Budget

Fags €18.05 for 20 from midnight tonight

College fees reduced by €1000

how would there be with the worst minster of agriculture since the foundation of the state

But that get's said about near enough every one of them….

I see on agriland forgotten farmers have been allocated 5m...So 5000 farmers may get 1000 each.....

3rd choice agri minister what would you expect refrigerated bulk milk tank been classed as mobile was the last straw for me

€45 in €1000 extra if at13.5%

Maybe if they passed on the vat reduction to customers like they were meant to previously, instead of pocketing it, I'd have more sympathy.

You have to be joking, the hotels and pubs in demand are price gouging, all they did the last time it was 9 percent was put the extra money down their pocket

Usual Budget Day BS - a few euros scattered among the peasants ahead of election, while nothing that will actually make a difference to the cost of living here like reforming/properly regulating the electricity, construction,legal, insurance etc, sectors is ever done🙄

Had quoted the post about the forgotten farmers thing here but for some reason it didn't show

For utter **** sake

I'd like to shove it up their holes if that's what it amounts to

After all the hoopla and bolox....I totted up a massive potential loss due to the way things were set up here incl the previous retirement scheme terms/conditions

Have a massively dim view of the way this situation came about and now if this if true is effectively laughing in people's faces afaic

Fair enough hotels are gouging, but government have taken 40% of beds for refugees so whoever is left has no competition. They can jump into refugees in the morning if punters dry up.

Restaurants and pubs in the main are having a tough time in my opinion. N it's mainly down to extra regulations, duties ,taxes etc the government has lobbed on.

I wouldn't fancy running a gastro pub these days with 20-30 staff, fair play to those who do

supposedly 3500 of us that €1428 the same as about €1190 in 08 stick it where the sun don’t Brendan smith a ff td cost me 15000 installation aid in 08 when money was tight and sfp money as well

I’d say it cost more than €5 m to dream up this scheme because according to Charlie they have been working really hard to for years on finding a solution there is not many forgotten farmers why did he ever listen what will Macra and ifa do now

What did they give to social welfare?

Well thankfully we have michael Collins and his rural TDs in the independent party to vote for.

Ye have no excuse, the bigger parties have clearly no respect for you. The biggest surplus in irish history and not one new scheme to help rural Ireland

Is there any reason the Apple billions wasn't earmarked for a big ticket item for the country, be it offshore wind at a scale never seen before or the like.

Something like Ardnacrusha was in its time, something tangible that at least the idea sounded "bigger" than normal day to day spending.

Look what Microsoft did buying 3 mile Island in the US it might not be right but its shows what can be done in terms of securing the future and not betting so much on the interconnector like we are currently.

At least they've stepped up and formed a party. Too many independents previously promising things they could never do.

They are all cretins as far as I'm concerned and no need for any of them

The civil service its them who do most of it anyway

While hotels charge e3.50 for 200cc bottles of mineral I have no sympathy.

I heard on the radio that 9 million equates to €246 per student. They must be savage pouches. Whatever happened to telling students they aren't allowed them and confiscate them if found with one?

In a lot of places telling students what to do is becoming a thing of the past

It's the students telling you or their parents what to do

I think that person on the radio should have spent less time on their phone while in school. The CSO states the number of students in secondary school last year stood at 406,392, 9M/406,392=22.14. That's a grand total of €22.14 per student its hardly braking the bank.

It seems to be fashionable with ministers to be seen to have done something...anything

Regardless of what merit or value that something has...

A succession of ministers making a balls of things that seemingly weren't working half as badly then as they are after their influence...

Our political system rewards/incentivises the wrong things and thus leads to sub par outcomes imo and its frequently change for the sake of change....rather than change that benefits all "stakeholders"

I have no doubt the majority of public representatives work hard, in fact I think they probably work extremely hard.....but like a lot of jobs that doesn't mean they are being effective...they are probably too inundated with shite like so many other roles nowadays to actually do the job they should be doing or too busy ensuring they don't get shafted at election time to do the right thing etc…in fact I'd say in many cases doing the right thing probably leads to not being elected