The rulers of the world’s biggest country are running scared
When politicians get into “building a legacy” mode, that’s when they’re at their most dangerous to their colleagues.
Families lose out, again.
One suspects, in this case, that Mr. O’Callaghan is not going to prison because of what he did, but because of how foolish he has revealed the state to be.
At present, Ireland is on course for a disastrous pensions reckoning
In 2020 up to the end of November, there were 15,295 work permits issued to non EU nationals. The total for the previous year including renewals was 16,380. It is quite likely then, given the numbers who have arrived since Christmas from Brazil that the total of permits granted last year was very similar to, […]
A great scoop in the independent by privacy reporter Ken Foxe: Details of the lump sums, pensions and termination pay for individual TDs and senators will no longer be made public following a decision by Oireachtas authorities. The payments have been published by Leinster House for more than a decade without issue. However, the Oireachtas […]
Will we be working until we’re 75 because we’re not having enough children to pay for pensions? WATCH and share
Credit to whatever low-paid research nerd at C-Span who is spending the crisis sitting at home and watching old political clips for coming up with this gem: President George W. Bush in 2005: "There is no pandemic flu in our country or in the world at this time. But if we wait for a pandemic […]
Fine Gael’s election campaign seems to have been derailed in part by the understandable anger felt by voters at the mess the government has made of the pensions issue. The issue has arisen because private sector workers retire at 65 but since 2014 they have not been entitled to access the State pension until 66 […]
There will be mandatory pension contributions of 8% of your wages and its on track to start in 2021
Are you ready for this? Will you afford it? How should governments deal with the impending pension time-bomb?