Listening to Fianna Fáil at the Council meeting on Monday, anyone would think that the Cllrs all suffered from amnesia. It was Fianna Fáil that signed us up to Water Charges in 2010. Fine Gael and Labour just followed their lead. Below is the hard evidence of the agreement signed by the then Fianna Fáil minister for Finance. Sinn Féin are opposed to water charges and will abolish them if elected to government. There are two upcoming protests Saturday at 2pm Garden of rememberance Local protest next Thursday at 6pm meeting outside Ballymun shopping centre, Ballymun Road. 24. To secure our fiscal targets, a number of fiscal measures have been identified for 2012–14. We will continue to rely on expenditure savings (€6.1 billion), led by current spending (€4.9 billion), as outlined in the National Recovery Plan. We are targeting further reductions in public sector numbers, social benefits and programme spending, and have anchored the prospective savings by publishing multi-year expenditure ceilings by Vote Group through 2014. We are also planning to move towards full cost-recovery in the provision of water services and ensuring a greater student contribution towards tertiary education, while ensuring that lower-income groups remain supported. In addition, we will accelerate the process of placing the pension systems on a path consistent with long-term sustainability of public finances. On the tax side, we will build on the base-broadening measures outlined above and establish a sound basis for sub-national finances through a new residential-property based site value tax. The Finance Bill 2012 will contain necessary provisions to bring into effect the already signalled VAT increases in 2013 and 2014.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 13:13:07 +0000
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