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    ESRI: 2/3rds of people living in houses too big for their needs

    Yes alot of the surveys they do now are highly questionable and seem to be done to support government policies. The fiscal advisory Council produced a report critical of the recent government tax and spend budget, they got their fingers rapped by government. You won't find the esri doing that...
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    Return to office - but I want to remain fully remote

    That's just your personal perspective but it's not what companies in general think, because you personally want to WFH and it works for you personally you are trying to extrapolate that to be the general case, but that is a fallacy. So you would fire a new graduate based on the fact that they...
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    Return to office - but I want to remain fully remote

    That's the main reason why employers want workers back at least for 2 or 3 days a week so they can impart the skills to new workers the same way they learnt themselves. It's amazing people cannot see that, it's actually the tech companies and us multinationals that saw this immediately when WFH...
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    Return to office - but I want to remain fully remote

    Great points, also the essential workers during covid, the ones that manned the hospitals, stocked the supermarket shelves, collected the rubbish, grew the food, kept the us multinationals running were not working from home but were required to be in work every day. What's more the people...
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    Should we pay more tax to have a better society?

    What brought the Irish banks was the ineffectiveness of the Irish financial regulatory system. Remember john hurley the former governor of the central bank appointed not by financial qualifications but by seniority in the civil service, it was basically a plum job given to a senior civil...
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    Simon Harris 6/4 on favourite to be next Tea Shop

    Is that not Varadker you are talking about, John Lee of the mail wrote an article a year ago where he said that Varadker was tired and out of ideas and was losing sitting TDs left right and centre, young ministers and FG TDs a year ago were declaring that they would not run in election. In 2011...
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    Should we pay more tax to have a better society?

    What about the people that receive a pension without contributions. In 2020 a fifth of pension recipients were non contributory, should that also be fully funded by those who pay state pension contributions?
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    Should we pay more tax to have a better society?

    No because the Irish state has never been bigger, it grew from 67 billion euros in 2017 to 110 billion now. So the Irish government is pulling in more money than ever before both from people paying income tax, vat, and corporation tax. The problem is not money but the ineffectiveness of the...
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    Simon Harris 6/4 on favourite to be next Tea Shop

    thats not correct only british and irish people are legally allowed to travel across the border with minimal documents, the common travel area is primarily for british and irish people, EU citizens can freely travel to ireland across the border and people that have certain visas to work or...
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    Simon Harris 6/4 on favourite to be next Tea Shop

    On varadker legacy it will be basically that he inherited a very healthy economy that continued to boom driven by the US dominated FDI sector. However with that money he failed to deliver infrastructure or housing ,did not do the ground work regarding this because he did not like dealing with...
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    Simon Harris 6/4 on favourite to be next Tea Shop

    on the tonight show they were talking about leo varadker legacy, they said varadker expanded the state sector from 67 billion in 2017 to 110 billion today. So Varadker actually expanded the state more than ever before, of course he gets no credit for this from SF and the left wing parties. He...
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    Simon Harris 6/4 on favourite to be next Tea Shop

    Varadker and Coveney were gunning for Enda Kenny back in 2017 when it was a plum job and after all the hard yards Kenny put in to restoring everything, now FG is in a shambles after Varadker went for the woke and progressive agenda at the expense of everything else, now nobody wants the job and...
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    Burden of charity regulations too high?

    Just have to mention Angela Kerins and the rehab scandal to see why charity regulation is needed, it acted like the wild West for many years
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    Pint of Guinness index

    that was a comparison with 1994, this is a comparison with 2007. this would definitely show higher disposable income and less taxes in 2007 so your wages were buying more pints of guinness then. A big reason why we can no longer get builders today is because the tax rates on those incomes are...
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    Referendums on 8th of March

    I see roderic o gorman in more trouble over withholding information from electorate. Apparently he was informed by legal advice to insert word "strive" into ammendment in order to limit state financial liability. So that word was highly significant and was deliberate consideration, however in...
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    Pint of Guinness index

    If they also deducted off tax from the average wage between now and 17 years ago and calculated the after tax buying power for pints of guinness it would show an even bigger reduction in the buying power of pints of guinness. People on average wages are paying higher tax than they were 17 years...
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    “Wind turbine opportunity: good or bad?

    That's completely false, drive around the country and you will see signs up saying ballyhoo says no to wind turbines, protect your community, meeting in local hall Friday 8pm Seai are an organisation that promotes wind energy, they are only going to publish positive feedback and not the...
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    Have Currency fair gone bust??

    I transferred us dollars a month ago, I made a mistake but they sorted after a week or so. My mistake was to transfer the money first from the US account to currency fair. You actually have to create a transfer into currency fair first, when that transaction in is created, then you go to the...
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    Pint of Guinness index

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/the-average-weekly-salary-will-buy-32-fewer-pints-of-guinness-than-17-years-ago-new-data-reveals/a2012732626.html#:~:text=The%20average%20weekly%20salary%20will,Irish%20Independent Good article on the average wage buying 32 fewer pints of Guinness than it did...
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    “Wind turbine opportunity: good or bad?

    Yes you will be dealing with alot of local hostility obviously as they will be dealing with the consequences but only you will be benefitting financially from it. You are getting 15k now for an asset that just fell into your hands basically, if I was you I would be happy with that. As more and...
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