The Transport Minister says motorists struggling to pay for Petrol & diesel should contact their local social welfare office for support. EamonRyan says there’s no plans for Government to reduce costs before budget day in October.
The Transport Minister says motorists struggling to pay for Petrol & diesel should contact their local social welfare office for support. EamonRyan says there’s no plans for Government to reduce costs before budget day in October.
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Out of touch scumbag
And a guy gave me shite last week for saying I hate this guy so much!
Genuine question, what can the social welfare office do?
Any budget changes or financial changes would need to come from the Minister for Finance, Pascal Donohue.
He’s sleeping again. No waking this dope up.
An office with which he’ll become intimately acquainted after the next general election.
The conspiracy theorist in me would say that they aren’t willing to do anything before October because they’re hoping folk leave for shores different and be somebody else’s problem.
The realist in me knows nothing will happen before then because they’ve got their summer recess coming up and they don’t want to do anything big to risk that becoming a ‘working holiday’.
The bollocks in me just doesn’t like Ryan!
That’s basically horse 🐴 shit. There’s no way any welfare department would sanction someone in a job for a fuel allowance in case it became the norm for people to apply. The community welfare officer can, but won’t sanction any requests.
That’s basically horse 🐴 shit. There’s no way any welfare department would sanction someone in a job for a fuel allowance in case it became the norm for people to apply. The community welfare officer can, but won’t sanction any requests.
This cant be true. Everything is f**kin means tested. Go through all the applications to be told, oh your income is €5 more than we allow so we cant help you out.
What a Donkey, insulting the poor Donkey here too 🙄
The sooner that gobsh1te Ryan is gone from government the better.
That’s twice now, they’ve managed to make a fcuk of things.
Cycle lanes is all they are good for
Full disclosure: I love the Greens, and I love their policies.
But fuck me, he needs to get some communication coaching. There’s absolutely nothing a social welfare office can do for people who are struggling to fill their tanks. And saying there is is absolute nonsense. There was people on the breadline at €1.50 a litre, how do you not think they’ll be on the breadline at €2.05 a beyond?
What he needs to do is convey how bad it is for people who choose to drive cars and work on solutions. A trade in scheme for used ICE to cars that can be swapped for a used electrical car + a charger installation at home, all launched before the budget would be excellent.
I want cars to go. I want the country to be a futuristic, car-free utopia in my lifetime. But that will not happen overnight, we just don’t have the necessary demographic shift yet, largely down to inaction from successive governments on things like planning, housing and public transport.
So people, like it or not are still reliant on cars especially outside Dublin and Cork. Not all these people are rich. They need a hand. Telling them to go to the social welfare office is like Marie Antoinette saying “let them eat cake”.
Edit: it’s important to note that he made this statement at an event marking the order of an additional 800 100% electric buses. This is an addition to the orders this government has already made on hybrid buses, hybrid trains, electric buses and trains and hydrogen buses. You can’t deny he hasn’t been a good transport minister when it comes to public transport which has been markedly improved even just since the start of the year. Trouble is only 40-50% of the country’s population are feeling it.
SW will basically tell you to “get on yer bike”
Oh Eamon, you funny funny fker.
I can assure anyone who sees this, as someone who works in a local social welfare office, there is fuck all we can do for you and he has no idea what he’s on about.
Seriously, this is real? It isn’t satire? Lads, this country is ridiculous.
It all could have been avoided if they didn’t dismantle the train system from a century ago. Dependency on cars creates a fragile economy. Absolutely no reason Dublin doesn’t have a metro and the country not having a train system. France, UK, Germany all have pretty good systems.
What people is he talking to here, because i am pretty sure the whole country is struggling to pay these prices…
Eamo can’t change the VAT on fuel so he doesn’t have the power to lower prices and he sure as hell doesn’t have sympathy for drivers.
His ideal set up would be for everyone to live akin to medieval peasants. Everyone lives in the same area they’re born and never travel far from there, any necessary travel is done by ~~horse~~ bike and all of our time is spent subsistence farming so as to use up the least amount of resources and have the least environmental impact possible.
Every winter cold and disease will keep the numbers down and control overpopulation.
This is the last man on the island who’d have any sympathy for drivers at the moment, hence the blasé response.
He’s loving the thoughts of increasing numbers being priced out of any travel by car that isn’t absolute emergency travel.
