Archive for April, 2009

Broadband for Eadestown

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Working in IT, (and admittedly a bit of an anorak at times), technology is never far from my mind. So it didn’t take much prompting for me to include broadband provision as a campaign pledge when I set out my stall a while back.

Having been around the ward a bit at this stage I now [...]

Mini Budget 2009

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

It’s interesting how different people can have different triggers to events. I listened to the emergency budget via newstalk from work on Tuesday and was relatively sanguine about the effect on my own household (We take a hefty hit as as SITCOMs – “single income two kids outstanding mortgage”!) but in general I was quite [...]

April Budget 2009

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Logging as it comes in…
Construction – got it wrong – over dependent – property bubble
International perspective
Contraction property sector
Openness economy
Stablise public finance
Restore international reputation
Stimulate economic confidence
Protect Jobs
Repair banks
“From each according to his means”
Governement examining own costs..
Remuneration scheme
10% additional reduction, (25% reduction already)
No long service increments
Ministerial Pensions in service – gone
Teachers differences – gone
Oireachtas chairs – halved
Whips, [...]