Just increase costs, decrease standards and quality then pretend it’s all thanks to uncontrollable unavoidable external factors while those that make these claims remain untouched or better yet continuously profit with unexplained high profit margins…
Unavoidable? For most of us, this should read as “already happened”.
If the energy price shock is being blamed, have the govt done anything to prevent or mitigate a repeat occurrence? I’ll take anything at all. Even rumours.
Or are they going to continue to do things to the detriment of our energy security and living standards like closing our national gas reserves and preventing the construction of LPG terminals.
What’s the strategy here?
Why is the government acting like passive commentators recently ?Every statement out of Leo Varadkar recently has him making passive commentary on stuff he is largely responsible for
If they gave every household 50000.00 from the 9.7 billion they have of our tax money it wouldn’t lead to this but no they will give themselves a raise while we all suffer and make even more money off us. A lot like CircleK is doing by controlling the price of diesel and petrol.
We are seriously overreliant on the multinationals here. Our economy is in bad need of diversification. We can’t be the land of beef and tech forever.
Mr. Carrigaline has jokes
All because of albinos
Thought I accidentally clicked into The Journal comments section for a sec.
Worth pointing out that Dep if Finance make it their mission to always predict doom and gloom (bar the idiot McCreevey) as if they are correct they can say we said this was likely and if they turn out to be wrong it’s a good thing. Win win
Translation: electricity and heating bills are never going back down and there will be no 200euro next winter.
Thats what this is about. Buttering people up for extortionate electricity and heating prices.
Should retitle that as loss in seats for government TDs ‘unavoidable’.
Sounds like we need a new Department of Finance, because this one doesn’t know what it’s doing.
Must be Sinn Féin’s fault
> Mr McGrath acknowledged this situation earlier this month when he said that by far the most important factor behind last year’s €5 billion surplus was the strength of corporation tax revenue. He spoke of the risk to these receipts and said that was why the Government was transferring part of the windfall to the “rainy day fund”.
That’s **€5 billion quid available for immediate spending by the government** – and he’s making up bullshit excuses to not spend it, **they are going to let that money be eroded away by inflation in a fund instead of spend it**.
Complete economic incompetence. Not only is choosing to run a surplus economically irresponsible (by definition it’s a flow of money being taken out of the private sector), but the idiots are choosing to burn tens of millions of that money a year by just leaving it sitting around.
We may not be in a recession yet, but the fuckers are still using a variety of austerity politics against us – treating government finances as if they operate like household finances.
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But not for everyone of course.
You can’t fix it overnight
Just increase costs, decrease standards and quality then pretend it’s all thanks to uncontrollable unavoidable external factors while those that make these claims remain untouched or better yet continuously profit with unexplained high profit margins…
Unavoidable? For most of us, this should read as “already happened”.
If the energy price shock is being blamed, have the govt done anything to prevent or mitigate a repeat occurrence? I’ll take anything at all. Even rumours.
Or are they going to continue to do things to the detriment of our energy security and living standards like closing our national gas reserves and preventing the construction of LPG terminals.
What’s the strategy here?
Why is the government acting like passive commentators recently ?Every statement out of Leo Varadkar recently has him making passive commentary on stuff he is largely responsible for
If they gave every household 50000.00 from the 9.7 billion they have of our tax money it wouldn’t lead to this but no they will give themselves a raise while we all suffer and make even more money off us. A lot like CircleK is doing by controlling the price of diesel and petrol.
We are seriously overreliant on the multinationals here. Our economy is in bad need of diversification. We can’t be the land of beef and tech forever.
Mr. Carrigaline has jokes
All because of albinos
Thought I accidentally clicked into The Journal comments section for a sec.
Worth pointing out that Dep if Finance make it their mission to always predict doom and gloom (bar the idiot McCreevey) as if they are correct they can say we said this was likely and if they turn out to be wrong it’s a good thing. Win win
Translation: electricity and heating bills are never going back down and there will be no 200euro next winter.
Thats what this is about. Buttering people up for extortionate electricity and heating prices.
Should retitle that as loss in seats for government TDs ‘unavoidable’.
Sounds like we need a new Department of Finance, because this one doesn’t know what it’s doing.
Must be Sinn Féin’s fault
> Mr McGrath acknowledged this situation earlier this month when he said that by far the most important factor behind last year’s €5 billion surplus was the strength of corporation tax revenue. He spoke of the risk to these receipts and said that was why the Government was transferring part of the windfall to the “rainy day fund”.
That’s **€5 billion quid available for immediate spending by the government** – and he’s making up bullshit excuses to not spend it, **they are going to let that money be eroded away by inflation in a fund instead of spend it**.
Complete economic incompetence. Not only is choosing to run a surplus economically irresponsible (by definition it’s a flow of money being taken out of the private sector), but the idiots are choosing to burn tens of millions of that money a year by just leaving it sitting around.
We may not be in a recession yet, but the fuckers are still using a variety of austerity politics against us – treating government finances as if they operate like household finances.
But not for them.
How do these chancers keep getting voted in?