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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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So again 6bn again to be set aside into the rainy day fund.Is it not lashing out side
Probably not for all our TD’s but we are feeling the pinch
What I’d like to know is how much is actually in this fund at the moment and why is it not being spent ???
Or at the very least dipped into
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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That’s for sure and we aren’t looking for a dig out thankfully at the moment but you never know
So where is all the money gone from these so called rainy day funds |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"The national debt is over 200bn, so it's probably prudent to put some money aside, incase tax revenues fall in future years. "
Yes it is but 6bn per year and all the problems that this country has
It just makes us wonder why are we paying into a system that doesn’t give a shit about us |
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Personally I think any spare money should be spent on public transport infrastructure, bus and rail systems need to be subsidised to build them, and get people in the habit of using them.
I'd be slow to give the HSE more money for day to day use as they need to sort out the wastage they have first, where as health infrastructure spending is definitely needed.
As regards housing, it's more labour is needed to build more housecs which may reduce to cost of housing, the government buying house's in the current climate is making them more expensive |
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"Personally I think any spare money should be spent on public transport infrastructure, bus and rail systems need to be subsidised to build them, and get people in the habit of using them.
I'd be slow to give the HSE more money for day to day use as they need to sort out the wastage they have first, where as health infrastructure spending is definitely needed.
As regards housing, it's more labour is needed to build more housecs which may reduce to cost of housing, the government buying house's in the current climate is making them more expensive "
HSE are jobs for family in respect of admin not the hard working people that give their all
But that’s no good too anyone that ends up in hospital
More houses for people well will we ever have enough don’t think so
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It was used in 2020 and 2021 to help pay for the unexpected cost of covid19. The economy has performed a bit better than expected recently and so putting something away to deal with unforseen expenses would seem a good idea to me. With interest rates rising, borrowing isn't as cheap as it was, so having cash on hard when there is an unexpecred windfall would seem a good idea. I realise the optics of this would seem bad in the current rate of inflation.. but it's sound financial management and the government has been criticised (in the past) for not putting money away when they have it to help pay for when the economy is in a downturn. |
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over a year ago
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It makes sense obviously too put money away for a rainy day that’s not what We are saying
There’s lots of people that we know are able to afford holidays,changing cars,our last electric bill was six hundred euro,that’s without home heating
But if one of our kids need too attend a hospital it’s a hundred euro,if it’s not paid then the letters come
We have been paying tax all our lives in this country and we honestly think that giving a home two hundred euro off their ESB is ridiculous
And the original post was that we were asking how much is in this fund,this is 2023 after all |
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