Just spent €10 on monthly period supplies. That’s not including solpadein for pain relief 🙃Seriously why can’t we get a period allowance, we get paid less and have to spend a fortune every month for something out of our control 😐
— Yaz (Yasmin) (@GlitterMamaBlog) February 19, 2019
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The allowance could be called THE RAG TAG
Don’t give a fiddlers what they call it, I’d just love it if they brought it in.
I get paid an allowance to cover this, along with dozens of other small and large expenditures.
They call it ‘a salary’.
How much do you spend on period products? Extra cleaning to remove bloodstains from underwear, pants and bed linen? Pain relief?
Everyone has all sorts of miscellaneous expenses that vary from person; by all means have a place where poor people can get sanitary products for free if necessary, but the the idea of setting up a special allowance for every time someone spends X amount of euro on Y is stupid.
How would we be able to ascertain when a woman became menopausal and was no longer entitled to this payment – would people over 40 need to go to the dept of social welfare and display their stained drawers to some functionary to keep receiving the payment?
So are you Perimenopauseal rob or menopauseal currently?
for anyone reading .. I am NOT this complete bell-end Rob_G .. honestly, a few people have said they thought it’s me. it is not. and im gutted people would think i could possibly go on like this fool.
They call yours a mangina.
I got given eco-friendly reusable pads as an actual birthday present once. Good job I saw what they were before revealing them to an entire restaurant. Never bothered using them
“…we get paid less”
Think this is GlitterMamaBlog’s rant here, not the cycle of life. Sometimes you have to pare back the nonsense to find the wound.
Are they still taxed as a luxury product
No. They are zero-rated.
https://www.revenue.ie/en/vat/vat-rates/search-vat-rates/S/sanitary-towels-other-zerorated-goods-and-services-.aspx
Were they ever taxed?
I tried looking it up and the best I could find was a reference to them having a zero-rated status 20+ years ago – no suggestion that it was new at the time.
There were campaigns in a few EU countries to have them VAT-exempt; I don’t know if they were in Ireland as well.
It’s been a long-running issue in the UK.
I think it just spilled over from there with people presuming they’re taxed here.
That link I have above to revenue mentions the “Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010 (VATCA 2010) Ref [Section: 46(1)(b) Schedule: 2 Paragraph: 13(3)]”.
It’s possible it was reduced to 0% in 2010?
@cian:
That would just be the most recent time it was included in legislation, doesn’t mean that the rate changed. I went looking into this before and found something similar from the early 90’s. I couldn’t find any evidence of when/if it became “zero-rated”, or even that VAT was ever applied (but for all I know it could have at some point).
As men in general have a recommended higher calorie intake than women, are we allowed a food allowance based on such?
And €10? Have you tried getting your supplies from discounters?
/awaits incoming wrath
The gender pay gap would imply that potentially we do, and if that’s not what its for then we should probably give it back.
Spud; in a forum of insanely dumb posts .. well done, yours is the dumbest. that really takes some doing particularly on broadsheet. why not celebrate by having a vasectomy?
As men in general have a recommended higher calorie intake than women, can we get a food allowance based on such?
And €10? Have you tried getting your supplies from discounters?
/awaits incoming wrath
Now that’s a header
Pencil it in there Roptile
Cash flow in the red?
Contra flow
Even
€10 ain’t exactly a fortune.
Period poverty is the new go-to for the ‘socially aware’. So many articles in the media over the past few months.
It is when you don’t have it to spare for food and fuel.
Really. Are we living in the 1900’s?
You can pick up 2 boxes in Lidl for around 2 euro.
= 0.66 cent a day.
Anyone, no matter what their employment status, can afford that. Can they manage their income spread across their basic needs and requirements? Maybe not. I think either the scratcher or MABs give free money management advice to those needing to make a little go a long way. Recommend this woman gives them a buzz.
= 0.33 cent a day
So, cheap to fund as a medical necessity, then!
For feck’s sake:
it is either €0.66[1] per day OR 66 cent per day NOT 0.66 cent a day
[1] or €0.33 OR 33 cent per day;
If its €0.66 a day that’s €240 a year i.e. enough for a weekend getaway. Small costs add up quick!
Ok sorry for the miscalculation everyone. I lost a zero along the way (clearly it’s important).
€2 a month = €24 per year.
= €0.066 per day
Lidl own brand pads leak like hell, they are rubbish. The branded names are the ones that actually work.
Jayz. You must have some torrents, hah?
I find Boots ones pretty good and verra cheap.
