Budget 2016

handlemaster

What date is the budget been announced?

Subcomandante Marcos

Aiyana Scruffy Whole-wheat wrote: »

Gee, they have never been so good as they are around here now. 10 to 15 years ago they were dire but I have to be honest and say the R and L routes are now excellent. I travel in Northern Ireland quite a bit and even some of their A roads are poor but here the roads are spot on now. We used to have to swerve constantly around potholes and crawl through rough gravel sections but these days are long gone. Bad bends etc have been removed as well.
No, can't agree with you on the state of the roads.

Well, I live in the Midlands and the roads are woeful.

Subcomandante Marcos

handlemaster wrote: »

What date is the budget been announced?

Tuesday the 13th.

pmasterson95

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

I don't have kids at all, actually. And if myself and my partner decide to have kids in future we can well afford to provide our own childcare. That's not the point of my post.

The point of my post is that in Ireland, the cost of childcare is so high that it incentivises low earners to just not work and stay at home and mind the child themselves. It's stupidity of the highest order.

Stupidity for a parent to stay at home and raise their child? Yep. Nothing stupider.

Subcomandante Marcos

pmasterson95 wrote: »

Stupidity for a parent to stay at home and raise their child? Yep. Nothing stupider.

Stupidity that we live in a system that punishes low earners for wanting to work instead of being stay at home parents. The fact that for loan parents it's often better for them to take 4 years off work and stay on benefits instead of going back to work is ridiculous. We should be supporting them to return to work by investing in childcare instead of pricing them out of the market.

You seem to have missed the point of my posts entirely, this is the problem when you come in at the end of a conversation without know what's actually being discussed.

Galwayguy35

Aiyana Scruffy Whole-wheat wrote: »

Gee, they have never been so good as they are around here now. 10 to 15 years ago they were dire but I have to be honest and say the R and L routes are now excellent. I travel in Northern Ireland quite a bit and even some of their A roads are poor but here the roads are spot on now. We used to have to swerve constantly around potholes and crawl through rough gravel sections but these days are long gone. Bad bends etc have been removed as well.
No, can't agree with you on the state of the roads.

I'm guessing you don't live in the west, the secondary roads are a nightmare with some of the bad turns, and in winter a new pothole appears almost daily.

When the council eventually get around to it it's a bit of tar and a few stones and in a few days the same hole is as bad as ever.

I'm not exaggerating either.

lapua20grain

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Stupidity that we live in a system that punishes low earners for wanting to work instead of being stay at home parents. The fact that for loan parents it's often better for them to take 4 years off work and stay on benefits instead of going back to work is ridiculous. We should be supporting them to return to work by investing in childcare instead of pricing them out of the market.

You seem to have missed the point of my posts entirely, this is the problem when you come in at the end of a conversation without know what's actually being discussed.

my wife decided to stay at home to raise our son as she did not want some stranger in a creche raising our son she claims no benefits and i work is she stupid? nonsense comment

Subcomandante Marcos

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I'm guessing you don't live in the west, the secondary roads are a nightmare with some of the bad turns, and in winter a new pothole appears almost daily.

When the council eventually get around to it it's a bit of tar and a few stones and in a few days the same hole is as bad as ever.

I'm not exaggerating either.

I had to drive from Galway to Leenaun last December when there was a bit of a frost, that road from Maam Cross to Leenaun scared the bejaysus out of me.

Subcomandante Marcos

lapua20grain wrote: »

my wife decided to stay at home to raise our son as she did not want some stranger in a creche raising our son she claims no benefits and i work is she stupid? nonsense comment

Please don't cherry-pick stuff out of context. Thanks.

It's great that your wife had that choice. Lots of people are FORCED to stay at home because they can't afford childcare.

Don't Chute!

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Have you been using the national or secondary roads much these days?

The motorways are grand, outside of that it's a shambles.

Yes I have. I drive all over the country for work. You're bull****ting.

Subcomandante Marcos

black and amber wrote: »

Yes I have. I drive all over the country for work. You're bull****ting.

