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The Jobs Budget/Initiative/Stunt – a pension rip off by any other name

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

We are told that there will be a €500m package announcement today which is described as a ‘jobs initiative’. Formerly it was to be known as a ‘jobs budget’ or an ‘alternative budget’ (note that in the link there is also talk of ‘renegotiating the bailout’ – so U-Turns are becoming commonplace), this is the first Irish ‘downgrade’ in a while that hasn’t involved S&P.

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Independent: Tax relief for ‘boom buyers’ delayed

Monday, May 9, 2011

THE Government is to delay the implementation of an election promise to give up to €166 extra a month to those who bought houses during the boom. The move to help the “negative equity generation” will not now be in place until the end of the year at the earliest, the Irish Independent has learned.

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