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They can do this without impact because the opposition has none of their own plans to challenge it with.
RTE should have moved to a broadband charge model (per housing unit) years ago but none want to grasp that nettle so the status quo persists.
How can anyone compete against "corporate landlords"
https://www.newstalk.com/news/corporate-landlords-needed-to-fix-housing-crisis-donohoe-1753369
The boxes of sweets are normal enough and fairly tiny in terms of what those advertising companies put n ito RTÉ
Plus the 725 milliion is money given under the auspices of the Comptroler and auditor general so it has to be used for legitimate broadcasting expenses
Its over 3 years aswell
I would not like to see RTÉ closed down
The licence fee has hidden the fact that psb is not profitable
it's programme output is heavily regulated
If it were up to me,I'd switch off rte's expensive transmitters and have them satelite and online only
No need to be pumping out 100kwh at so many sites 24hrs a day
Absolutely scary this. Sure there can never be any repercussions for bad governance if theres no opposition.
Our out of control express train that is public expenditure continues to gather more and more momentum - and this is before the government decides to burn billions more in Budget 2025 with health overruns at "an unprecedented level"
"Today’s fiscal monitor shows spending overruns are escalating rapidly. At the end of July, current spending was €2 billion (4.3%) higher than forecast at budget time."
https://x.com/fiscalcouncil/status/1820872595341762726
IFAC really should resign en masse at this stage as a protest against government stupidity
😆 so that will solve the housing, rental problems, mass emigration etc.,
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/would-a-750-tax-credit-stop-young-people-leaving-ireland-fine-gael-minister-peter-burke-thinks-so/a633610828.html
They are such simplistic idiots. Harris wants to quick fix everything in advance of the election. It's so transparent.
An extra 14 quid in the pocket a week. Unpack the bags darling we're staying put.
These fools are living in another world.
The €725m is not on top of the licence fee, it's the sum of licence fee and exchequer funding.
FG are the simple idiots with the highest first preference votes in the land, according to the polls & very likley to be forming another term in govt with FF in the autumn.
I think the 750 euro thing isnt meant to be viewed in isolation. There will be other benefits im the October budget, hopefully!
Grainne Seoige wants to run for FF in the next election.
Saw that. Presume wants O'Cuiv votes. We are now in the realm of Celebrity Politics in Ireland. Such a joke.
Well there is a dancing jockey in Europe so why not an Irish speaking diamond queen 😁
https://evoke.ie/2024/08/12/entertainment/grainne-seoige-election
Will be interesting to see how it pans out.
I'd have thought she would be left leaning and would go for a party like the Soc Dems.
Haven't heard anything from the Dancing Jockey or the former Rose since being elected.
must read article from Cormac Lucey (again). How the runaway expenditure isn't getting more focus I simply don't know
https://cormaclucey.blogspot.com/2024/08/loose-fiscal-settings-mean-budget-2025.html
Another new record
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/number-in-emergency-accommodation-hits-14429-in-new-record-for-homelessness/a264029955.html
I wonder why these figures come out almost a month late. These figures are for end of July so we've likely set another record since.
Contrast that to the ECB releasing August inflation figures today. Prices still rising.
Latest Sindo/Ireland Thinks poll, pretty much as you were, nobody moving by more than 1%
FFG now on combined 46%, surely a very real -prospect of forming a government without outside help
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/dublin-mep-calls-for-investigation-into-ticketmaster-pricing-after-oasis-ticket-sales-1667257.html
Kids cannot get the places in schools that they want, the emergency wards in our hospitals are bursting, but our local Fianna Fail/Fine Gael MEP Regina Doherty is more concerned about who gets Oasis tickets or not.
This government is all about deflection. It's text book at this stage, it's all they know
Where are Oasis tickets on Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
In fairness, we did ask for this.
You people did vote Regina Doherty as the preferred candidate of all of Dublin so she could fake annoyance at Oasis demanding top dollar for the latest popularity contest.
I wonder what TDs missed out on tickets, did any personally write to Noel and Liam
The Indo reckons two-thirds want to see FF and FG reelected for another term.
While not exactly surprising in any sense, it highlights two things really - the complete lack of any real(istic) political alternatives in this country, and the subsequent rewarding of failure as a result.
These 2 parties have overseen a situation where people can't afford a home (if they could find one in the first place), where parents have their "children" back with them in their 30s, where a single Children's Hospital has become a black hole of taxpayer money with no end in sight and where getting a GP appointment or non-critical care is harder and more expensive than ever, where crime and punishment is a farce and the Gardai are demoralised because of the most useless Justice Minister we've seen in decades and a Commissioner who it seems is hugely unpopular among his own ranks - and oh yes, where the country has been overrun by tens of thousands of third world economic migrants posing as refugees who are then forcibly planted among communities without any regard for those already living there or the additional stresses on all of the above that this causes as well.
But then, why would there be changes when the electorate seem poised to return parties headed by a man who's never had a job outside of his party and no qualifications, and another man who only wanted to be Taoiseach no matter what (so he wouldn't be the odd one out) but who handed over the running of the country to a bunch of unelected civil servants rather than lead through an unprecedented "crisis" situation and who ever since seems to enjoy touring the World at our expense and tut-tutting at the electorate back home for complaining about any of the issues.
I do have a campaign slogan for them though - "5 years squandered, another 5 to piss away" or perhaps "a lot undone, a lot more to come" (which reflects better the destruction of the social contract and increasing friction and division in Irish society that they've promoted in their current term).
More Good Times ahead for sure!
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Not to minimize the many, many failings of our current government but a huge part of the blame for their popularity has to lay with SF. SF have gone from polling at nearly the same as FF and FG combined, to less than either now, in the last 12 months.
Thats an absolutely shocking achievement given we've had the same party in government for 13 years now, and the litany of policy failures on things like immigration, housing and public services.
SF are the only serious/large opposition party that has a chance to lead a government, but have spent their time trying desperately to sit on fences and not offend anyone - instead of actually laying out firm policies that differ from the government.
They've also shown unbelievable arrogance completely ignoring what polls show their supporters want - much stricter rules on asylum seekers etc.
I think the only question now is who will be the third party in government with FF/FG after the next election.
Can't see any way the shinners will be able to get the numbers to form a government if FF/FG want to keep them out.
Not a given that they'll need a third party. If they're on a combined 46% of FPV as per the latest poll, every chance FF & FG will have a workable majority of seats between them.
Clearly most voters disagree with that view,democracy,terrible isn't it
Are these asks not somewhat conflicting?
You seem on one hand to be saying Sinn Fein are too flip floppy and not strong enough to their principles for fear of upsetting a cohort people (I agree with this view).
Then in the last paragraph you say they are not being strict enough on restricting asylum seekers and need to change their position completely on this because it’s upsetting people? (Sinn Fein are (supposedly) a left wing democratic socialist party with a history of being very supportive of open borders)
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