53,000 new jobs will be created by year’s end says Michael Noonan. The JobBridge will need to be strengthened! #Budget2016
— Irish Sun (@IrishSunOnline) October 13, 2015
Noonan says state will recoup bailout money in AIB & PTSB. (He be waiting a while.) #Budget2016 — David Murphy (@davidmurphyRTE) October 13, 2015
Noonan just slapped another 50c on my smokes. Cross the border once a week so #budget16
— Toddimus Maximus (@UbuntuLad) October 13, 2015
Noonan claims there will be “no more boom and bust.” Factually incorrect, systemic nonsense and political bullshit #budget16 #Budget2016
— Mark Malone (@soundmigration) October 13, 2015
Noonan: I will increase the entry threshold from €12,012 to €13,000 – removing 42,500 workers from the USC net #budget16
— Sunday Business Post (@sundaybusiness) October 13, 2015
Noonan: Home carers tax credit to be increased #budget16
— Small Business Show (@focuSMEireland) October 13, 2015
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Brendan Howlin, Minister for Public Expenditure and Michael Noonan (left) at government buildings this afternoon.
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50 cents extra on a pack of smokes that costs €10.
Great, I guess I’ll just buy them from the organised criminal gangs who sell them on Moore Street for €5.
+1
You could also not you know.
Ordinary dacent criminals. Anyone for the last o’ de heroin?
so they give you a few bob now, and already they have a raft of measures lined up to nick it back off you next year.
It’s the FF way and got Bertie re-elected twice.
Howl’ at the Noon’, wha?
That’s good.
Howlin is such a non event.
50c on smokes. Glad I gave up in 2005. All that money saved.
Eh… all…. that… money… emmm.
Quite – my take-home is less now then it was 15 years ago when I worked a 4-day week.
Wonder what the story is with rollies, are they seeing a similar increase ?
Stretch out the tobacco by adding more of that OG Kush…
it’s always cheaper to book a cheap flight to spain and bring home a few kilos than pay for tobacco here.
I’ve just calculated that I have €11 of my own money extra every week. Enough to buy one packet of smokes, and about 5 minutes parking on Merrion Square?
It’s a poor return on your labour, I’ll give you that.
Stop buying smokes and get yourself two pints.
invest in an arms company and watch that 11 bucks soar in value.
Yes – then you could have a pint in each arms… the myth lives…
Howlin the patsy, doing his little cap doffing jig. Like a little court jester.
Noonan must think he’s a fool.
Think, surely you mean…he knows!
@Neilo. Maybe I would have been better off, never going to college getting a reasonable job, and instead I could be one of the 40,000 who now pay nothing in income tax (the political clients) and get all the benefits?
The Budget, it’s all about buying votes….with taxes from the middle class.
PLUS ÇA CHANGE, PLUS C’EST LA MÊME CHOSE.
It’s supposed to be about keeping the country afloat, the lights on and the books balanced….but this Budget just stinks of election-buying.
Those type of stunts might have worked in the past when the level of education was lower, but the electorate are more sophisticated than the politicians ever give them credit for. In truth we all know that the smart and ambitious do not go into politics, so is it any surprise we have the usual conservative duffers and trust-fund socialists inhabiting the oireachtas?
“The past when the level of education was lower.”
You mean two elections ago?
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