Our most successful Taoiseach, of that there can be no doubt. Would that we still had him at the helm instead of that Leo tool.
Saddling the country with more debt and the boyos cheering them on. Hyup ya baya.
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The more debt we have the more money we make. Genius
Whats in it for the ordinary Joe Soap? Do we get any of this money? Is it used to alleviate the problems of homelessness and people dying on the streets, used to make healthcare better, Improve infrastructure and roads. Is Ireland a better place to live?
Whilst economy vital signs like unemployment is going down (now ranked 14th out of 27 EU countries)
National debt as a proportion of GDP (16th out of 27) has gone down.
These are middle of the road rankings. And a lot of it is predicated on Trumpian policies and over reliance on American Multinationals. Facebook announcement last week of recognising revenues differently for tax purposes is disconcerting. I expect Luxembourg will be a place chosen by American mncās to sell their products from as they have one of the lowest output VAT rates in the EU. Corporation tax rates and pressure from Europe to harmonise CT rates will never go away.
All the while both working parents are faced with the Vista of higher childcare costs, mortgage arrears and rising household costs like insurance and energy costs with no accompanying increase in salary in many cases. Iām sure when said parents are driving home in bumper to bumper traffic and listening to the last word and hearing how Ireland Inc is an attractive place to invest in, it is a major source of comfort to these people.
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Eh Facebook donāt pay any tax here anyway mate. Thatās the problem
But but butā¦ weāre getting cheap money. Who cares if we squander it on public service pay increases with no productivity increases.
The boys heads are spinning, this is unrale!
Sure 90% of TFK either are or are married to civil / public servants.
Itās win win.
Youād be wrong then. Itās going to be fabulous for Ireland, and particularly those who work in professional services, which is even more fabulous.
Funny how you can reference Irelandās rankings on some issues but ignore our low homeless ranking and choose to go with the emotive nonsense.
Not the midlands
Your point about low levels of homelessness in Ireland was, as usual, misleading.
To call it a problem of homelessness is a bit misleading. Its all about housing supply. Any single person on the homeless list is entitled up to 1100 a month on the hap. For someone with access to their kids a few nights a week they can get 1500 and up on the same scheme. The government are happy to throw money at paying for accommodation for the homeless but donāt want to be their landlords. The long game here is for voluntary housing associations to provide all social housing accommodation. Itās why the government are so resistant to embark on large scale social housing builds themselves. O wants to build another slum like ballymun. What they are building or buying is being handed over to voluntary agencies to manage. Iād imagine part of the reason for this is that the local authorities struggle to collect even the miniscule rent a lot of tenants owe. Also for those on the homeless housing list landlords take one look at them and decide they canāt be trusted. Hard to blame them really. Another major drawback of the hap scheme is that if the tenant doesnāt pay the local authority their rent they stop hap payments to the landlord.
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What were those? Youāve yet to answer that but just lauded a post that criticized Ireland for a few mid table rankings as it fits your misery junkyism.
The issue with you is that everything is feelings based. I can agree with you on a subject like the public sector but you still write some awful garbage like āsack all managers in the HSEā.
More great news, thank you Michael.
When will people admit that our government has done a fantastic job? Weāve gone from bankruptcy to a second boom in less than ten years and you still have people moaning because someone from Dun Laoghaire is āhomelessā because they are refusing to accept a house thatās too far from their mother or because some poor addict is refusing help and is continuing to sleep rough.
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Ireland is the worst county in the world m8, didnāt you get the memo?
Sadly, never mate. Its not in their interests to. Its not in their nature to. The Fianna Failers will always ache for their overlords to return and rule them like a king.
Still, it sticks in their craws to see the wonderful job Enda has done in saving our country. It will never be forgotten.
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Ireland isnāt a county, mate.
Typical west Brit attitude.
what did the government do mate?
Malcontents MO
Everything that is good: pure luck, nothing to do with the government. Just down to the spirit of the Irish people 
Everything that is bad: all the governments fault, no blame on the individual
Of course it is true that politicians will do the exact same themselves in blaming previous political parties for problems, but there is a serious lack of perspective from some. Ironically theyāre often some of the biggest takers in society.
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