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My take on Budget 2020
Budgets are strange creatures. This is my 11th or 12th one. Listening to the Minister of the day, as we did ye...
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A “caring budget” or a PR budget?
As the dust settles on Budget 2019, I’m posting snippets of my post budget speech made the day after it...
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Budget 2019 does nothing to address the numbers becoming homeless
The figures – €30 million here, €1.4 billion there, €110 million there – all sound very impressive...
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Make a REAL difference and prioritise those with a mental or physical disability in Budget 2018
Instead of spreading resources too thinly, I believe budgets should make a real difference for those suffering...
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My Budget 2017 Speech
Is cinnte go bhfuil athrú tagtha ar chúrsaí a bhaineann leis an mbuiséad. Tá atmaisféar difriúil againn inniu....
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Government contradicting the Central Statistics Office
I was horrified to hear a Minister state in a budget speech that the Government had protected young people, ol...
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The Honest Truth About Budget 2016
Beyond the headlines we have gone through and analysed Budget 2016 to give you the Good, the Bad and the Ugly...
Budgets are strange creatures. This is my 11th or 12th one. Listening to the Minister of the day, as we did yesterday, one hears of “X” billion going here and “Y” bil... Read more
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A “caring budget” or a PR budget?
As the dust settles on Budget 2019, I’m posting snippets of my post budget speech made the day after it was announced to argue that there is no doubt but that inequality is growing and... Read more
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The figures – €30 million here, €1.4 billion there, €110 million there – all sound very impressive but we need the breakdown and we need the answers to questions such as “W... Read more
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Instead of spreading resources too thinly, I believe budgets should make a real difference for those suffering the most inequality. Currently many of these are the people with a disability,... Read more
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My Budget 2017 Speech
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I was horrified to hear a Minister state in a budget speech that the Government had protected young people, old people and the vulnerable because the statistics from the Central Statistics O... Read more
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The Honest Truth About Budget 2016
Beyond the headlines we have gone through and analysed Budget 2016 to give you the Good, the Bad and the Ugly details contained and what this means to you and what you care about. If you are... Read more
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I have been making my submissions for Budget 2016 to the Ministers over the past few weeks; Each time I’ve made the point that we should never have been made pay for the greed of those... Read more
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Unjust taxes such as the USC are contributing to the growing levels of inequality in Ireland. The Irish people have paid enough for the greed and reckless gambles of others and the USC is th... Read more
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Austerity is far from over. Statistics and percentages may signal growth; but that is not what I see on the ground in Dublin Central and throughout Ireland, as usual it is the less well off... Read more
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