Finance Minister Michael Noonan before the Oireachtas Budget Oversight Committee this morning
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan is appearing before the Oireachtas Budget Oversight Committee this morning ahead of Budget Day on October 11.
From the meeting…
No plans to equalise the price of petrol and diesel, says Michael Noonan, who also says #budget17 childcare measures won’t be tax based
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) September 20, 2016
Michael Noonan says he doesn’t think scrapping VAT on condoms would lower the rate of transmission of STIs. There you go now
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) September 20, 2016
"Until the iPhone was invented there was no demand for iPhones"
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) September 20, 2016
@ciaraobrien Michael Noonan trying to explain how making housing more affordable will stimulate demand
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) September 20, 2016
Noonan to phase out USC over five years (RTE)
He seriously looks like he should be wandering outside the gates of Alexandria.
He is only just out of Hospital due to a nasty Skin Condition …poor guy is looking more and more like emperor palatine.
Miserable git.
Absolute nonsense. There absolutely was a demand for iPhones but none of the manufacturers were getting it right. The closest near contender I can remember at the time was the Nokia N91 – gleefully touted as a portable computer – and in fairness it was reasonably good, for the time. Jobs’ genius was to see there was a market there that was underserved due to the walled-garden nature of the telecomms industry, and he bust that bad-boy right open. Similar pattern with iPod, iTunes and the music industry (and “not so” with watches). Market “disruption” at its finest.
I think the point is that there is no real correlation between the iPhone example and housing. But don’t let that get in the way of you lauding Lord Jobs.
Which was parabolically my point you blunt-eyed fool. And it’s the late lamented lord jobs to you
No it wasn’t. Jesus you’re pretentious.
Apple busting open walled gardens. LOL! Quite the opposite.
Apple invited none of those things, just great marketing made them seem cool. The first iPod was good till you bought any mp3 player fir 1/3 of the price and realised the i-everything was just good marketing.
There was no demand for penicillin until someone invented it either. Now look at us.
The millions that died from otherwise treatable conditions might have testified otherwise.
I can’t believe, after what Noonan did to blood transfusion survivors, that he’s still a TD.
this x100
With a bit of luck karma will have a word with him
King Scum.
That’s Sir King Scum to you.
or… Shirking Scum
Why on earth is there a VAT rate on condoms? Should be free!
There’s also a 23% VAT rate on ebooks, while printed books are zero-rated. A pure tax on knowledge.
Depends on the books :)
Or where you get them from
That’s an EU rule afaik. Always gets mentioned this time of year with the high-tech chislers in school these days
Seen as non-oral medicines when legalised probably (which have VAT due to a perception that cosmetics would make medical claims)
Was reduced to 13.5% not that long ago. That condoms are available free if you bother finding out where and that most unprotected sex happens when drunk (spending money) or by choice means he’s probably right; but that still isn’t an excuse for keeping the VAT
Does he think that “iPhone” is the general term for all smartphones?
Probably. 95% of his generation do.
70% of every generation use it as a term for smartphones.
Because they’re a shower of twits.
Only 92.3% are twits; the rest are of a different phenotype
And 83% of statistics are a pulled from thin air
And the remaining 17% from a bankers bum
Numberwang !
I win, so there.
Now.
The three of them look very very sad. Noonan a bid more sly sad. So much dirt in that head of his.
Tony, I often wonder, if these guys are committed Christians as so many of them trumpet that they are, are they not terrified in those days and months before they go to face judgment? BTW I am not including Mr. Noonan in that remark, as Satan could well be his Lord, for all I know. (in fact, it’s pretty likely).
If not Noonan, who are you referring to? And please be less oblique. Spit it out. Or maybe you were just dribbling in which case, as you were.
Is Noonan not dead yet?
We can bury him anyways.
Nobody will notice.
Sounds good to me, some old.