Great job everyone. Couldn’t have done it without ye.
ShoddyPreparation on
Housing, infrastructure and pay for Doctors and Nurses.
Please.
bulbispire on
Between corporate tax and Apple windfall, this is mostly once off.
Surely it’s got to go to infrastructure, rain day funds and debt paydown. Anything else would overheat the economy
saggynaggy123 on
So they’re going to mass build social housing, invest in rail and public transport, and fix our health system….right?
1stltwill on
I’ll take my share in small non sequemtial unmarked bills please.
TheStoicNihilist on
Eat shit, scoliosis kids!
Holiday_Toe5779 on
More houses then?
Fix the HSE then?
Eliminate USC then?
Better childcare provisions then?
Finish the fucking NCH then?
LOL jk
Beach_Glas1 on
That’s about €5000 for every single person in Ireland.
SamShpud on
INVEST IN INFRASTRUCTURE YOU PRICKS!
protocolskull on
Are Apple just going to write the gov a cheque and that’s that? I suspected there would be another 4 rounds of appeals then a 10 year repayment plan meaning by the time we get 13bn, it will buy 2 Guinness in Temple Bar.
CarelessEquivalent3 on
Macarons and bike sheds for everyone!!
shorelined on
Mad that this money is sat somewhere not being used for anything, a colossal act of irresponsibility, incompetence and dereliction of duty.
rom9 on
1 million Euro bike sheds for all!!
A-Hind-D on
Sweet now stop taxing me so much or build infrastructure fast
SignalEven1537 on
Cut the ‘temporary’ usc
the_0tternaut on
Enough to pay France to build us a 4GW nuclear power station beside where Moneypoint is right now.
Crackabis on
They’re going to do something stupid with this, we don’t need any more tax breaks.
Increase nurses,doctors, teachers and gardai’s pay, clear the waitlist for kids with scoliosis, train more dentists, orthodontists and GPs (literally set them up with free offices or something because my GP waitlist is nearly 1 month long) build more social housing (don’t just give HTB incentives as they dont work well) and if there’s any left over lump it inot that investment fund thing we have now.
All these stupid tax breaks they are giving us will do nothing in the short term, and in the long term will put us in a worse position for the pension time bomb.
mister1bollock on
Aw boys just think of the bike sheds we’ll be able to make.
dropthecoin on
A surplus like this would have unthinkable years ago. It’s a welcome from the grim days of budgets when you’d be bracing yourself of what would be cut, or which taxes would be raised.
Now we are running a surplus and people, lots of them here, still find loads to moan about with it. This sub sometimes gives a vibe that we have a swathe of people who only really remember positive budgets and situations similar to this. Not the dreaded budgets of old. And so they moan for moaning sake.
It honestly boggles the mind.
stevewithcats on
How much each?
funpubquiz on
That’s a lot of money to give to someone who didn’t finish college and never had a real job.
Willing-Departure115 on
The issue with investing it all is that the economy is running at capacity. If we said “let’s build x”, who is going to build it who isn’t already tied up in other projects? So you end up raising the price of things without necessarily getting a lot of extra work done.
There are ways to increase capacity (see gulf states or Australia or Canada, which import workers at great expense) but they are themselves complex and expensive to do (would we live with having an army of Indian / Asian temporary workers living in mass temporary accommodation to build houses for us…?).
Blowing the surpluses on narrowing the tax base seems a poor idea, given how much of the surplus is one off or transient in nature.
We should invest, grow the money, and deploy it as stimulus the next time there’s a recession. Keep construction workers going instead of emigrating next time.
barker505 on
Just give us a tax break please. You just know they’d misspend it themselves
Wookie_EU on
Out of curiosity, whats our outstanding bailout balance?
Maddie266 on
In 1999 total tax receipts were around 23 billion for comparison. The surplus for this year equals the total tax take from 25 years ago.
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Great job everyone. Couldn’t have done it without ye.
Housing, infrastructure and pay for Doctors and Nurses.
Please.
Between corporate tax and Apple windfall, this is mostly once off.
Surely it’s got to go to infrastructure, rain day funds and debt paydown. Anything else would overheat the economy
So they’re going to mass build social housing, invest in rail and public transport, and fix our health system….right?
I’ll take my share in small non sequemtial unmarked bills please.
Eat shit, scoliosis kids!
More houses then?
Fix the HSE then?
Eliminate USC then?
Better childcare provisions then?
Finish the fucking NCH then?
LOL jk
That’s about €5000 for every single person in Ireland.
INVEST IN INFRASTRUCTURE YOU PRICKS!
Are Apple just going to write the gov a cheque and that’s that? I suspected there would be another 4 rounds of appeals then a 10 year repayment plan meaning by the time we get 13bn, it will buy 2 Guinness in Temple Bar.
Macarons and bike sheds for everyone!!
Mad that this money is sat somewhere not being used for anything, a colossal act of irresponsibility, incompetence and dereliction of duty.
1 million Euro bike sheds for all!!
Sweet now stop taxing me so much or build infrastructure fast
Cut the ‘temporary’ usc
Enough to pay France to build us a 4GW nuclear power station beside where Moneypoint is right now.
They’re going to do something stupid with this, we don’t need any more tax breaks.
Increase nurses,doctors, teachers and gardai’s pay, clear the waitlist for kids with scoliosis, train more dentists, orthodontists and GPs (literally set them up with free offices or something because my GP waitlist is nearly 1 month long) build more social housing (don’t just give HTB incentives as they dont work well) and if there’s any left over lump it inot that investment fund thing we have now.
All these stupid tax breaks they are giving us will do nothing in the short term, and in the long term will put us in a worse position for the pension time bomb.
Aw boys just think of the bike sheds we’ll be able to make.
A surplus like this would have unthinkable years ago. It’s a welcome from the grim days of budgets when you’d be bracing yourself of what would be cut, or which taxes would be raised.
Now we are running a surplus and people, lots of them here, still find loads to moan about with it. This sub sometimes gives a vibe that we have a swathe of people who only really remember positive budgets and situations similar to this. Not the dreaded budgets of old. And so they moan for moaning sake.
It honestly boggles the mind.
How much each?
That’s a lot of money to give to someone who didn’t finish college and never had a real job.
The issue with investing it all is that the economy is running at capacity. If we said “let’s build x”, who is going to build it who isn’t already tied up in other projects? So you end up raising the price of things without necessarily getting a lot of extra work done.
There are ways to increase capacity (see gulf states or Australia or Canada, which import workers at great expense) but they are themselves complex and expensive to do (would we live with having an army of Indian / Asian temporary workers living in mass temporary accommodation to build houses for us…?).
Blowing the surpluses on narrowing the tax base seems a poor idea, given how much of the surplus is one off or transient in nature.
We should invest, grow the money, and deploy it as stimulus the next time there’s a recession. Keep construction workers going instead of emigrating next time.
Just give us a tax break please. You just know they’d misspend it themselves
Out of curiosity, whats our outstanding bailout balance?
In 1999 total tax receipts were around 23 billion for comparison. The surplus for this year equals the total tax take from 25 years ago.