Ireland politics (Part 2)

[Massey]

https://twitter.com/Toibin1/status/1839286359715885338?t=WuG7kl_ntPkuvVGRId8eRQ&s=19

[Ralphie]

FFG has the economy purring

IRELAND
IRELAND
IRELAND

[iron_mike]

@Ralphie

FFG has the economy purring

IRELAND
IRELAND
IRELAND

Does that include the €13 billion from apple?

[TheUlteriorMotive]

25 billion surplus. Wow.

[iron_mike]

@TheUlteriorMotive

25 billion surplus. Wow.

That’s a lot of rochers

[Tim_Riggins]

Ireland 2040 projected to cost €165bn in total.

That’s a fair chunk of the cost to chuck at it in one year…

[gilgamboa]

Ya

[artfoley]

@iron_mike

@TheUlteriorMotive

25 billion surplus. Wow.

That’s a lot of rochers

And in the budget they’re really going to spoil us

[glasagusban]

It’s absolutely remarkable the extent of the surpluses we are running and simultaneously the extent to which the government has failed to equip the state with the basic capacity and infrastructure to sustain the people in it.

[Arthur]

It seems unbelievably weird to me. Why are they giving everyone 1k each in a giveaway budget instead of trying to solve basics like housing and special needs education and people sleeping in tents.

[Biff_Egan]

Paddy wants that fiver in his pocket

[Bod95]

Lads we don’t realise how good we have it, the motorways in Spain last week are in dire need of repair, and outside the resort we were in heading to and from the airport a lot of houses in dire need of repair. Housing, health, cost of living issues are a global issue, FFG in the main have served us well no point risking everything by changing, steady as she goes.

[Bod95]

No that’s just on the current Account

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Bod95

Lads we don’t realise how good we have it, the motorways in Spain last week are in dire need of repair, and outside the resort we were in heading to and from the airport a lot of houses in dire need of repair. Housing, health, cost of living issues are a global issue, FFG in the main have served us well no point risking everything by changing, steady as she goes.

Well said. We are largely blessed in this country.

[iron_mike]

@Bod95

Lads we don’t realise how good we have it, the motorways in Spain last week are in dire need of repair, and outside the resort we were in heading to and from the airport a lot of houses in dire need of repair. Housing, health, cost of living issues are a global issue, FFG in the main have served us well no point risking everything by changing, steady as she goes.

Or to put it another way, the Brits are cutting pensioners fuel allowance in an effort to plug a 22 billion “black hole “ What they wouldn’t give for that kind of surplus

[TheUlteriorMotive]

@Arthur

Why are they giving everyone 1k each

They aren’t giving us anything. It’s our money that we’ve worked to earn.

What the health system in Ireland lacks is not money.

[Cheasty]

@Bod95

Lads we don’t realise how good we have it, the motorways in Spain last week are in dire need of repair

I’d happily give them our roads in exchange for their high speed rail system.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Climate change is hitting Spain hard.

[Arthur]

The special needs health and especially education system definitely lacks money.

[tallback]

@glasagusban

It’s absolutely remarkable the extent of the surpluses we are running and simultaneously the extent to which the government has failed to equip the state with the basic capacity and infrastructure to sustain the people in it.

I genuinely think there’s a massive civil service failure here too. The gov would love to and are able to deploy massive financial resources but know that there isn’t the capacity, capability or know-how for the civil service to turn that into tangible output .

Civil service seems to be excellent at writing policy docs etc but when it comes to actually boots on the ground infrastructure build it’s proven to be deficient at turning words into results.