In me hoop it is. It’s an essential product that people often have to choose between it and food
@ Cian
Calm down. That big vein on your forehead is going to pop.
DONT TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!!!!!
It’s called an expense. You know, like toothpaste.
Presuming you are employed it’s what your wages are for.
If not, you’re already getting a handout from the taxpayer.
You’ve never had a period, have you? What would you do if you had anal leakage, coupled with cramps, for 3 to 7 days a month? You certainly wouldn’t be comparing it to brushing your teeth.
REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE
Stop polluting our planet with millions of tons of sanitary products. Surely saving the environment gives you bonus points?
I hope you remember your words next time you invite a lady to sit on your lap and she obligingly leaves a puddle of blood and uterine lining behind as a present
Arragh that’s happened before, all normal body function and cleaned up in seconds. These things on the other hand are made from plastic based material. 500-800 years to breakdown…and this one want’s them as a free for all.
Cloth menstrual pads…REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE
Thanks for the top notch advice.
I’ve always been a fan of complete strangers telling me how best to deal with something I’ve been dealing with every month since I was twelve. I’m sure your superior judgement far outweighs the twenty odd years of my own experience.
Millie I don’t believe I’ve said anything incorrect here. I could be wrong but you seem to be taking issue with the fact I am expressing my opinion as a male on this subject and that I’m somehow talking down to you. That was not my intention. The lack of interaction on my environmental points is actually quite telling. Convenience trumps environment.
Ewww Millie, thanks. Uterine Lining will now top the worst words ever, surpassing moist by a mile. I’ll have to sing about it to get rid of it
♫ And it’s high ho uterine lining, anywhere you go now baby
I see your sun is shining….♫
Nope just made it worst :(
Sorry. But I just am so passionate about periods.
A WASTE OF GOOD UTERINE LINING.
“What would you do if you had anal leakage, coupled with cramps, for 3 to 7 days a month? ”
SOQ, can you answer this one please?
Go back to basics with a cloth menstrual pad. You won’t have to buy any supplies, just wash and reuse. Save the environment too. A couple of problems solved there….next please. :-)
Shur get boxed, save you a fortune in pads!
Spoken with the smug arrogance of a man
Yeah…well…eh…you’re sexist.
*runs off crying*
What is your dry cleaning bill for suits?
Why, do you use yours for your period?
Probably for the period he is in work?
In other European countries the employer pays for the healthcare of the employee, as it is in their best interests to have a healthy workforce. You are given a health card which can be used at the doctors for checkups, and at specialists clinics for everything else, no money changes hands! Unless you get certain procedures done in the dentists that are not fully covered. It takes such a weight off of your shoulders and makes extra expenses like period products for women a minor purchase. Ireland needs to have a system like this, or the NHS. Big business/employers gets away with murder in Ireland compared to the EU continent.
Em, not entirely Junkface. The employer pays 2 thirds and the employee 1 third. The GP costs on average 23€ per visit, if which 14€ is paid by public health insurance. The balance comes out if your pocket or us covered by your private health insurance.
In France, anyway.
And apologies for the typos.
Scotland became the first country in the world to provide free sanitary products to students. Costs £5m a year. We’d probably do it for €4m a year here. And maybe another €500,000 to stock sanitary products in food banks.
https://blogs.gov.scot/fairer-scotland/2019/01/04/access-to-free-sanitary-products/
We could pay for it if Josepha Madigan reversed the decision to give RTE an extra €4m a year of our money to pay for orchestras that were supposed to be funded by the TV licence.
“We’d probably do it for €4m a year here…”
Or in the real corruption/ineptitude filled Ireland, we’d probably end up doing it for €12m a year, plus an inquiry, a tribunal, a high profile resignation and a sacking (followed by swift re-hirings to other well-paid jobs for all involved).
She is really selling i there at a mighty 33 cents a day! Hair growth also out of our control, free barber/haircuts? Toes nails, etc… think we done here, next!
once i saw this post .. i knew i’d come in to the comments sections, to see all the worst regulars, spouting their worst opinions.
Thank you, Dr Fart, for trying to raise the level of discourse
But spare a thought too for all those boyfriends who, without financial compensation, try their best to stoically remain calm during the final week of each month – despite the stress of being subjected to all the mood swings and irrational emotional outbursts! :p
True. We spend more than 33c
bribingbuying chocolate.Himself knows the value of a large bag of Maltesers on a cold whingy night.
The sap.
So you say. You’ve not seen me get my rag on.