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@EOBroin @Airbnb It’s less than 3% of total housing stock. Also why should the state get to say what people do with their own property.

10 years of Govt inaction on short term lets 👀 @Airbnb facilitating & profiting from widespread breaches of planning law 🤬 Thousands of homes taken out of use making the homeless crisis worse🏠 When will Govt act to enforce their own regulations⁉️

@IrishTimesPol Just cut taxes for everyone.

Unions may seek hefty increases in looming pay talks as spending pressures mount irishtimes.com/politics/2026/… via @IrishTimesPol

@JohnOBrennan2 Exactly, massively reduced the amount of tax the government takes from people’s pay checks, and then cut spending to match that number. It’s pretty simple stuff.

People really need to understand how close the world economy is to experiencing a catastrophic recession. This is not the time for ‘budget largesse’. It is a time for prudence, no matter the size of the surplus.

@BarryAndrewsMEP @vonderleyen Mate, what is standing up?

⚠️ More Trump tariffs. No surprise, he breaks more deals than he makes. Will @vonderleyen finally stand up to him?

@businessposthq Cut taxes, cut Vat, and cut spending. This is really simple.

The majority of voters support the hospitality Vat cut for hospitality, due to come into effect on July 1, according to the latest Business Post/ Red C Poll businesspost.ie/politics/major…

@karldeeter If your “job” is bankrolled by the state. You’re not an artist, you’re a state employee who has a pastime.

This entire project is a tax payer funded experiment that had zero oversight and had to be justified using the economics of pure invention*. As an artist (part of my income is music) I have to laugh at how shit our government are - it's a fiscal bribery scheme.

@thejournal_ie Dose

President Connolly’s first trip overseas has offered a signal of how she plans to use the presidency on the world stage. Her appearance at a left-leaning summit in Barcelona places Ireland among more outspoken global voices on war and international law jrnl.ie/7017225

@AnMailleach Until people are finished reading the articles about what Leo Varadkar said about rural Ireland.

Eoin O’Malley: Simon Harris avoids heat in fuel protest fallout, but for how much longer? independent.ie/opinion/eoin-o…

@JohnOBrennan2 John, it ain’t going to happen. You know that. The EU knows that. Everyone knows that. If you think the protests during the week were bad, imagine what it would look like if any Irish government signed off on that. It’s a ridiculous proposition tbh.

I can hardly describe the utter stupidity of most of the replies to this.

@JohnOBrennan2 I understand enough to know absolutely zero countries will pay that fine. If they do it will be a straight equation of citizens looking at EU overreach to their own personal detriment. There is zero chance any political party in Ireland will sign off on that. Zero. Realpolitik

@blueelmacho you obviously understand nothing about how the EU works, or Ireland’s relationship with the Union.

In all the talk about appropriate responses to the energy crisis in Ireland. Virtually nobody is talking about the fact that our accumulated surpluses of recent years (up to 25b Euros) will be completely WIPED OUT by climate change fines if we fail to meet our legal obligations.

@JohnOBrennan2 As I said just don’t pay it, what are they going to do? Kick us out? Nope they can’t do that, they couldn’t even do that to Hungary. The public would go bananas if €22B was handed over for missing a target related to climate.

@blueelmacho These are legally binding obligations under EU rules.

@caulmick @muirisoc @irishdailymail He is only the top of the pyramid. This flows down across large sections of the public service. They are unfunded and therefore should be treaded as a Benefit In Kind. That would clawback some of this to the taxpayers.

H O W I R € L A N D W O R K S ROBERT WATT is to walk away from his job at the Department of Health with a gold-plated pension of almost €150,000 a year. - @muirisoc The country's highest paid civil servant, whose successor as secretary-general was named this week, will be entitled to draw down nearly €600.000 in the first year, including a €438,000 lump sum and the first annual pension payment of €146.000. #HowIrelandWorks #Watt #IrelandisBroken #LaughingAtUs #DeptofHealth

@irishcongress @drbambrick @owenreidy There is a big difference between protesting and having the public behind you. The public won’t be behind any strikes by out of touch Unions.

Speaking on RTÉ Six One News on the cost of living pressures on workers our general secretary @owenreidy said “what took place last week shows might is right. The rules have changed. Too many in Government have taken industrial peace for granted.” Read our full statement below.

@danobrien20 @thecurrency I think reducing the tax burden is the inevitable direct of travel here. The problem for the government is they have narrowed the PAYE tax base to the squeezed middle paying the most. However it can very easily be funded by spending cuts.

My @thecurrency column today looks at the fuel protests, why they happened, what they mean and why the government will struggle if public opinion shifts to wanting tax cuts over ever higher spending. Link to follow.

@JohnEdwardLee @jackfchambers @RTENewsAtOne Yep, cute wasteful spend to reduce taxes, like it’s pretty simple in fairness.

If €2 a litre of petrol becomes the norm, Government will have to reconsider its ‘interventions’ in Budget 27 could change says @jackfchambers @RTENewsAtOne

@PaulSommerville Not true. We created an entire class of NGO workforce, a spectacular opportunity for failed politicians, activists and academics to continue their tenuous relationship with work. We have also enriched hundreds of thousands of Public Sector workers with millionaire pensions.

#Ireland “It extracted from others and failed to build anything for itself. That is the uniquely disgraceful aspect of the Irish model; not the extraction alone, but the total nothingnessthat followed it. The nothingness we live in”.

@finbarmcd @douwanttea @JamesOConnorTD @albertdolan_ @ryanomeara_td We are almost last in the OECD for tax competitiveness for people (income earners). Paying 52% on low incomes. Majority are paying Scandinavian rates, with zero perceived benefits. This group is paying for everything and everyone else. taxfoundation.org/research/all/g…

@blueelmacho @douwanttea @JamesOConnorTD @albertdolan_ @ryanomeara_td Holds with GNP or GNI also. Income and corpo taxes lower, Vat not too different. The multinationals and younger population driving it, not careful spending.

Joint statement on behalf of Albert Dolan TD, Ryan O’Meara TD and James O’Connor TD. @albertdolan_ @ryanomeara_td

@finbarmcd @douwanttea @JamesOConnorTD @albertdolan_ @ryanomeara_td Taxes are low? Do explain

@blueelmacho @douwanttea @JamesOConnorTD @albertdolan_ @ryanomeara_td When the PDs were founded, the economy hadn’t grown for years and we were really high tax. Now the economy is booming and taxes are low by comparison to EU.

@FineGael That does not make you a professional artist. It makes you a GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE For the love of Jesus will you for once treat taxpayers money with some level of respect.

Are you professional artist in Ireland? The Basic Income for the Arts scheme could be for you 👇