Additional €8.3bn in resources for use in Budget 2025

by badger-biscuits

33 comments
  1. Think of all the chain link fences we can buy? Block off every public site in the city!!

  2. No point leaving a surplus for whoever comes after you.

  3. Let’s just throw it at the HSE. They will make short work of it while making services even worse.

  4. It’s time to start building some proper infrastructure. Start planning and founding the Dart Underground and some big projects for outside Dublin.

  5. Time to get serious about infrastructure. Allocate funding to major projects and start breaking down the roadblocks that mean that every large project takes 10 years to go from serious conception to beginning of construction

  6. Just hand it all over to Bam and we might get a childrens hospital some time this decade….will need another 8 billion for the events center in Cork I’m sure though.

  7. Invest in some legacy infrastructure please like build a few rail lines or cork luas or load of wind farms that will benefit when the economy declined next

  8. God I’m actually so sick of this. Don’t give me an extra 20eur or 30eur a month, I’ll lose it. Take everybody’s couple of quid a month and build me a rail connection from Dublin Airport to the city centre. Build me a huge mega prison so we can lock thuggy criminals up instead of suspended sentences and early releases. Give me some public amenity in Limerick City, build me a world of new playgrounds or fund activities for children.

  9. We could have a white water rafting centre in every town in Ireland!

  10. Oh wow just exactly how much the children’s hospital will cost to finish. 😬😬

  11. So slight tax band change and increase in pension/social welfare amounts too incoming.

    We’ll spend feck all of that on infrastructure

  12. Could we build some houses/tower blocks/whatever? If it’s not too much to ask

  13. Time to call a spade a spade and accept we’re shite at this type of stuff, time to bring in lads from the continent or Asia and give them the money to build rail networks/infrastructure etc etc
    Copy the other guys homework, copy the Paris metro/ UK tube system.

    Could look at doing something about the rising threat of flooding fifty years down the line when half the country will be under water.

  14. How about we go full on mad bastard and actually invest a few quid into the country outside of Dublin? The inequality in investment and infrastructure between Dublin and much of the rest of the country is fucking shocking.

  15. They are going to need a huge drain to flush this cash down!

  16. The tax payer still owes about 200 billion in debts thanks to the feckless morons that keep being voted in. 

  17. The National Ambulance Service has a hiring freeze for any new positions, only hiring to replace staff that are leaving. I scored well in a NAS recruitment panel, no idea when I’ll be offered a frontline position.

  18. Finally we can get some of the much needed money to the landlords.

  19. Please please please repave all of the roads! I love love love wasting tax payer money on needless roadworks

  20. What’s the point of all this money if it is not being spend efficiently and effectively?

  21. See a lot of people talking about infrastructure here, only €1.4bn of the €8.3bn is for capital i.e. infrastructure spending, there won’t be anything really impactful built out of that, it’ll only be small time stuff, given the amount and how many Departments it will be split across.

    Outside of that though €14.5bn in capital is being provided in continued investment for the National Development Plan. If you have interest in infrastructure and capital projects, it’s the NDP you should be looking at, not Budget.

  22. What does everyone day to another ma……..children’s hospital!

  23. Railways, prisons, hospitals, houses and I’m sure many other things that we simply will not get.

  24. Imagine spending some of that for public transport, an actual housing reform and overall infrastructure upgrades in the country…

    What a nonsense that would be…ofc they qill spend it all in 1 single project with a private partner thst never goes anywhere.

  25. Build more prisons you idiots!! Put an end to this bollocks slap on the wrist system!!

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