No I'm not. I live in the midlands, work in the east and spend a lot of time in the west. I regularly use secondary roads that are a shambles. The state of roads in rural areas is one of the most common complaints I hear about the lack of spending on infrastructure.

lapua20grain

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Please don't cherry-pick stuff out of context. Thanks.

It's great that your wife had that choice. Lots of people are FORCED to stay at home because they can't afford childcare.

we made the decision because we did not want a stranger rearing our child it would be better for us both to work but then our son would have part time parents and not brought up in a balanced home. we wouldn't have been able to afford childcare if we decided to go down that path but decided that a well adjusted balanced child meant more than money. Thanks

Subcomandante Marcos

lapua20grain wrote: »

we made the decision because we did not want a stranger rearing our child it would be better for us both to work but then our son would have part time parents and not brought up in a balanced home. we wouldn't have been able to afford childcare if we decided to go down that path but decided that a well adjusted balanced child meant more than money. Thanks

Thats nice. On Tuesdays I like to have an Ice-cream after my dinner.

lapua20grain

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Thats nice. On Tuesdays I like to have an Ice-cream after my dinner.

good for you

handlemaster

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I'm guessing you don't live in the west, the secondary roads are a nightmare with some of the bad turns, and in winter a new pothole appears almost daily.

When the council eventually get around to it it's a bit of tar and a few stones and in a few days the same hole is as bad as ever.

I'm not exaggerating either.

The issue is people want to build one off houses and expect the rest of the population to pay for their desire to live outside a town or city. But the cost of servicing such desires doesnt go down and the population isnt big enough to finance every boreen in the country have a quality road surface.

Subcomandante Marcos

lapua20grain wrote: »

good for you

Exactly, and has nothing to do with my posts in regards to childcare, much like your own posts.

lapua20grain

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Exactly, and has nothing to do with my posts in regards to childcare, much like your own posts.

good for you

ShoulderChip

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Thats nice. On Tuesdays I like to have an Ice-cream after my dinner.

I find a sorbet more cleansing of the pallet, fingers crossed the budget will be good...

guylikeme

Ridiculous moratorium rules.

MilesMorales1

There is a budget topic on AH. And its not even been announced fully yet.

Geuze

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Underfunded and over stretched Health system; check
Underfunded and over stretched Primary schools; check
Underfunded and over stretched Secondary schools; check
Underfunded and over stretched Third level system; check

Med consultants are well paid, and we pay high prices for drugs - so I disagree that the health system is underfunded.

We have 3,000+ primary schools, way more than other countries of similar pop - is it underfunded?

A typical teacher's pension is 700pw - is the education system underfunded?

Geuze

florawest wrote: »

well paid nurses, what? Certainly not the ones who qualified in the past three or four years, their pay is pathetic for the great job and pressure they are under, time to rethink their wages definitely

All new entrants to the PS are on 10% less, as well as maybe losing allowances.

Geuze

handlemaster wrote: »

What date is the budget been announced?

Tue 13-Oct.

_Kaiser_

Giveaway electioneering... take more people out of the tax net. Minor changes for those who'll be paying for it.

"New politics" indeed!

Qualitymark

Geuze wrote: »

All new entrants to the PS are on 10% less, as well as maybe losing allowances.

When I worked in the public service, after starting out in the private sector, I got my paycheck one day and said, "They've got something wrong - who do I ring - they've paid me too much?" My new colleagues laughed at me. "That's your annual increment." "My wha?" They explained that my pay automagically rose every month. I'd never heard its like.

Geuze

Increments are common in the private sector.

They may not be called increments, but they are fairly common.

For example, Lidl, Dunnes Stores operate like that.

Also note that much of PS is at top of scale, so no increments.

masti123

Is there any chance of a change to the disability allowance?

MilesMorales1

masti123 wrote: »

Is there any chance of a change to the disability allowance?

Doesn't seem like much, except for extra bonus at christmas.

My name is URL

Some parts of tomorrow's budget have been 'leaked'

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1012/734283-budget-2016/

xLisaBx

There has been rumours about college grant cuts? It's not in the leak though