Comments on: Budget 2010

By: @honeybee_57

@honeybee_57 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:58:28 +0000

Oh my God! That's so sad. Ireland has fought so hard for freedom for so long and to have to give up even more is heart wrenching. America may not be that far behind if we don't make some critical changes in leadership.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:20:15 +0000

I work in Ireland but live north of the border and I have to say what the Irsih people have and are putting up with in terms of their own Government making the ordinary mass of people pay big time for the greed and incompetence of the big bankers, developers and big business just would not be tolerated by those in the North or UK. For a start the Government would have to fall and massive penalty taxes would have to be extracted from the banks etc. Don’t fall for this nonsense about not wanting to frighten the banks away…let them go if thats what they want because national banks can be set up and run by the tax payer and the profits should then go back to the taxpayer not welathy individuals. This Fianna fail Government must pay the price for its part in letting this happen on its own watch. If the public servants were being hammered the same way in the North the country would be brought to a standstill until the Government seen sense. The UK Government does not play off the public sector against the private one the way the Dublin one does despite the fact that the UK private sector has also been hard hit…if you drastically cut back public funding in a recession then the economy loses even more disposable income to stimulate businesses.

By: Daniel J.

Daniel J. — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:51:34 +0000

Any deal the Fanna Failers are, or were, or will be involved in will always be suspect. Where do Sinn Fein stand on this? They voted with the government yesterday! There was an opportunity to bring them down….. have they not supported the west coast objectors?
We have a President : a lawyer by training, we hear from her about the loneliness of rural communities and a lot of other rubbish but she does nothing about major matters like this : she should be the one to sue the b******s by using the Council of State. My taxi driver was right last month :'' if you have never lived outside Ireland , you don't know what life is about '' !
The Diaspora ( capital '' D '' ) ARE THE ONLY HOPE FOR DEAR AULD iRELAND and there are about 60 million of you. I am back home now, playing at home. Will ye no come back again and help me ?

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:52:25 +0000

If we can prove that Ray got another brown envelope full of cash from them then we can cancel the deal. Where are the fraud squad on this?

By: Ruairi

Ruairi — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:13:03 +0000

Absolutely nothing wrong with Hugo Chavez except that he's looking after the have-nots, even sending subsidised and cheap heating oil to new Yorkers if I remember correctly.

Incidentally, a Labour cabinet member started that rollback process, way before Ray Burke's time. Only he drove the nails in big time.

This info was initially 'packaged' on http://www.Indymedia.ie, and of course its 100% true, including being the reason that Norway's prime minister insist that Statoil pull out, but because it approximates a tax on wealth, its seen as anathema to how we do business in Ireland. Despite the fact that the USA itself has a wealth tax. As does Britain.

NO, asking questions is not enough. We need to start actively resisting those who do not assist our freedom. Ask your TD how this oil asset anomaly can have laws rolled back and yet how Revenue cannot apparently 'roll back' wealth taxes on property gains in the Celtic Tiger. How, as above states, Eamonn Ryan has not 'rolled back' some changes to better suit the Irish people.

We should be daring, brave and pioneering and say the deal is off to all current oilcos. But we won't !!!!!!! Because the HAVEs are in fine fettle, thank you very much! Landlords are alive and well in ireland, they never left. And their agents are called FF.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:06:24 +0000

Learn from Gaddafi, Hugo Chavez and a number of other leaders who, whether we like them or not, have had the guts to stand up for their people and cut fair deals with multinationals. Is that so difficult? Or would it mean that certain families in this country would not be able to afford the best of everything any more?

Mike

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:26:50 +0000

Well done for writing this. An area that keeps getting marginalised yet it affects everyone. We're in for a hard ride over the coming years and it'd be great if we all sat up and just started asking questions.
If we don't ask now then how can we explain it later? (hope that makes sense).

Marie.

By: Margo

Margo — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:40:32 +0000

Thank you for this brilliant clear article exposing this scandal and the sheer gobshiteness of previous Irish administrations. How well wined and dined were they for this disposal of the country's assets?

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:54:14 +0000

Any deal Ray Burke was involved in has to be suspect. We need a new deal.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:47:10 +0000

Great article, the oil and gas giveaway must stop if we are to retrieve the country from the current mess.