Paschal was against protecting WFH because the capital needed us all to be buying €4 coffees on our forced morning commutes. He fought Leo on it and won about 18 months ago.
Thats the reason why you’ll be stuck on a sweaty bus or in gridlock traffic at 7pm while your young child takes their first steps in the childminders.
Imo that’s far more important than the state of health and cost of housing.
Forget about costing seats, it’s costing real people their futures. We’ve had multiple opportunities to solve the problems facing our society, and FF/FG have passed them up because they didn’t have the balls, vision, or gumption to act on then.
We had close to a decade of zero/negative interest rates loans the government could have used to invest in housing/public infrastructure, they sat on their hands and that opportunity is now gone for the forseeable.
We now have massive tax surpluses which look likely to continue for many years, but the commentary around these from the government is actually one of trepidation and worry that they will dissappear as soon as they have appeared… I have no doubt they’ll squander this chance as well.
Alternative headline “FG are mad because they can’t be populist”
Anyone else remember when the whole idea about a strong economy was a rising tide lifting all boats?
The Government expanded spending by €11Bn in the last budget. Their spending priorities, not their level of spending, is the problem. A few quid back on your tax at Budget time isn’t worth much when you can’t get a GP appointment for a sick child
This whole budget thing is posturing.
The lads in charge don’t want to spill the beans too early or they’ll lose the impact of announcing it.
Everyone’s going to get something, but it’s the middle income workers that get the least relatively.
“I’d be wasting my time going to him for any sort of funding for a local project. You’d swear it was his own money, the way he carries on.”
Is it just me or this not how we want the Minister of Finance to treat taxpayers money? It’s not a never-ending gravy train for elected officials to fund local projects.
Jesus, sounds like they’re fearing the wrong lad. Leo alone will be their downfall. They’re in for some serious shock.
Absolutely classic from the government to be annoyed at one of the few politicians good at their job
I’d imagine he’s got to be one of their highest rating ministers. Certainly more so than Leo
Would have made much more sense economically to invest heavily in new luas/train/metro lines instead of a tax cut.
My problem isn’t with Paschal being prudent. That’s literally his job.
The issues are housing and cost of living
Ahh yeah, Prudent Paschal.
Just like Lyin’ Leo.
Misleadin’ Micheál.
Snakey Simon.
Rotten Roderic.
Dirty Darragh.
Underhanded Eamon
Nothing Norma
Every member of the current government is going to cost them seats.
Imagine they cared about the country more than their seats, Fine Gael could be considered a viable government rather than corporate occupiers paving the way for a UI under British rule.
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Fiscal responsibility was never sexy
Paschal was against protecting WFH because the capital needed us all to be buying €4 coffees on our forced morning commutes. He fought Leo on it and won about 18 months ago.
Thats the reason why you’ll be stuck on a sweaty bus or in gridlock traffic at 7pm while your young child takes their first steps in the childminders.
Imo that’s far more important than the state of health and cost of housing.
Forget about costing seats, it’s costing real people their futures. We’ve had multiple opportunities to solve the problems facing our society, and FF/FG have passed them up because they didn’t have the balls, vision, or gumption to act on then.
We had close to a decade of zero/negative interest rates loans the government could have used to invest in housing/public infrastructure, they sat on their hands and that opportunity is now gone for the forseeable.
We now have massive tax surpluses which look likely to continue for many years, but the commentary around these from the government is actually one of trepidation and worry that they will dissappear as soon as they have appeared… I have no doubt they’ll squander this chance as well.
Alternative headline “FG are mad because they can’t be populist”
[Highest ever GDP, record tax take, record lowest unemployment](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxMuIdpWYAEeXlU?format=jpg)
Anyone else remember when the whole idea about a strong economy was a rising tide lifting all boats?
The Government expanded spending by €11Bn in the last budget. Their spending priorities, not their level of spending, is the problem. A few quid back on your tax at Budget time isn’t worth much when you can’t get a GP appointment for a sick child
This whole budget thing is posturing.
The lads in charge don’t want to spill the beans too early or they’ll lose the impact of announcing it.
Everyone’s going to get something, but it’s the middle income workers that get the least relatively.
“I’d be wasting my time going to him for any sort of funding for a local project. You’d swear it was his own money, the way he carries on.”
Is it just me or this not how we want the Minister of Finance to treat taxpayers money? It’s not a never-ending gravy train for elected officials to fund local projects.
Jesus, sounds like they’re fearing the wrong lad. Leo alone will be their downfall. They’re in for some serious shock.
Absolutely classic from the government to be annoyed at one of the few politicians good at their job
I’d imagine he’s got to be one of their highest rating ministers. Certainly more so than Leo
Would have made much more sense economically to invest heavily in new luas/train/metro lines instead of a tax cut.
My problem isn’t with Paschal being prudent. That’s literally his job.
The issues are housing and cost of living
Ahh yeah, Prudent Paschal.
Just like Lyin’ Leo.
Misleadin’ Micheál.
Snakey Simon.
Rotten Roderic.
Dirty Darragh.
Underhanded Eamon
Nothing Norma
Every member of the current government is going to cost them seats.
Imagine they cared about the country more than their seats, Fine Gael could be considered a viable government rather than corporate occupiers paving the way for a UI under British rule.