The unprecedented turnaround in the
fortunes of the South is an enormous achievement for the Irish Labour Party and their coalition partners. Since Europe entered recession in 2007,
the South is the only region where the gap in wealth has been reduced (ESRI
Report, 2014).
In the November budget, the top rate of
Social Solidarity Charge was increased to 8% for those on high salaries.
One per cent of the taxable population pays
20% of the total income tax gathered in by the Southern government and the top twenty per cent pay 80% of this tax.
Outrageous salaries in the public service
and health service have been reduced directly by agreement. Two hundred medical
posts have been advertised for new entrants after their incumbents refused to
accept lower salaries.
Unemployment is falling.
A lot done, more to do!
Social and well-maintained public housing and the protection of the
physically ill and those fleeing war and police and military repression and violence,not bogus self-styled asylum-seekers,must be the priority for the Irish Labour Party in the next two years. The first steps have been taken towards universal health provision.
These are exciting times as the old
Russian proverb states. However,that expression is meant as a curse. For many,welfare payments and
discretionary health insurance have been reduced.
The excitement-despite contrary
indications and sniping and red herrings from small groups of isolated individuals- is coming to an end. Uneducated
hooligans and political parasites and dilettantes and degenerates such as Boyd- Barrett, Mc Cann and O'Brien have made their loud-mouthed appearance to a media fanfare. At the present
time their extremism and waywardness is being highlighted on radio and TV
and in the press.
The easily gulled have no need to get on the DART and go out and view Richard's
The easily gulled have no need to get on the DART and go out and view Richard's
£16m. house on the Dun Laoghaire seafront. He is someone who has never had a real occupation of the kind of those who create with hand or mind....he shàres this mountàin of old bricks and creaky stairs with his husbànd.
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The three just demands of Irish labour:
1. Properly and efficiently maintained public housing and an Act of the Oireachtas guaranteeing the right to immediate housing provision in an emergency.
2.Universal health provision free at the point of delivery to all.
3.Collaborative collective bargaining.
Bon chance!
27/1/2020.
Shouldn't questions be asked in the Dail Dole Office about the origin of left-wing spouters' wealth when they have never had a meaningful job or worked a day in their entire lives.
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13.6.2021
Just as England or Scotland is no place for a sentient Irishman,much less an Irish woman or Irish nurse,nor should Ireland be a long-term place of residence for the African, Asian,German or other foreigner who sticks out like a sore thumb unless he is a visitor on a scholarship or a refugee, religious or someone fleeing war, persecution and imminent threat of violence or slavery or concocted allegations before a higher court in their native jurisdiction.
English and Americans only regardless of their colour,creed or class i.e. those who can claim some ancestral connection to our Irish Home and its fighting men...
There can,however,be NO question of CITIZENSHIP rights.
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2.9.2021
How long should migrants fleeing violence and police-political terror and fascism and medical hooliganism be allowed to stay, therefore?
More or less indefinitely...the right of asylum is ignored at one's peril.
Joseph Paul Mc Carroll