The residents around Páirc Uí Chaoimh are a tad unwelcoming to bright lights. One bright light, Ed Sheeran may bring additional lights in May, or may not. (sorry, I got a tad carried away there)
Bull Duggan
Contact CEA Architects if you want to live in a house that looks like a bus station.
Martco
this latest design trend to build your house to look like some sort of minaturised corporate HQ would seem to be rife
edalicious
Floor to ceiling windows throughout a house are just a terrible idea. I want to be able to walk around in the nip at least *some* of the time.
some old queen
You know what they say about people who live in glass houses? They should sue their architects.
Besides, wouldn’t all that much glass not affect the BER rating?
Nigel
There’s the potential for a lot of passive solar gain, and with triple glazing and proper fitting you wouldn’t actually lose much, if any, heat through them. Done properly it could be extremely efficient, very low BER.
Cian
Hmm? I don’t think so.
After a quick Google (looking at first results) the best U-value for glass I can see is:
4mm clear/16mm Argon/4mm SC/16mm Argon/4mmSC Triple glazed: U=0.6
The worst block (uninsulated) was 6inch 125 pcf Sand & Gravel came in at U=0.49 (best insulated block came in at U=0.08).
UK Building Regulations require total wall has a U-value of no worse than 0.3… so a house with walls of glass will fail.
€13772. The cost per successful placement. Which does not take into account the €10,000 that employers get gifted for taking on someone on unemployment assistance for over two years. And of course we get the ‘sensitive commercial information line’ when questions are asked. And. Varadkars paws all over it at the beginning.
Taunton
It looks like your daily hate bulletin is having no effect of Leo. He is going from strength to strength.
Increasing_Displacement
Shows absolute lack of intelligence re voters
Only thing he said in office worth listening to is that the pro life pro choice labeling is nonsense
Rob_G
If only the dumb plebs could be as clever as you…
GiggidyGoo
Ah, Taunton. The believer of a survey 1000 people out of almost 5,000,000. I’m sure that Leo is having a right laugh at lads like you peddling de party line. Sure the more of those surveys that gives him a false sense of security may bring him to expedite an election. Put that in your next report to the €5 million teetotum machine.
Taunton
Ahhh Giggidy, believes and regurgitates lefty nonsense in an echo chamber of lefty nonsense. Too afraid to publicly nail his colours to any political mask lest it be used against him. In fact against is all he is, not for anything, just against all things Leo.
How incomplete you are, it must leave you unsatisfied, and feeling kinda pointless.
Cian
A survey of 1000 people is more accurate than a survey of one person.
A properly done survey, with a representative sample of the population, that are truthful will result in an accurate survey.
#1 & #2 are within the control of the polling companies.
#3 is the difficult one. In the 2016 general election people wouldn’t tell the pollster they were going to vote for FF – but did.
Cian
Do you have other ideas for assisting people get jobs?
One that is cheaper, more effective, and scalable than Jobbridge? (that isn’t already being done)
Increasing_Displacement
It’s called education
Taunton
Did these individuals not go to school?
Zoella
Springboard.
GiggidyGoo
Define scalable in this context.
Cian
scalable: as in it needs to work across the whole country, and assist people into 1,000s of jobs. i.e. not niche. So training people to be come, say, race-car drivers may help some get jobs – but it’s not scalable since there isn’t demand for that specific skill.
“proper system of apprenticeships” on the other hand, is a good example of a scalable idea to help people get jobs.
GiggidyGoo
A proper system of apprenticeships would be helpful for example, given that Trump is taking away the attractiveness of Ireland to call center and data input operators which are manned by imported staff a lot of the time.
Rob_G
“Do you have other ideas for assisting people get jobs?
One that is cheaper, more effective, and scalable than Jobbridge?”
Progressively reducing jobseekers allowance/benefit; for every three months a person is in receipt of a payment, the payment goes down. Reducing employers’ PRSI, reducing or abolishing altogether the minimum wage.
– this would definitely work in terms of job activation; I don’t know if Broadsheet readers would be on-board with the idea, however…
Cian
I could live with the reduction of jobseekers based on a mix of time and lack of engagement/training. But if someone is actually looking to work, and is willing to train/retrain to increase their chances I’d support them.
Reducing PRSI is just a grant to the employer – is it any different to JobBridge?
Reducing minimum wage isn’t a runner – unless there are other protections put in place.
Otis Blue
In fairness to Varadkar, and while noting the likelihood that he’s a fan of the scheme, he wasn’t responsible for Jobpath. It was introduced under Joan Burton’s tenure as Minister for DSP. It was also a requirement of the troika bailout and slavishly followed the UK model of privatised – and flawed – labour market activation.
There was an undoubted need for labour market activation and there’s little wrong with the principle but the practice is where the problem lies.