The social welfare office will tell you to go fu©k yourself in not so many words. Cap the price of fuel or pressure businesses to not have a minimum policy in terms of how many days you have to be in the office. I’m now driving again 6 hours a week, another pointless waste of fuel so that I can do half the time to be on-site and there’s no need for it with petrol over €2 and the environment in tatters. My job is completely computer based. Just aggressively allow us to fight to not be on the road when we don’t need to be. Managers can justify their salary with team building events rather than me proving my commitment by sitting in traffic for hours. Pointlessly. It’s so spineless for the same man to telling us to cycle to work and now when we’re told an arbitrary number of days we need to be in traffic there’s no recourse, no instruction from the government to tell a business to justify having workers onsite. Covid 19 is still rampant and again, we’re right back to being servile from the top down. The decision is thoughtlessly left to a company abroad to decide a number, while we scramble to prove everything is back to normal and we work hard. It’s madness, he’s well able to talk but look at the reality we are living. I don’t want to be on the road – facilitate that. Facilitate me arguing to change that. No. Instead, go to the fu©king dole office is the advice, such a buracratic pile of sh!te.
He’s not the worst by far but fact that its him telling us to go to the welfare office is a fu©king joke. Make a law so the expectation is we WFH unless the company proves that we have to be there, all of a sudden the roads are empty again and the business has to justify having us onsite. If we could work from home during Covid we can do it now during a literal fuel crisis.
Daily reminder that there is a minimum excise on fuel set at EU level. There is limited scope to cut the price.
i wonder what will happen when they see all these oil companies profits next year, probably nothing but still. I find it amazing in this age of the ‘knowledge’ economy we are expected to play the same boom and bust, inflation model/game while knowing more than ever how rigged it is.
Cabbage brain.
Anyone think everyone should fill it in and say we all need a 100 quid to fill the car a week on Eamonn Ryan’s advice also that we need 4 new tires
We’re all struggling, pal.
They’re asking us to wait until Oct’s budget and then they’ll throw us a few crumbs [that take a few months to kick in] and then act like they did us a huge favor. And then a few days after passing the budget they’ll give themselves another undeserved raise.
Its a shame that a General Election is still a few years away. If we were going to the polls again in the coming weeks you can bet they would be taking this seriously.
Ryan is insufferable.
Did you see him at the announcement of the purchase of electric buses? Big fucking grin on him, you’d think he was after dipping into his own pocket for them.
Call the social welfare so they can officially tell you they won’t be doing anything to support you.
Hand over every ounce of your financial dignity for € 9.50 a week subsidy whilst the Boyos in government have their stacked up pensions protected under data protection
This is bullshit. I’m a widow with two small kids, I work full time and so I’m not entitled to anything, I don’t get back to school allowance/ medical card etc , I’m just over the threshold for family income supplement. He is mad if he thinks someone can walk in , say they’re struggling to pay for petrol and get a payment. You’d know he never had to deal with the system himself
oooooor how about you build some public transport infrastructure so people dont need to take their car everywhere…?
nope.. thats not the answer.
Not, you know, fucking improve public transport across the country or anything.
Wanker
What can the Social Welfare office do?
And what are they going to say? “Tough shit”.
People working in social welfare are already over worked now they will be all day on the phones today telling people they aren’t entitlted to anything while other claims get further delayed and pushed to the side
To all those hippies that down voted my “I hate Eamonn Ryan” it’s ok I have a fuel card so I’ll keep topping up the tank for free.
Bring on the bad juju woooohoooo
Inflation is not going to stop, if Russia & Ukraine hugged it out, if Brexit were reversed, if COVID ceased to exist, the price of oil would not go down, the cost of living would not decrease, because the dollar, the euro and the pound are worth far less than they were fifteen years ago, real inflation over that time is about 80-100%, €2 now is holds about the same value as €1 in 2008, and petrol cost €1.20 is before the crash.
Governments & Central Banks printed money to bail out the financial industry after the crash, and never stopped, (maybe) they thought the banks would loan the money to businesses, creating economic growth to counter the inflation created by printing, but the banks… *didn’t, so inflation happened, but governments and corporations hid it by driving down the cost of the *basics.
*Huge over-simplification of massive immorality/criminality
There were plenty of signs, the housing market & stock market bubbles, massive increases in asset values, the prices of luxury goods etc. What you need to understand is, you’ve been getting 8 to 10% pay cuts every year since the financial crisis but no one was telling you because you might have tried to do something about it.
Now, there are two ways to reduce the cost of petrol in Ireland, that’s to decrease the tax on it, part of the ‘hiding’ I mentioned earlier, or decrease the number of €’s in circulation, and that’s not going to fucking happen for a whole host of terrible reasons.
So start demanding a pay rise, and I’m not talking about 4/5/6%, you need to be demanding 40/50/60% or you will never get out from under this, we’re talking national general strikes, ‘shut the country down till you get your way’ type shit, or by every metric you will be worse off than your parents, maybe even your grandparents, when they were your age.
First time in my entire life I *ever* contacted anyone in govt about anything was Eamon Ryan’s office regarding tax saver commuter scheme and why I had to continue paying exorbitant amounts each month during lock down when I wasn’t allowed use it.
Never even got an acknowledgement email let alone a response.
€330m in tax last month on fuel, let me repeat that, €330m last month alone in tax revenue.
Should be on r/aboringdystopia