Cabinet agree to €4billion in cuts including 10% in Social Welfare: MoS

[punchdrunk]

i didn't know that this wasa happening in 2011 - we should make every effort to get people to leave.

Perhaps you might leave yourself. And they talk about Cromwell or the Scottish clearances. It is time we solved our own problems and did not rely on emigration.

[noodles]

On inflation two noticeable growth areas are health and education. Unemployed people do not have these costs due to medical cards, back to school allowance etc.

[Silvio Dante]

According to the Mail on Sunday, and I understand that other papers have similar stories, the Cabinet has agreed to €4billion in spending cuts for 2010 including a 10% cut in the €21.5billion Social Welfare budget. The other big cut is €1.5billion in capital expenditure.

The 10% cut in Social Welfare will not include pensions and the Christmas bonus may be restored to sweeten the bitter pill. However, the cuts will involve the ending of universal children's allowance and in order to achieve an overall 10% cut without hitting pensions the government will have to hit unemployment benefit/allowance by somewhere between 15-20%. That will entail a €30-40 cut in the weekly single rate of €204.30. Meaning the basic weekly rate will be cut to somewhere between €165-175, with pro-rata cuts for couples etc.

Eminently sensible proposals...

[Dreaded_Estate]

Eminently sensible proposals...

I hope you are being sarcastic

[blanket]

Did it take your little brain long to come up with that wonderful intellectual contribution?

my little brain came to that conclusion quite quickly when I saw exactly that (pensioners sobbing on chairs) on my last two visits to A&E (vincents & james'). One woman had been there overnight and was waiting in pain with her daughter for a doctor. she had been given a duvet though, so thats ok.

to clarify, I'm not talking about people waiting on plastic chairs to be assessed, I mean people overnighting on padded chairs taken from the wards, in pajamas, because there was no room for trolleys or no trolleys left.

I would however like to see less middle management and a move to realistic pay rates, its not sustainable to pay consultants over twice that of the uk rate, nor nurse 40% more

how reasonable of you.

who is responsible for that situation? FF, who allowed it to perpetuate to protect their "mandate".

christ.