Government has today ruled out a mini budget to tackle rising costs and the energy crisis for Ireland.
Government has today welcomed and passionately supported a €90 billion loan for Ukraine.
You are being humiliated.
I see what you are trying to do Mark but have you thought about this statistic and asked yourself why we spend less on food. Maybe it’s because that’s all we have after rip-off taxes, energy, accommodation, transport and every other bill.
Throwing out pointless statistics makes no sense without understanding maybe.
The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile.
That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap.
That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel.
People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.
@LeoVaradkar You had *checks notes* thirteen years in government to make these graphs look different. Thankfully only one of us teaches economics. You wouldn’t even get into my class 💁🏼♀️
Life expectancy measures wealth and demographics, not health infrastructure which is in here. Ireland has the highest bed occupancy in the OECD, 43% fewer beds than the EU average, 900,000 on waiting lists, and 75% of GP lists closed to new patients. Education attainment is high yes, but 35,000 of those graduates emigrated last year because they can't afford to live here. The graph measures what the state builds and delivers, not outcomes that succeed despite it.
What about the rest of us?
My company has 12 vans on the road and paying nearly €2k per week for fuel. We’re not in the haulage or agri-food sector but we have 85+ employees and subcontractors who still have to get to work and it’s becoming unaffordable for them to do so.
THEY WERE NOT WORRIED ABOUT 👇
🧒Scoliosis surgeries cancelled.
🏥Cancer screening cancelled during lockdown
🏥Children's hospital excessive delays
🏥Overcrowding in UH Limerick
🏥700 per day on hospital trolleys
Fianna Fail can Foxtrot Oscar. Please don't by into this BS.
Suddenly the Gov are concerned about people missing hospital appointments.
These are the same people who allowed children to die because their names were covertly taken off waiting lists.
The same Government that let #scoliosis curvatures become inoperable.
Now they care!
Yelling “Fuck you kid killer” as he beats this war criminal bloody is hard as fuck. This is what a real man looks like which is why the iof only ever target women and children.