Its really mad thats theres any increase to dole payments at all, no problem putting it on disability and pension etc but theres a labour shortage at the moment we shouldn’t be increasing unemployment payments.
An extra €12 a week amounts to €624 over a year too put it in perspective
Maybe get a job?
They probably forgot no one else has unvouched expense accounts or hire their family for “assistant” jobs
Most of these TDs have never worked in their life
You get more on Tús/job bridge.
They don’t deserve that 1000 and any amount prior.
Lately?
Public sector pay increases apply to the entire public sector. We’ve been over this.
The people on job seekers in an economy short of labour really deserve more
If this is the level of critical analysis we are to expect on the budget I might take the next few days off
They’ll pay tax so will get less than half of the thousand whereas the social welfare person will keep all of their 624 so they actually are getting more.
If only welfare re ipients could approve their own increases with limited oversight……but that would just be silly, right?
Utterly moronic take. Government is about to release unprecedented levels of spending today to help alleviate the cost of living crisis. They’ve been shambolic at times but the early indications are that the measures in this budget are significant. Idiots like yourself like to bitch and moan but have zero understanding of what actually goes into running a country. Childcare, energy, income tax all being reduced, among other things. Hardly a case of let them eat cake
They’ve been at this park for a while now.
They’ve no interest in fixing anything. Just want to look good by throwing all the monies at everything.
They know full well it won’t make a real difference and will likely fuck up the next governments plans
Lol I’m a PhD student and got excited about the one-off 1000€ payment to PhDs that was announced, until I realised it’s a fee reimbursement to university department (the ones who typically pays the fees for their PhD researchers) so really they’re sending cash to universities, not actual PhD students’ pockets 🙁
12 * 52, 1000 – 40%
To a student like me on BTEA, 12 euro a week makes a world of difference, I can squeeze almost a weeks worth of dinners out of that by batch cooking meals and freezing them!
I’m getting more of a “let them struggle to even afford cake or anything else whatsoever. More wine, Taoiseach?” vibe from them.
It’s always good to occasionally drop into this sub to remember just how shite the posts truly are.
Glad to see the OP getting rightly downvoted in the comments for this. It’s a pay rise linked to public sector pay. Also, 1000 extra a year is feck all after tax, probably about €9 or so extra a week so the social welfare payment is higher. Describing one as a yearly payment and one as a weekly one is deliberately disingenuous. TDs are on a great salary, absolutely no doubt, but you are not going to be living any type of millionaire lifestyle on 100k a year.
I have big issues with the competence levels of a some of our TDs and how poorly suited they are to their roles, but be thankful we don’t have the same blatant levels of self-enrichment that you see from UK or especially US politicians.
Seriously guys we are bending over and letting them feck us
Scroungers gonna scrounge
Let them eat Yellowpack?
cost of living crisis isn’t that hard to deal with
caveat, solving it totally is extremely hard, but keeping it all under the crisis crazy level is not that hard
1/ stop arguing that building cannot be built in 2 month and use this as an excuse to not build anything at all, doing something the first time they used that argument 20 years ago and the rent crisis would not be here
2/ find a fair way to cap rents and on sell prices and apply it NOW (this has worked in many places around Europe to avoid the fucked up situation we are in now
3/ take back property owned by cuckoo funds and not on the market and all the units that fail to adhere to the cap and rent as social controlled rent units or sell to first time buyer
4/ install a good 1st time buyer incentive / help / 0% interest system
OK now we have solved or are on the way to have solved the housing crisis which is a good half of the cost of living crisis.
next
energy prices, see what the rest of Europe is doing. help with the cost of energy this winter as an emergency, then work at building a stabilizing mechanism, other countries have tried and succeeded with diversification, variable taxing with higher tax when prices are low to save and fund lower tax when prices are high to absorb some of the prices hike, national brut or transformed gas price partial control with weekly caps…
inflation control is the hardest bit, but I’ll leave it here that the corporate liberal economic system of not taxing big companies did work at creating jobs and higher paying jobs too BUT it also is likely to have brought the other crisis and to be at the core of the inflation too, it is what created the subprime crisis that drove us to pay more taxes so we could bail out landlords and banks… maybe not doing too much of that would be good
Funding all of this is hard too, but as per above point taxing those mega company and asking the bailed out one to finally PAY BACK OUR MONEY would be a definite start
all that from a nobody, just imagine what smart people could do if only it was convenient for them, sadly they benefit from all this mess and would have to not benefit so much if any of the actual solution were implemented so it isn’t likely for those smarter (richer and more in power) than us to ever do anything worthwhile about it
Oh fuck off, one of the most generous welfare states in the world has just got more generous. If that’s not enough for you here’s a crazy thought, get a job. And if you’re going to compare at least use the same measurement.
Solves the crisis of how they are going to buy a new house/car/horse, etc
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… lately ?
