The next Government

[bluesball]

They want to put a levy on those involved in building these houses which is fair enough as far as i can see but the local bricklayer,electrician carpenter etc wont be to happy.

 

[Stacky]

Nice try jimmy. The concrete levy is a big mistake for the government. Even aside from the Rural Alliance and Labour Party who'll support the SF bill, Willie O'Dea said that he thought the government (as though he wasn't a member of the government parties and making them the government) said it was a mistake, and it was something he "spotted"


There needs to be a levy on those businesses who made big profits from the building of the mica houses, including the banks, not on those hard pressed buying new houses or hoping to be able to build a small extension on their house.

The concrete levy as it stands is a mistake.

In 2020 & 2021 S.F. were all for a concrete levy.

 

[PROCNA2018]

You'd be forgiven for forgetting that the government are FG, FF and Greens.
And at least 2 of them will form the next government.

 

[Minstrel]

Are insurance companies getting a free ride here?

 

[SoundMan]

You'd be forgiven for forgetting that the government are FG, FF and Greens.
And at least 2 of them will form the next government.

I think more likely at least 1 of them will form part of the next government.

 

[bluesball]

Hopefully not the greens

 

[Hank Scorpio]

Anger as people with company cars hit with huge benefit-in-kind tax increase

Thousands of workers with company cars are to be hit with a massive hike in tax.

m.independent.ie

Rinse people some more ?

So instead of incentivising to purchase EV they think they can simply tax people into using them. Crazy.

So sky high insurance, fuel and motor tax, and add increased BIK . It's no wonder Sinn Fein are soaring in the polls.

 

[SoundMan]

Energy crisis Ireland: Homeowners paid €600m extra on home energy bills to subsidise energy for big business

A subsidy paid by householders to help big businesses with their energy costs was still being added to domestic bills up until last week, it has emerged.

www.independent.ie

Brilliant isn't it - homeowners had to subsidise the energy costs of big business.

"A subsidy paid by householders to help big businesses with their energy costs was still being added to domestic bills up until last week, it has emerged.

More than half a billion euro in extra charges has been levied on householders’ electricity bills since the Large Energy User Rebalancing Subvention was introduced more than a decade ago, the Irish Independent has discovered.

The subsidy has cost individual householders up to €480, since the support was introduced in the last recession in 2010, with at least €600m in extra charges added to domestic electricity bills in that time.

Neither the energy regulator nor the Department of the Environment, the department in charge of energy matters, could explain why the subvention has continued for so long.




"

 

[jimmym]

Listened back to Pat kenny interview with Eoin o Broin from yesterday, O Broin said the big profit making cement suppliers should contribute to the concrete levy, Pat put it to him why should reputable companies with 100% quality products have to pay for the sins of cowboys who sold defective products, Kenny is also against the taxpayer here contributing to remedial work for holiday homes owned by people north of the border,

 

[Stacky]

Listened back to Pat kenny interview with Eoin o Broin from yesterday, O Broin said the big profit making cement suppliers should contribute to the concrete levy, Pat put it to him why should reputable companies with 100% quality products have to pay for the sins of cowboys who sold defective products, Kenny is also against the taxpayer here contributing to remedial work for holiday homes owned by people north of the border,

Legally Moan O'Broin would not have a leg to stand on if he went down this route hence the Governments universal approach (I do not agree with this levy).

Why is everything with the left "big business" & "big profit"?

Should we just have tiny cement works and tiny steel mills etc on every street?

If business do not make a "profit" they are just not viable and they cannot pay their way and employ workers etc.

Their constant "othering" of things and people as if they are big bad enemies, is just an infantile ideology.