Category Archives: TD

TD’s unite to give themselves a pay rise

in case you missed this By John Drennan Sunday November 07 2010 As the country faces economic meltdown, TDs and senators are planning to improve their already plush terms and conditions. An official estimate of the money required to run … Continue reading

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The party is over Boys and Girls in the Dail

Poor Mr.Bernard Durkan tells us he will not be giving back his pension (€5,483) Listen to Bernard  click Bernard Durkan TD But Bernard is not the only one of the Dail Poor in receipt of a nifty addition to his … Continue reading

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Forget the minimum wage and work for nothing!

Work Placement Program (WPP) Languishing on the Dole for the last 12 months and not in receipt of any payments (because I was self-employed) I heard about this program, and thought I would go down to the local FAS office … Continue reading

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Development Aid

Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael) I understand the issue of development aid has been deferred to next June’s Council meeting, but events in Haiti overshadowed the meeting of Development Ministers that took place last week. Will the Minister discuss with … Continue reading

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Wicklow towns roads

Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)   Wicklow County Council has been given €850,000 to maintain its roads in 2010. With three weeks gone in the year and 49 weeks to go, I estimate that between €500,000 and €600,000 of that … Continue reading

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Bertie Ahern’s exemption from Tax

Extract taken from http://www.thestory.ie The 2006 capping of the exempt income has – as artists’ lobby group, Visual Artists warned – resulted in some high-earning individuals moving their tax residency abroad. The most infamous case, of course being U2, who … Continue reading

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The green guttersnipes

  Mr Gogarty, a green TD who along with his party have sold out the young and old and the unemployed of this country, for the perks and merks of office. Mr.GOGARTY, has Shown the true colours of this party … Continue reading

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Budget 2010

Remember the joke ‘What’s the difference between Iceland and Ireland? One letter and six months!’ Oh how Insider wishes that had been true. The Icelanders took no crap from their Government; They took to the streets and toppled their Government, … Continue reading

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To All TD’s

Give us jobs, results, not SoundBits! The Government is busy telling us, they must fix the banking system first and then the finances of the country This is all well and dandy but what about the likes of the hundreds … Continue reading

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Dear Minster

  Dear Minster Having recently failed to get a FAS course on website development and having waited 9 months to hear that that course was cancelled I heard to-day from my local FAS office (Wicklow Town FAS) Thanks to very … Continue reading

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