Tag Archives: budget

Trouble In Paradise Latest

Admin at 6:55 am September 17, 2012

It’s so on…

Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton last night admonished Minister for State at the Department of Finance Brian Hayes for suggesting that she examine the need to target “well-off” pensioners.

There were strong hints last night that Ms Burton will resist any moves to target pensioners. “Ms Burton will make her views known to her colleagues in Cabinet in the lead-in to the budget. She greatly values the services her department provides to pensioners,” said a spokeswoman.

Mr Hayes, in an interview with The Irish Times on Saturday, had said the political system needed to overcome its reluctance to impose any cutbacks on older people. He pointed out that many were comparatively well off and did not have mortgages.

Damn replacement hipsters.

Ministers clash over cutbacks for pensioners in budget (Harry McGee, Irish Times)

(Sam Boal/Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

More Threats Latest

Admin at 1:08 pm May 1, 2012

Much tougher Budget 2013 if Fiscal Treaty Rejected By Voters Warns Michael Noonan (Ed Carty and Lyndsey Telford, irish Independent)

Occupy Squee

Admin at 6:48 pm January 19, 2012

Teachers, pupils, parents and a human Kit-Kat outside the Department of Education this afternoon protesting against staffing cuts at schools in disadvantaged areas.

Parents To Fight Deis Cuts (Christine Allen, Cork Independent)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Now THIS Is How You Debate A Budget

Niall Murphy at 4:30 pm November 19, 2010

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VId2QdBBWM&feature=player_embedded

Buenos Aires, yesterday.

Argentinian legislator Graciela Camano has just risen from her chair to confront her colleague, Carlos Kunkel during a session of the Upper House’s constitutional affairs commission. Seconds out, round one: