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    Re-registering birth following marriage

    Well, yes - but it's still possible, under the Civil Registration Act 2004 to re-register the birth to reflect the marriage. See section 24 of the Act (oddly, although we no longer refer to a child born to an unmarried couple as illegitimate, the subsequent marriage of the parents still...
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    covering for wooden stairs?

    I'd carpet the stairs, largely for noise reasons but also because re-finishing them is a finicky job. Covering them with anything else, whether it's tiles or veneer, may not give the quality of finish you're looking for and could be difficult to match to your other finishes. The only carpet we...
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    moving into rented house while renting out my own

    Yes, it becomes an investment property. You'll need to check the terms and conditions of your mortgage letter of offer - some require you to notify any change in status, others don't. If you don't still have that, call your lender to check - and get the answer in writing. Yes. You won't be...
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    Interest relief

    My understanding is the following (but really, you probably need to take professional tax advice): 1. If the mortgage was taken out exclusively to fund the purchase and refurbishment of the rental property, then interest on that mortgage - no matter what property it's actually secured on -...
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    Career Breaks for Civil servants

    So, example 1: Saving = (Salary * 3) - (1/3 salary * 3) = Saving of €74,000 Example 2: Saving = (Salary * 3) - (redundancy payment + [let's just say they stay unemployed due to the current economic conditions] (156 * 204.30) ) = €111,000 - (€24,720 + €31,870.80) = Saving of €54,409.20 I...
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    Career Breaks for Civil servants

    Funny, when PTSB introduced a similar scheme it was hailed as a creative, innovative way to reduce payroll costs during a serious downturn but still retain in the longer term the services of trained, experienced, dedicated staff. When the civil service does the same thing, it's a waste of...
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    Stamp Duty - Existing home owner + fiancee (FTB)

    @D4Chick - It may be possible for him to buy in his own name and qualify for a stamp duty exemption. However, there are a number of issues to consider: (1) He may not qualify for a mortgage on his own; (2) You could not be on the deeds of the house for a substantial period; (3) If you...
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    can parents ask for class average results

    You can request it but you're certainly not entitled to it, and there may well be data protection issues around providing such information. In any case, without knowing the ability of the class, average results don't mean very much. You can look up school inspection reports here...
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    Allow cats in apt or not ?

    Wrong! My cats rather like scratching leather couches - good resistance for the claws. That said, I'd allow it - but tell the tenant (nicely) it's on condition that she also gets a good scratching post for them and that she'll be liable for any damage to furniture beyond normal wear and tear...
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    Award wining restaurant - complaint

    Always better to complain as soon as a problem emerges, but the restaurant appears to have been most inept - a 30 minute wait for Irish coffees after they already knew there was a problem is very poor indeed.
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    RTE News apologise for reporting about Cowen caricature

    I'm not "pontificating support" for anything; my comments were primarily about the political and official response which appears to have been startlingly heavy-handed and, in my personal opinion, inappropriate. And I genuinely don't know what you mean by "usual post-colonial Irish thing". What...
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    RTE News apologise for reporting about Cowen caricature

    Do you need your satire to be clearly labelled as such before you accept its validity? Do you need to know something is satire in advance in order to know how to react to it? Some of the best satire works precisely because of its ambiguity. In any case, my point isn't whether the particular...
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    RTE News apologise for reporting about Cowen caricature

    I agree with Madangan and Lollix. I'd also add that whether you think the paintings are tasteful is downright irrelevant - the political interference and attempts at censorship mean this is now about the much more profound issues of freedom of speech and freedom of political and artistic...
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    Parking outside house buggy owner annoyed

    I really really hope that you are clamped, because that's an utterly obnoxious post. "there's plenty of room for her to walk on the road."??? So you would put people in harm's way because you feel an entitlement to park illegally? Charming. :mad:
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    Dont understand negative equity.

    Equity in a property is the value of the property minus any outstanding mortgage. You have negative equity when your mortgage is bigger than the current value (as Baldyman27 says - nathan210705 is wrong). Your examples above do not have enough information to say whether the house is in...
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    Gas Boiler Water Pressure

    Is there a tap under your boiler which can be opened to let water into the system? Mine has that, and when the pressure drops below about 0.6 bar the boiler won't fire; all I need to do is open the tap until the pressure rises to about 1 / 1.1 bar. It's a condensing gas boiler, which may be...
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    EBS Mortgage

    You're right: the conditions of the bond set out maximum LTV ratios based on "prudent market value", and non-performing mortgages must be removed from the pool. That does leave the on-books lending profile having a higher proportion of the lender's riskier loans. As a corollary, that probably...
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    Leaving Cert Orals to suffer

    That's not pedantic - I had no idea what you were talking about. And frankly the clarification doesn't improve matters much.
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    Leaving Cert Orals to suffer

    :confused: Exactly how would that be a strike? That said, LC is stressful enough as it is, and I hope students will not be made suffer.
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    Unions on the run now.Would you now pass the picket?

    In the vast majority of organisations, there'd be keyholders at senior level who would be given the responsibility of opening up in such a situation. If that's your scan-attendance policy, I fear you may need to re-think :rolleyes:.
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