit: I think I found it https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/national-policies-shield-consumers-rising-energy-prices
From a quick look, it does include loans for energy companies (at least Austria and Germany anyway). It includes budget measures announced for Netherlands. Our budget hasn't been announced yet so won't show up on it. It includes an increase to the minimum wage in Netherlands which doesn't exactly seem like a cost for the state so I think that is an odd inclusion. Most of Denmark's (6.05b out of 6.77b) is just a loan scheme to consumers to spread energy payments. Sure it is helpful but it is just delaying the pain.
It also includes windfall taxes which aren't government spending so don't help people or businesses. If those windfall taxes get used to fund measures to help people then it essentially gets double counted. E.g. Ireland spent 400m on the energy credit and 655m overall. If the government had funded that energy credit using an energy windfall tax, our overall spend would be counted as 1,055m which is stupid.
TLDR: It's interesting but a lot of the things each country has done don't seem very easy to compare
Stopped posting in the other thread. But can anyone tell me has any party now called for a vote ? And If so have they a manifesto for the Public to see how much it's will cost. And how it will be done.
Thanks for that. You are correct that a single page from a report without context is pretty much valueless, unless accompanied by a credible explanation.
That chart will be significantly changed by today's Budget.
Why should you plan for something that isn't going to happen?
Found this a good read from Ronan Lyons in The Currency
Everyone except the exchequer. I'm not a fan of the USC but I'd prefer to see it kept and used in a better manner
The USC is one of the most interesting innovations in taxation over the last decade. Increasing USC and reducing income tax will help get rid of tax reliefs in a slow methodical way for example, and in a way that spreads the pain over a decade or so, if you gradually replace USC with income tax.
When the USC came in the number of tax bands on wages took a huge jump and probably made it more fair in a way as the cut-offs were narrowed. Although I don't get why they can't just absorb the USC into income tax
Because you don't get pension relief on USC or medical insurance relief etc., it is a much more valuable tax. I think that reducing income tax by 3% could be balanced by a USC increase of 2%. Doing that every year, or something similar for a decade would phase out tax relief as the Commission on Taxation has suggested, and would do so in a way that would be easier on people.
Minor enough costs for the exchequer on the pension/health insurance reliefs. The govt could even sell it as a benefit to having pension/health insurance
Those are not the only tax reliefs, just used as an example.
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