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Self-employed workaholic

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

Re-Turn chief executive and board share six-figure pay rise ✍️ Killian Woods

Re-Turn previously disclosed that five key management personnel, including Foley, were paid a combined €1.1 million in 2024. In its latest annual report, payments to key management personnel rose to €1.4 million.

The figure increased by €300,000 because payments to board members are now included in this item on the balance sheet.

#ReTurn #HowIrelandWorks

https://t.co/6wSdCKpUCA

[Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1]

Last week I described Ireland’s delivery apparatus as an “Escher staircase drenched in public money”. Some people asked me what I meant by that.

So spotted in London today, a picture of Ireland’s delivery apparatus:

[Eamon Melia @EamonMelia]

We got an ESB bill today for 2 summer months that was higher than our bill for the winter months 2 years ago. Bills have doubled over two years and the Govt does fuck all.

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

The absolute state of this.

We did not "fail to redeem" or "leave behind €60mil".

This scheme was foisted upon us.
Its a humiliation ritual for busy families.

It has caused chaos for local councils.
DCC now spends €600k+ to clean up Bin Raids.

What about the scheme's failed bid to get an exemption from paying VAT in unclaimed bottles? How they paid a Fine Gael councillor to lobby a Fine Gael Minister.

Re-Turn spends about €6million a year on advertising and PR.

What about the fact that bin collections now cost more?

Its a complete and utter scam.
Shut it down.

[Ken O’Flynn TD @kenoflynnTD]

€66.7 MILLION of your money.

You paid it at the till on bottles and cans. You never got it back.

Now the private operator Re-turn is sitting on it and says it's "not required" to tell you where it goes or what the bosses are paid.

Not good enough. I won't let it drop.

[Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1]

👀 “Money comes in at insanely world-class levels of efficiency, and money goes out at insanely world-class levels of inefficiency.”

[Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1]

If you’ve read my latest substack on the ways Irish projects fail (and why), you’ll start to notice - regardless of project - THEY’RE ALL THE SAME!

[Laura Perrins BL @LPerrins]

Simon Harris TD has a plan and that is to give us a tax cut of between E1.5 and E2 billion. That’s good of them. The Times reported reported “This move would raise the threshold at which workers begin paying the higher rate of income tax to €46,000, putting up to €400 back in the pockets of workers. The total budget for 2027 is set to be more than €9 billion.”
Four hundred quid would barely cover the VAT on most of your energy bills.
So of the 32.9 billion taken in in corporation tax, they are going to use 9 billion to cut the tax burden on the most heavily taxed earners in the OECD, with the worst transport systems and one the highest cost of living. This is the win we have all been waiting for!!
https://t.co/ostJzZWk8M

[ᚉᚆᚏᚔᚄᚈᚔᚐᚅ @ChristiandrumO]

@gary_worden @PBresnihan @nllwlsh @SineadOS1 👏👏👏👏

[ᚉᚆᚏᚔᚄᚈᚔᚐᚅ @ChristiandrumO]

@caulmick @IrishWater

[ᚉᚆᚏᚔᚄᚈᚔᚐᚅ @ChristiandrumO]

@caulmick Thats the colour of the water coming straight from my taps. No immersion, just heated via combi boiler (brand new) and thats worth €13.1 million bonus? No bath for the baby tonight I guess

[Gombeen @Vote4Gombeen]

@JohnEdwardLee @IrishMailSunday The scoliosis children, Cara Dermody and Charlotte Fallon will be be delighted

[Employment Law Ireland @EmployRightsIE]

Always remember: despite a record tax windfall, they chose not to increase the tax bands in the last Budget for the first time in years. That meant your minimal cost of living pay increase was taken by the State too. It's disgraceful what they're doing to workers.

[Coach JK @John_Kavanagh]

License sales? Its an enforced tax under threat of incarceration.
It should be voluntary and if not enough pay then its disappears, like any business. Why am I forced to pay for "news' I don't watch and Fair City I've zero interest in, madness.

[Niecy O'Keeffe @NiecyOKeeffe]

What a fucking weird way to say something….

[ᚉᚆᚏᚔᚄᚈᚔᚐᚅ @ChristiandrumO]

Now THIS is public service broadcasting. This podcast/deepdive into Ireland’s energy needs to be shared far and wide!
Well done Kev_Collins https://t.co/ovqWXEUSZG

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

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While you're struggling with the highest Energy Prices in the EU

THE Government is splashing the cash on its €300million EU presidency, the evidence of which was seen as European diplomats arrived at Government Buildings on Tuesday. A fleet of new, shiny Mercedes vans and cars rolled into the courtyard of the Taoiseach's office, carrying high-ranking EU mandarins.

#EU #HowIrelandWorks

[Gillian Sherratt @GillSherratt23]

@AccessForAll7 @TomClonan @caulmick @Trickstersworld @DisabilityFed @IrishWheelchair @MichealMartinTD @BernardMulvany €400,000 on wine for the Dáil bar but €400 for disabled people to feed themselves is too much

[Niall Boylan @Niall_Boylan]

Today I spoke to Journalist Larissa Nolan about the Bottle Return Scheme. She says it isn't saving the planet, it's punishing consumers. Has Ireland's biggest "green" policy become one of its biggest rip offs? Listen to the show in the replies.

[Peadar Tóibín TD @Toibin1]

Ireland has the 2nd most expensive electricity prices in the world.

The ESB, a government semi state, made €650m profit last year.

Yesterday it increased the price of electricity again.