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  1. I’ll vote for the party that spends every last cent of it on capital projects.
    I’m sick of paying Swedish tax rates and getting Albanian infrastructure.

  2. Just in time for FG/FF before the next election. The budget this year will be interesting. It makes me optimistic, but at the same time I’ll believe it when I see it with this current government. As someone not aligned to any political party, its their chance to spend properly and get me on their side before next election. Let’s just hope they don’t mess it up.

  3. That is enough for 64,000 homes @ 250k each. Someone should place an Order with Acme Houses to make sure they are delivered on time.

  4. People go on about housing and that is a big one but we should two areas.
    – Navy
    – third level education

    For the navy we will soon have interconnectors and pretty major transatlantic cables. The Russians have cut some cables or sabotaged others. At the minimum we should be able to police our waters which we are barely able to.

    Third level funding is in dire straits. A nation of our level of supposed wealth and development should be targeting third level education equivalent to Switzerland.
    We should try to target high competencies in Data science, wind power, everything IT and pharma.

    Basically play to our strengths. The only way we can keep the current levels of economic growth is by investing in education. The tax flows from the big corporations shouldn’t be relied on because someday the situation could change and things can change pretty quickly. We should be like Switzerland we have a high level of top class universities.

  5. Half of that should be affordable housing, the other half should be invested in our future for when we don’t have it so cushy with the multinationals

  6. How is it possible we all are able to spend money we don’t have and then there exists a thing where there’s too much money to spend😅

  7. Listening to Pascal Donohue on matt Cooper there and he basically said they’re gonna hoard the money in case of a financial crisis in a few years time. So they’re basically gonna do fuck all with it.

  8. We don’t have enough Statues,l would love to see big Statues,l mean massive Louis XIV sized Statues of great heroes of lreland like Patrick Sarsfield, James II,Theobald Wolftone and the Great Hugh Dubh O’Neill all over Dublin. Twenty or thirty foot high statues in Italian Marble would be beautiful and lift so many spirits. It would provide a lot of employment too. A large statue in every Town of more than 10,000 inhabitants all over lreland would be so nice. We are in danger of forgetting our history,one thing lreland needs is Statues,lots of them.

  9. so why the fuck are they talking about raising individual tax rates? seems like they should be lowered or we should see something for the fucks high rates we currently pay

  10. Please don’t have it out to people. Use it on capital expenditure.

    Build as much as possible for as long as the money is coming in.

  11. Pearse Doherty absolutely licking his chops , we’ll reduce the pension age to 62 just to piss off the french, Mary Lou can give everyone a free holiday home, give Putin €1 billion for United Ireland propaganda . . . Just let him at it

  12. I understand all the reasons we can’t just pump it into the economy, but none of those reasons rule out spending it on a few big infrastructure projects.
    It’s probably the only way we could actually use it without banjaxing our economy.

    Norway stuck all of their “complicated income” money into a single walled off fund that they use for pensions and stuff, we could do the same. Stick it all in a single infrastructure fund.

  13. Navan railway 1 billion
    Athenry to Clare Morris railway 1 billion
    2 more children’s hospitals equivalent 4-5 billion
    Cork luas 1.5 billion
    Housing 2 billion
    Defense spending and fighters 2 billion
    Health investments 2 billion
    Debt servicing rest

  14. Sovereign Wealth Fund actively managed.

    Restoration of the Defence Forces so that we can exploit huge technological developments to deliver a credible neutrality or significant contribution to an EU defensive alliance at a lesser cost than ever possible.

    R&D fund.

    HOUSING HOUSING HOUSING.

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