href="https://www.facebook.com/austindcom">Austin O’Meara This is the worst country in the world

href="https://www.facebook.com/CelticGibson">Kevin Mahon It’s definitely messed up. The only solution is to hit the reset button and start again. No amount of tinkering around the edges will fix anything… Get out while you can.

href="https://www.facebook.com/DemocracyFreedom">Ola Bobby ”Ž1 Million people after paying bills have less than 50 euros, plus the next budgets want us to pay increasing Home & Water Taxes while the government TDs (on 1,780 euros each week) gave away 2,800 million euros to bondholders!

href="https://www.facebook.com/Tmoneynewell">Tom Newell the rich and elite fly the rest of us get tax and left to die……great country to live in

href="https://www.facebook.com/alanpbourke">Alan Bourke We kept voting them in Tom.

href="https://www.facebook.com/emma.fitzpatrick.3979">Emma Fitzpatrick I paid 2200 a month on crèche fees, my youngest is going to school in four weeks so finally, after years of ‘paying’ to work I will finally earn some money….albeit not very much. I think these headlines fuel many people’s unwillingness to work, giving them excuses

href="https://www.facebook.com/DemocracyFreedom">Ola Bobby I saw a TV3 programme couple with a child who both worked in the boom years, but when they both lost jobs moved from county Cavan to a 30 min drive outside Dublin, she got full-time work but his complete welfare was cut because she was above a certain amount, so now he minds the child & has to rely on her wages to survive. She loves her job but admitted that they were better off before she took the job. What kind of a system punishes people more for working?

href="https://www.facebook.com/wilhelmina.callaghan">Wilhelmina Callaghan Ola paying the bills? €50 euro? try neither! nor I cant afford the bills nor I can afford the basics it all goes in tax and fuel and parts for the 13yr old car,I don’t know how people can afford half a child! Never mind a whole one. I have no life, no partner nor children, I just wish I could afford to pay the mortgage, but hey the secret is a government that bring the bills down! Not anything else, child care should cost no more than 250 a month, if insurances and esb and the whole red take regulations that they put in weren’t there it would yes. why do we have to pay exorbitant prices for anything, everything even things we don’t have like roads schools and proper government ???why?

href="https://www.facebook.com/byrne.nicki">Nicki Shira Byrne Wilhelmina I agree with you. I’m
/> Single, no kids and ancient car, living in a really old flat. Work all the hours god sends and cannot afford a mortgage, never mind children! I really don’t know how anyone can afford kids nowadays. It’s so sad. Luckily I’m happy with my lot, but it’s everyone’s right to have a home and children. Sad state of affairs

href="https://www.facebook.com/DemocracyFreedom">Ola Bobby I think after the next budgets, weakened communities will have to stand up & oppose the extra Home & Water Taxes (up to 500 euros per year) or emigrate. Those are the grim choices Fine Gael & Labour are leaving families with. Better people be positive & united against than divided & fall

href="https://www.facebook.com/1patkavanagh">Pat Kavanagh Child care is now so regulated that it costs the provider a fortune to comply with everything. Room leaders must have a degree; the ratios start at 3 babies: 1 staff, as well as childcare staff you need admin staff for all the box-ticking, some places have to employ a chef to deal with HACCP (food hygiene) regulations, commercial rates, high consumption water rates, insurance, building maintenance, cleaning, garden maintenance, pest control, sanitation and waste management (inc nappy disposal) are all major contributors to the high costs. Providers know parents are struggling, but they make very little profit themselves.

href="https://www.facebook.com/eileena.fitzgerald">Fitzgerald Eileen A Childcare has always been approx. 250Euro a wk. per child.