Over the last decade, health spending in Ireland has increased by more than 20%. And yet, has the health service gotten appreciably better?
There is no group, for example, pointing out to Government and the media that the Carbon tax hits the poor disproportionately.
“Never has so much been spent to achieve so little”, said Pearse Doherty, responding to it. It is very hard to argue that he is wrong.
The 2020/ 2021 Budget is not behind us. It’s what we’re facing into, in its impact on our society, our politics – now irrevocably changed – and our world. The world seems very close, pressing in on us, spooked by uncertainties and fear. Economic fears, certainly. But also deeper fears that, somehow, what is happening […]
An interesting aspect of the Budget was that it once again illustrated the minimal differences that exist across the entire range of political parties in Leinster House. Apart from the outlier of the People Before Profit demand for a wealth tax which they claim would deliver €3.5 billion, all of the arguing was over different […]