Would please explain the logic in a government that allows a state owned establishment to increase their charges on homeowners whilst also trying to find a way of curtailing the number of people who can’t afford the mortgage charge at its current level! It’s mad hatter stuff! Welcome to Ireland in wonderland!

It’s an automatic entitlement to receive child benefit, so there should be a 2 tier system.
Can anyone on this thread justify the single mother unemployed receiving the same benefit as a company director earning over 1 million. It’s absurd, keep benefit levels for those that actually need it

AIB announced yesterday that it will do a deal with people who can’t afford their full mortgage and now they’re going putting up the rates????? And just watch as the government say that their hands are tied and cannot do anything about it even though it’s state owned, useless shower of self absorbed ass holes.

I will only start to respect this government when they reduce there own wages / pensions / expenses. Reducing child allowance makes me sick , hitting the most venerable.

@rory. Agree completely. It is another form of taxation. Screwing a small minority and taking more money out of the economy.

Mike Summerbee

Commissioner Callinan will have to sit and listen today let’s hope it goes in and he starts to protect his troops wellbeing instead of being a puppet for shatter

“Today we live in a very different country, with a very different consciousness and a very different awareness. An Ireland where we have more compassion, more empathy, more insight, more heart. We do because at last we are learning those terrible lessons”. ~ Enda Kenny

On Friday it will be 4.5 years since I was locked into a backward Psychiatric unit, having reacted to “anti-depressant” medication (which can lead to suicide, violence or in my own case “mania” – there is even a Yale study to back me up on that – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11235925). Last year I got some of my records under Freedom of Information. I have experienced 4.5 years of stigma and discrimination, on and off. I was given high doses of medication long term, some of which have lawsuits against the maker. I lost my career. I no longer get a proper nights sleep. I wake up in physical pain.

I no longer take their dangerous drugs or attend Psychiatrists. And my biggest regret was ever going near one in the first place. They are (with some notable exceptions) a drug pushing cult.

So while I wasn’t subjected to slave labour and I realise what went on in the Magdalene Laundries and industrial schools is probably unimaginable, don’t be fooled into thinking we are a great, compassionate nation. Especially when it comes to mental health issues.

Basic EMPATHY and COMPASSION is lacking in some of our “mental health system”. And among family and friends. Some of what I read in my records was untrue and quite damaging emotionally. It was based on prejudice. The HEALING PROCESS has been slowed down by my treatment. How many more have gone through what I went through and far worse, including Electric shock treatment which is still used to this very day. Looking forward to changes in The Mental Health Act and for people to wake up to what is going on in Psychiatry.

[Never stop or change medication without the advice of a good doctor, due to the dangers of withdrawal]

#lightup a big reason why people have missing bulbs on their vehicles, is because the roads are in such a state with potholes etc. Some are more like lunar landings.