Its really mad thats theres any increase to dole payments at all, no problem putting it on disability and pension etc but theres a labour shortage at the moment we shouldn’t be increasing unemployment payments.
An extra €12 a week amounts to €624 over a year too put it in perspective
Maybe get a job?
They probably forgot no one else has unvouched expense accounts or hire their family for “assistant” jobs
Most of these TDs have never worked in their life
You get more on Tús/job bridge.
They don’t deserve that 1000 and any amount prior.
Lately?
Public sector pay increases apply to the entire public sector. We’ve been over this.
The people on job seekers in an economy short of labour really deserve more
If this is the level of critical analysis we are to expect on the budget I might take the next few days off
They’ll pay tax so will get less than half of the thousand whereas the social welfare person will keep all of their 624 so they actually are getting more.
If only welfare re ipients could approve their own increases with limited oversight……but that would just be silly, right?
Utterly moronic take. Government is about to release unprecedented levels of spending today to help alleviate the cost of living crisis. They’ve been shambolic at times but the early indications are that the measures in this budget are significant. Idiots like yourself like to bitch and moan but have zero understanding of what actually goes into running a country. Childcare, energy, income tax all being reduced, among other things. Hardly a case of let them eat cake
They’ve been at this park for a while now.
They’ve no interest in fixing anything. Just want to look good by throwing all the monies at everything.
They know full well it won’t make a real difference and will likely fuck up the next governments plans
Lol I’m a PhD student and got excited about the one-off 1000€ payment to PhDs that was announced, until I realised it’s a fee reimbursement to university department (the ones who typically pays the fees for their PhD researchers) so really they’re sending cash to universities, not actual PhD students’ pockets 🙁
12 * 52, 1000 – 40%
To a student like me on BTEA, 12 euro a week makes a world of difference, I can squeeze almost a weeks worth of dinners out of that by batch cooking meals and freezing them!
I’m getting more of a “let them struggle to even afford cake or anything else whatsoever. More wine, Taoiseach?” vibe from them.
It’s always good to occasionally drop into this sub to remember just how shite the posts truly are.
Glad to see the OP getting rightly downvoted in the comments for this. It’s a pay rise linked to public sector pay. Also, 1000 extra a year is feck all after tax, probably about €9 or so extra a week so the social welfare payment is higher. Describing one as a yearly payment and one as a weekly one is deliberately disingenuous. TDs are on a great salary, absolutely no doubt, but you are not going to be living any type of millionaire lifestyle on 100k a year.
I have big issues with the competence levels of a some of our TDs and how poorly suited they are to their roles, but be thankful we don’t have the same blatant levels of self-enrichment that you see from UK or especially US politicians.
Seriously guys we are bending over and letting them feck us
Scroungers gonna scrounge
Let them eat Yellowpack?
cost of living crisis isn’t that hard to deal with
caveat, solving it totally is extremely hard, but keeping it all under the crisis crazy level is not that hard
1/ stop arguing that building cannot be built in 2 month and use this as an excuse to not build anything at all, doing something the first time they used that argument 20 years ago and the rent crisis would not be here
2/ find a fair way to cap rents and on sell prices and apply it NOW (this has worked in many places around Europe to avoid the fucked up situation we are in now
3/ take back property owned by cuckoo funds and not on the market and all the units that fail to adhere to the cap and rent as social controlled rent units or sell to first time buyer
4/ install a good 1st time buyer incentive / help / 0% interest system
OK now we have solved or are on the way to have solved the housing crisis which is a good half of the cost of living crisis.
next
energy prices, see what the rest of Europe is doing. help with the cost of energy this winter as an emergency, then work at building a stabilizing mechanism, other countries have tried and succeeded with diversification, variable taxing with higher tax when prices are low to save and fund lower tax when prices are high to absorb some of the prices hike, national brut or transformed gas price partial control with weekly caps…
inflation control is the hardest bit, but I’ll leave it here that the corporate liberal economic system of not taxing big companies did work at creating jobs and higher paying jobs too BUT it also is likely to have brought the other crisis and to be at the core of the inflation too, it is what created the subprime crisis that drove us to pay more taxes so we could bail out landlords and banks… maybe not doing too much of that would be good
Funding all of this is hard too, but as per above point taxing those mega company and asking the bailed out one to finally PAY BACK OUR MONEY would be a definite start
all that from a nobody, just imagine what smart people could do if only it was convenient for them, sadly they benefit from all this mess and would have to not benefit so much if any of the actual solution were implemented so it isn’t likely for those smarter (richer and more in power) than us to ever do anything worthwhile about it
Oh fuck off, one of the most generous welfare states in the world has just got more generous. If that’s not enough for you here’s a crazy thought, get a job. And if you’re going to compare at least use the same measurement.
Solves the crisis of how they are going to buy a new house/car/horse, etc
Government officials getting 1k extra a week now?