Brendan Burgess
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Unlikely on average. Over a lifetime they will pay a lot of taxes, including to fund your pension and mine.She is costing the taxpayer a fortune with her 5 children.
In the meantime it's costing between €35k-€40k a year to send them to school. Add in children's allowance, medical costs etc and the State is probably spending a minimum of €60,000 a year on them. Should they also get a free (or close to free) house in a high-cost area ahead of someone who can buy the same house on the open market.Unlikely on average. Over a lifetime they will pay a lot of taxes, including to fund your pension and mine.
@Brendan Burgess - were any of the latter two cases challenged on their situations?
Fair enough. I'd also like lots of things I can't afford. Do you think morning Ireland would like to interview me?Hi Purple
Just to be clear, the woman with the big family was not looking for social housing. Her husband earns 3 times the national average salary. But she just wants to buy a house big enough for her big family in Greystones.
I know people from Greystones who would love to stay in the area, but can't afford to. They buy elsewhere and hope, that, in time, they can trade their way up and back.
Brendan
Purple “I get very despondent at being priced out of the unicorn market”Fair enough. I'd also like lots of things I can't afford. Do you think morning Ireland would like to interview me?
Morning Ireland Presenter “What about that Minister, what are the government going to do about the provision of affordable Unicorns?!”
I listened back. First woman was 26. That does change it slightly. She's only starting out on her working life. A social house will station her in one area and will make her reluctant to move to take other opportunities.Very interesting interviews this morning.
The first is a 36(?) year old single woman living in the country. Not sure where. She is working. She will be on the housing list for another 10 years as she has no children. She has been advised to quit her job and have kids on her own to get on the housing list.
I have great sympathy for her. She should be prioritised on getting social housing close to where she is working.
People who are not working should be allocated housing wherever in the country it is available. Having children should not allow you skip the queue.
We should have a constitutional amendment to enshrine the right to Unicorns. I'm sure there will be no unintended consequences and having it in our constitution will somehow make Unicorns available for all.I, for one, am more than willing to pay a unicorn tax if it means every gets access to a unicorn. Unicorns are a human right.
She is costing the taxpayer a fortune with her 5 children.
In the meantime it's costing between €35k-€40k a year to send them to school. Add in children's allowance, medical costs etc and the State is probably spending a minimum of €60,000 a year on them. Should they also get a free (or close to free) house in a high-cost area ahead of someone who can buy the same house on the open market.
Oddly enough I think a government representative promising unicorns to everybody in the country, being 5 years late and €1 Billion over budget to finally deliver a load of donkeys with dildos strapped to their heads is an apt metaphor for all Irish government policies.Minister: "Well Aine, my department is working on it and we hope to have a plan in place to provide them to everyone in the country by the end of next year. We have provided more free unicorns than any previous government."
Brilliant.Oddly enough I think a government representative promising unicorns to everybody in the country, being 5 years late and €1 Billion over budget to finally deliver a load of donkeys with dildos strapped to their heads is an apt metaphor for all Irish government policies.
Brilliant.Oddly enough I think a government representative promising unicorns to everybody in the country, being 5 years late and €1 Billion over budget to finally deliver a load of donkeys with dildos strapped to their heads is an apt metaphor for all Irish government policies.
Brendan correct me on that and I said "Fair enough".Why have you chosen to make these snide, ad hominem comments? You didn't even read the circumstances, she wasn't looking for "a free house", yet straight to turning her circumstances against her.
She's not.How is she responsible for what the state policy on family is?
No, you should be grateful and do everything you can to become self reliant so that you don't have to live off your neighbours.If I need help with housing and I receive another benefit by default, should I be excluded?
I'm in the same boat. I don't expect other people to subsidise my wants.She clearly has to cut her cloth, she was lamenting the housing crisis forcing her to make choices between buying a (suitable) house and staying in her community.
No, I'm pointing out that there is already a massive social transfer to middle income families from single people and rich people.The housing market has outperformed expectations considerably in the last year or two and you're holding child benefit and children's schooling against her.
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