tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464668402831298194.post3669624007299544716..comments2023-10-26T12:19:08.652+01:00Comments on Cllr Joe Ryan's Blog: Celebration Time? Come on!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13337418092426100439noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464668402831298194.post-71408133162807108712012-03-13T09:08:35.282+00:002012-03-13T09:08:35.282+00:00Joe,
In the last budget, pensioners had their fu...Joe, <br /><br />In the last budget, pensioners had their fuel allowance cut by six weeks per year, a net weekly income loss of about €2 averaged over a full year.<br /><br />They also had their free electricity units reduced from 400 to 300 per month. The telephone allowance was cut by €3.69 per month.<br /><br />Those on rent allowance lost at least €6 per week.<br /><br />If you add up these cuts it comes to almost €10 per week in lost income for many elderly or disabled people. Some on carer's allowance lost more.<br /><br />The government said nobody had their basic income cut in the last budget. What they should have said was <i>"Nobody who we regard as important had their basic income cut."</i><br /><br />The jobless figures are being kept at a <i>mere</i> 400,000 by mass emigration. 50,000 people left the country last year and there seems to be no respite in this trend.Roryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828631921514226292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464668402831298194.post-55971542708091713582012-03-12T23:57:54.901+00:002012-03-12T23:57:54.901+00:00In the intersts of accuarcy it has to be pointed o...In the intersts of accuarcy it has to be pointed out that the reduction in child benefit only applied to the 3rd and subsequest children. The winter fuel allowance is paid to elderly for 26weeks of the year, prviously winter apparently lasted 32 out of 52 weeks of the year!<br />What exactly do you mean by pensioners bieng cut? While there are still deep funadmental problems in the state, Unemplooyment has not reached the figures predicted, announced job losses have declined while there has been good news for Dundalk, Cork, Waterford and maybe we may hear something positive about Wexford soon? Unemployment is now below the June 2010 figure at a time when traditional destinations for Irish emigrants UK & US are in recession. employment is increasingAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13337418092426100439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464668402831298194.post-59747520541923723682012-03-10T16:22:37.206+00:002012-03-10T16:22:37.206+00:00Fair post Joe credit where credit is due,
The las...Fair post Joe credit where credit is due,<br /><br />The last budget there were cuts in children's allowance, fuel allowance, rent allowance and benefits to old age pensioners and the disabled in the form of things like electricity units. Yet the government claimed that nobody's basic income was cut. It seems that the poor had their incomes cut in a big way for the fourth straight budget.<br /><br />There is mass emigration keeping the jobless numbers steady at 400,000 odd.<br /><br />Where my people come from there is nothing to celebrate. This government must try harder.Roryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828631921514226292noreply@blogger.com