Seen & heard: Also in the headlines tech companies cut jobs and slow down office expansions; and ratings agency warns of possibility of bond default at Dermot Desmond-backed diamond minerCosts are rising to help network operator Eirgrid pay for managing system"imperfections" Photograph: Alan BetsonHouseholders will have to pay an extra €60 per year on their energy bills, on top of recent price rises, to cover increases to a surcharge that is added to all bills to pay towards grid...
Meanwhile in the UK, the Sunday Telegraph reports that Liz Truss, the favourite to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister, is considering introducing a 5 per cent across-the-board VAT cut as part of a package of measures to counter the cost of living crisis. The move is seen within Truss’s camp as the “nuclear option” in terms of amelioration measures, it says.
Not high enough. Needs go to €100 even darkness and then public might strip up and respond to merrionstreet crooks.
Here come all the excuses now. Another increase because Martin blew a fart in the dail.
EnoughIsEnough
Pay for this charge from their exorbitant piles of profit! Stop bleeding us dry🩸 LeoVaradkar MichealMartinTD do your bloody jobs 🤬 EnoughIsEnough ripoffireland HumanRights EnergyPrices poverty homelessness PeopleNotProfit NewRepublicNeeded GetTheFGFFgrsOut
They're pulling the piss at this stage.