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My parents along with others sacrificed so their children would not have to go through the difficulties they did in this instance leaving an inheritance. The tax breaks as you reference were not there to avail of. The fair deal scheme is a prime example of how the system is wrong. You have two...

I too have and continue to work since junior cert. The idea of the €100k is to go towards a property purchase? I would not take a year off and enjoy myself. I personally have worked hard and sacrificed to better myself exactly as my parents did before me. We don't fund the CAT as the tax from...

A six figure handout is not a disincentive to work. A worker will always work and those who don't won't to work won't work. Why do you think we have generational welfare receiptents?. By and large children will have the same work ethic as their parents. Not all but most will. OK if you tax...

I think you may be missing my point we as children missed out on alot growing up in order for us to have a home.

People did "earn" their inheritance. My Father was a truck driver driving long hours, my Mother was a homemaker and then a factory worker again working long hours. We never had a foreign holiday, we were lucky to go camping in the summer. Because of all the sacrifices my parents made and by...

I would agree with you on the above. For me it's the principle of the action, you are giving them a good deal on the rent and rather than acknowledge this they try get another one over on you. I am a landlord myself and expect to receive fair treatment if I give it (which in the above scenario...

Hopefully we will now move more to the centre rather than our move to the left. It would appear the rise in the far right is having an impact on some of the existing parties. Time and actions will tell.

How do you plug the gap of lower income tax revenue? You increase property taxes it then becomes uneconomic to house yourself (why bother) so how or who houses you? The State? then are we not becoming more socialist? Access to education has never been easier to avail of, I grew up in the 80's...

You hit the nail on the head "incentivise" not "punish". Maybe people are held responsible for their actions and not everything is the States responsibility to provide. I will keep this specifically on housing my Dad's family (Dad is 85) grew up in council housing. First thing paid was the...

Typical Irish response lets punish those with tax rather than look at other alternatives. Why not just build smaller properties? Oh yet everybody wants a three bed semi and don't want to live in apartments. Maybe a cultural change is whats needed rather than lets take the easy route and tax...

Definitely, at what point do people take responsibility for themselves. Could not agree with this post more.

I completely agree our welfare system is a disincentive to work for some. I don't accept that there should be intergenerational welfare receiptents or intergenerational social housing. By the above logic it suggests welfare is too generous otherwise receiptents would better themselves than...

It goes deeper than the above. We did indeed build public housing but the State refuses to deal with anti social issues, non payment of rent etc. The is only a recent new (last 15 yrs or so). I grew up in an Ireland of the 70's & 80's were welfare, social housing etc where hard to come by and...

Fair question.

Basic economics also tells us as supply increase prices fall so someone who is housed irrespective of how they are housed is one less person looking for housing. At some point we will reach an equilibrium price where supply will meet demand. Again this is basic economics.

It's an opinion ultimately the poster makes the decision and deals with the fallout if any.

Landlord to tenant "I need to evict you as I need the property for ....." Tenant to landlord "I am not moving out etc ...." Tenant to rtb landlord made fraudulent declaration to rtb. Revenue start to query validity of tax returns (even if they are correct). Result headache to landlord.

This is a very salient point.

(Assuming this is a db pension). Technically the pension should not accessible to RTE as same is held by the trustees and not RTE. There is a risk that future payments by RTE will not be made to fund the pension liability going forward. Normally with dB pensions the risk of insufficient...

Not sure I agree with him. The new public sector pensions are the career average so not as favourable as they were in the past. Secondly if your wage increases don't keep pace with inflation then in real terms uour pension entitlement decrease. Thirdly you are not diversifying your...