Wages will be cut again in the next budget, the Government and Brian Cowen himself cant even guarantee against this not happening, because it will happen. We will need to find €3bn in cuts and another €3bn next year and then €2bn the following year, where will those cuts come from?
Our public finances can’t really be that bad, our green government just announced that they will give a grant of € 5,000 to each of the expected 10,000 electronic cars that will be sold here this year, that’s a whopping € 50,000,000.
I assume that like the car scrappage scheme the VAT and VRT kickbacks to the Exchequer will offset the grant. Not that I agree with either scheme btw.
No VRT on electric cars either. VAT wont be making up for it either because the 10,000 cars would otherwise be petrol engines, nobody really is going to buy an electronic card in additon to a petrol engine. So in fact the loss of VRT is to be added to this amount.
I believe this latest agreement means nothing.
All it will do, if it's agreed, is stop strikes for a few months until the next budget.
There's nothing in it for the workers. They're going to get more pay cuts regardless.
I agree, but I wonder would we ever find agreement on what services we want? The State has a long history of poor delivery of services, and still the Irish people seem to want the government to do everything for them, regardless of how poorly it does this job.What is required is a discussion about what services we want our state to deliver, a flexible way of sourcing such services and a fair deal for such sources.
How could it be better spent?I stand corrected, just read the PR. Certainly the potential €50m could be spent better elsewhere (or perhaps not borrowed as is more likely the case).
Where are the public sector workers 'with no meaningful work to do'?What I cant understand is why compulsory redundancies are not being advocated by some sections of the PS. A lot of the PS workers I know are complaining about having to take pay cuts to keep some workers with no meaningful work to do, in jobs - would rather that PS workers with no work are laid off.
Where are the public sector workers 'with no meaningful work to do'?
Fair enough no more pay cuts but that doesn't mean there won't be another pension levy, higher taxes or other ways of cutting the 3bn from the public pay.
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