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Category: Welfare

Myth of 'lavish' Social Welfare spending revisited

18/08/2009

The myth of Ireland's lavish Social Welfare rates refuses to go away - its latest proponent was Constantiv Gurdgiev on RTE's Prime Time. The myth has …

Lower Rents Still Higher Than Rent Supplement in Dublin

Nat O'Connor 18/08/2009

Nat O'Connor: Rents drop 17% over 12 months according to DAFT’s latest Rental Report. This headline will be referred to in the next Budget to …

How to distract from the main issues

Slí Eile 15/08/2009

Slí Eile: The right have uncovered evidence that, with the average rate of price deflation accelerating, the 'real' value of social welfare rates to …

Falling prices and social welfare rates

Slí Eile 13/08/2009

Slí Eile: The preoccupation of some economists and commentators with falling prices and how they impact on the 'lower income deciles' is noticeable. …

Social welfare cuts and NAMA

Peter Connell 05/08/2009

Peter Connell: Brian Lenihan is quoted in Saturday’s Irish Times as insisting that the banking crisis is ‘entirely separate’ to the financial …

Let them eat Cake

Slí Eile 04/08/2009

Slí Eile: Economics is a neutral science - don't you know. ESRI authors Anne Jennings, Seán Lyons and Richard Tol have just completed a working …

Pensions

27/07/2009

According to the Sunday Business Post yesterday, the Commission on Taxation may propose introducing a common rate for pension tax relief of around 30 …

Sarah Carey looks at economic inequality

22/07/2009

Sarah Carey has been mentioned in dispatches on PE before but, leaving aside her slightly problematical historical analysis, today she’s on the …

Mythbusters 201: Are Social Welfare Rates in Ireland high compared to elsewhere?

Slí Eile 16/07/2009

Slí Eile: A popular view that finds its way into pub conversations, page 4 of the ‘tabloids’, agonising phone-in shows, Dáil debates and …

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