PRSI Ceiling removal would pay for medical card reinstatement three times over As we all know by now, Fianna Fáil have taken the medical card away from pensioners, causing huge consternation and uproar. Just as bad was the bare-faced bailout for developers, where the Government will now provide mortgages to those who can’t get bank [...]
October 18th, 2008 at
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Politics (Ireland) | tags:
air travel tax,
bail out,
brian lenihan,
budget 2009,
developer bailout,
excise,
fianna fáil,
mary harney,
medical card,
mortgages,
older people,
parliamentary question,
pensioners,
petrol,
ruairi quinn,
sunday tribune,
tax,
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Bye, bye Progressive Democrats, it would appear. At least according to the media. I think we’ve all known they were on the way out since the last General Election. It was just a matter of timing. Harry McGee also writes a bit more about this on the Irish Times Politics blog (a great source of [...]
September 15th, 2008 at
12:03 in
Politics (Ireland) | tags:
ciaran cannon,
fianna fáil,
fine gael,
fiona o'malley,
green party,
health,
irish politics,
labour party,
mary harney,
progressive democrats |
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