If you work your whole life and pay PRSI in Ireland, and you are not in a pension scheme you reach 66 years of age, you are entitled to €299 per week of a pension.
If you never worked a day in your life and you reach 66 years old……. You are entitled to €288 per week!
So you work 40 to 50 years of your life AND pay PRSI every week for a pathetic €11 per week!
Make it make sense!
Only in Ireland🙈
19 South Terrace in Cork City, owned by UCC Building & Estates, has been on the Derelict Sites Register since January 2001. Its market value is €180,000. After nearly 25 years on the Cork City Derelict Site Register, the accumulated levy and interest now totals approximately €861,840.
Cork City Derelict Site Register:
https://t.co/LzqTTjOizU
Derelict Sites Act, 1990
Annual levy: 7% × €180,000 = €12,600 per year. Unpaid levies accrue interest at 1.25% per month.
Principal levies (2001–2024): €302,400
Accrued interest: €559,440
Total due now (excluding 2025 levy): €861,840
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Cork
In my visualisation, red blocks represent some of the Derelict and Vacant Sites in Cork City.
317,000 people spoiled their votes or voted for a withdrawn candidate.
Spoiled votes beat the government candidates in a number of constituencies.
Don't let the government off the hook for this.
https://t.co/zlSpsPKcvg
A journey of an electricity bill in a small restaurant over an 11 year period for one month
May 2025 - €2000 (Flogas)
May 2024 - €1600 (Flogas)
May 2023 - €2230 (Flogas)
May 2022 - €2530 (Flogas)
May 2021 - €690 (Flogas)
May 2020 - €450 (Flogas)
May 2019 - €990 (Energia)
May 2018 - €1260 (Energia)
May 2017 - €1184 (Energia)
May 2016 - €1130 (Energia)
May 2015 - €1175 (Energia)
Notes
2020 opened a pop up deli from 2nd week onwards during Covid
2021 - pop up deli all month as they closed us down again for Covid
I use a broker that runs a pricing gauge against main providers and I always pick lowest provider obviously.
Summary
Electricity bills for businesses have doubled after Covid from pre covid
Slight decrease in last two years from post covid prices
Apparently we have an energy regulator. Apparently, our energy rates are the highest in Europe. I repeat, apparently we have an energy regulator
So when you rush to say restaurants are ripping you off, I can tell you now, most are running at a break even rate, if even! If you don’t believe me, please feel free to open one and join me and my fellow peers in making millions like us
Government policies over the last 5 years throughout covid and immigration have decimated our industry and many other small family run businesses. You will see mass closures again this winter (if not before). A reduction in the VAT rate will not solve this
Urgent immediate rebates in employers rsi, energy costs and rates are the only thing that will save these businesses from closures. This was my message to @peterburkefg
I hope the Minister and his department will listen to what I said
If you think the above bill is bad, you should see what businesses pay in tax for the luxury of hiring people and how that amount has increased over the same time frame. Or what the average wage cost percentage has increased by over this timeframe too. Then you will realise that it is not the small businesses of Ireland that are robbing you
It’s the government
A “Michael Lowrey” – with an E – took ownership of a new home before selling to independent TD Michael Lowry’s daughter for €50,000.
Lowry’s refrigeration company later bought the house from his daughter for €290,000 and remains the current owner.
https://t.co/tx01GnenLr