Tag Archives: Prices

Ah here.

This morning.

Fuel industry engaging in profiteering ‘simply not the case’ (RTE)

RollingNews

Meanwhile…

Anyone?

Meanwhile…

Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe and the Minister for Transport and the Minister for the Environment, Climate, and Communications, Eamon Ryan this afternoon

Good grief.

This afternoon.

Earlier…

Jaykers.

This morning.

Circle K, Dublin city.

Meanwhile…

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe this morning

This morning.

Government Buildings.

Earlier…

This morning.

Via RTE News:

The Cabinet has agreed a cut in excise duty on petrol and diesel.

The reduction will be 20 cent per litre on petrol and 15 cent per litre of diesel.

A cut of 2 cent per litre on green diesel has been agreed.

The reduction will be in place until August 31 and will cost €320 million.

Cabinet approves cuts to excise duty on petrol, diesel (RTE)

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Mark Malone writes:

Purchased on February 14th for €150,000. Now on the market for €249,000. Flipped for 70% price hike in the middle of a housing crisis.

Via Daft.ie…

“This exceptional property has been totally renovated with a new heating system, replumbed, rewired, new kitchen, new bathroom suite, new windows and stylishly decorated throughout providing a turnkey prospect for potential purchasers.”

10 Nicholas Avenue, Smithfield, Dublin 7 (Daft.ie)

Previously: Flipping Hell

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Joe Collins writes:

We all know they tweak with fares but its worthwhile seeing it in action now and again. Aer Lingus prices to Paris for this coming Sunday, the day Ireland ‘might’ have played had they won. Before and after yesterday’s game. The 13:40 flight was €414.99 before KO and down to €167.99 after the Boys in Green’s adventure was ended.

Anyone?

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SPLUTTER!

Bonkers writes:

There was a Eurostat report out yesterday that showed Ireland is now the most expensive country in the EU to buy alcohol with costs here running at 175% of the EU average.

We are the second most expensive for tobacco (behind the UK) and third most expensive country in which to buy milk, cheese and eggs (all produced in vast quantities within our borders)

On alcohol we’ve recently seen former Minister for Health Leo Varadkar try to introduce a Minimum Alcohol Pricing bill which would undoubtedly make prices of alcohol rise to over double the EU average.

We’ve had politicians persistently tell us that ‘cheap alchohol’ in supermarkets is to blame for all sorts of societal problems. Instead of education our politicians use taxation.

Publicans have come out in favour of minimum unit pricing, on public health grounds, they say.

They even went so far as to lobby the Dept of Health and the Dept of Justice to get Minimum Unit Pricing introduced

I find it a bit strange then for publicans to be claiming that off-licence sales are ‘too cheap’ and need to be raised on public health grounds while at the very same time they were lobbying the Dept of Finance for “Maintaining the current hospitality VAT Rate; Increasing the VAT Threshold from €75,000 to €110,000; Reducing the Excise level on alcohol”.

So they want the government to increase the price of alcohol in supermarkets on health grounds but at the same time they want alcohol excise reduced to help decrease the price of alcohol in their own premises.

Does not compute, surely Irish publicans would never pull a stroke?

Hic.

FIGHT!