With all the publicity about the Water Charges that kicked in this month – there seems to have been a lot less media coverage about the upcoming 2015 Budget. Will we see more cuts in the next Budget? Budget 2015 will be announced on Tuesday October 14th. This is the second year of an October […]
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Austerity
Budget 2015 – Some Opinions
The Budget for 2015 is due to be published on 14th October 2014 – and there has already been plenty of suggestions and opinions from various sources about what the government should be doing for Budget 2015. In previous Budget forecasts , agreed with the IMF/EU , it was proposed that €2 billion worth of […]
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Centrica now own Bord Gais Energy
We have known about the selling off by the state of Bord Gais Energy for a while now – but most people in Ireland are probably not aware that it has already happened. Most of the 650,000 Bord Gais Energy customers probably haven’t noticed the privatisation of their energy supplier that is is now owned […]
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Bord Gais Eireann now called Ervia – it’s Official.
As we wrote a few weeks ago – the sale of Bord Gais Energy to Centrica will result in a name change for Bord Gais Eireann. It is now official – and “Ervia” is legally the new name of the company that is responsible for Irish Water and Gas Networks Ireland . (Gas Networks Ireland […]
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More News on State Asset Sell Off
Ireland has been “told” by the IMF/ECB to sell off state assets to help pay off debts. The sale of Bord Gais Energy to Centrica has already been agreed and should be done and dusted before the end of June. More here on Bord Gais Energy Sale ESB announced in October 2012 that it would […]
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