An obvious question arises as to why the existing labour market supports in the DSP, Intreo, SOLAS, ETBs, local partnership companies, etc were not developed and resources for this purpose.
The residents around Páirc Uí Chaoimh are a tad unwelcoming to bright lights. One bright light, Ed Sheeran may bring additional lights in May, or may not. (sorry, I got a tad carried away there)
Contact CEA Architects if you want to live in a house that looks like a bus station.
this latest design trend to build your house to look like some sort of minaturised corporate HQ would seem to be rife
Floor to ceiling windows throughout a house are just a terrible idea. I want to be able to walk around in the nip at least *some* of the time.
You know what they say about people who live in glass houses? They should sue their architects.
Besides, wouldn’t all that much glass not affect the BER rating?
There’s the potential for a lot of passive solar gain, and with triple glazing and proper fitting you wouldn’t actually lose much, if any, heat through them. Done properly it could be extremely efficient, very low BER.
Hmm? I don’t think so.
After a quick Google (looking at first results) the best U-value for glass I can see is:
4mm clear/16mm Argon/4mm SC/16mm Argon/4mmSC Triple glazed: U=0.6
The worst block (uninsulated) was 6inch 125 pcf Sand & Gravel came in at U=0.49 (best insulated block came in at U=0.08).
UK Building Regulations require total wall has a U-value of no worse than 0.3… so a house with walls of glass will fail.
I take your point that windows allow passive solar gain.
https://www.homebuilding.co.uk/which-wall-material-has-the-best-u-value/
€13772. The cost per successful placement. Which does not take into account the €10,000 that employers get gifted for taking on someone on unemployment assistance for over two years. And of course we get the ‘sensitive commercial information line’ when questions are asked. And. Varadkars paws all over it at the beginning.
It looks like your daily hate bulletin is having no effect of Leo. He is going from strength to strength.
Shows absolute lack of intelligence re voters
Only thing he said in office worth listening to is that the pro life pro choice labeling is nonsense
If only the dumb plebs could be as clever as you…
Ah, Taunton. The believer of a survey 1000 people out of almost 5,000,000. I’m sure that Leo is having a right laugh at lads like you peddling de party line. Sure the more of those surveys that gives him a false sense of security may bring him to expedite an election. Put that in your next report to the €5 million teetotum machine.
Ahhh Giggidy, believes and regurgitates lefty nonsense in an echo chamber of lefty nonsense. Too afraid to publicly nail his colours to any political mask lest it be used against him. In fact against is all he is, not for anything, just against all things Leo.
How incomplete you are, it must leave you unsatisfied, and feeling kinda pointless.
A survey of 1000 people is more accurate than a survey of one person.
A properly done survey, with a representative sample of the population, that are truthful will result in an accurate survey.
#1 & #2 are within the control of the polling companies.
#3 is the difficult one. In the 2016 general election people wouldn’t tell the pollster they were going to vote for FF – but did.
Do you have other ideas for assisting people get jobs?
One that is cheaper, more effective, and scalable than Jobbridge? (that isn’t already being done)
It’s called education
Did these individuals not go to school?
Springboard.
Define scalable in this context.
scalable: as in it needs to work across the whole country, and assist people into 1,000s of jobs. i.e. not niche. So training people to be come, say, race-car drivers may help some get jobs – but it’s not scalable since there isn’t demand for that specific skill.
“proper system of apprenticeships” on the other hand, is a good example of a scalable idea to help people get jobs.
A proper system of apprenticeships would be helpful for example, given that Trump is taking away the attractiveness of Ireland to call center and data input operators which are manned by imported staff a lot of the time.
“Do you have other ideas for assisting people get jobs?
One that is cheaper, more effective, and scalable than Jobbridge?”
Progressively reducing jobseekers allowance/benefit; for every three months a person is in receipt of a payment, the payment goes down. Reducing employers’ PRSI, reducing or abolishing altogether the minimum wage.
– this would definitely work in terms of job activation; I don’t know if Broadsheet readers would be on-board with the idea, however…
I could live with the reduction of jobseekers based on a mix of time and lack of engagement/training. But if someone is actually looking to work, and is willing to train/retrain to increase their chances I’d support them.
Reducing PRSI is just a grant to the employer – is it any different to JobBridge?
Reducing minimum wage isn’t a runner – unless there are other protections put in place.
In fairness to Varadkar, and while noting the likelihood that he’s a fan of the scheme, he wasn’t responsible for Jobpath. It was introduced under Joan Burton’s tenure as Minister for DSP. It was also a requirement of the troika bailout and slavishly followed the UK model of privatised – and flawed – labour market activation.
There was an undoubted need for labour market activation and there’s little wrong with the principle but the practice is where the problem lies.
An obvious question arises as to why the existing labour market supports in the DSP, Intreo, SOLAS, ETBs, local partnership companies, etc were not developed and resources for this purpose.
Thank you Mr Kamprad