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1. #BIG DAY More than 60,000 students are set to pick up their Junior Cert results today. There was an increase this year in the numbers taking up higher level maths.
2. #STRIKE BACK Barack Obama’s set to lay out his plan to tackle Islamic State today. The speech will give the US President a chance to redress criticism that he has been slow to respond to the radical group’s rise in Syria and Iraq.
3. #MICHAELA The family of Michaela McAreavey have revealed that new information has come to light in the investigation into her murder. Reports in Mauritius say four new suspects have been identified.
4. #BREAKTHROUGH A group of 45 UN peacekeepers from Fiji taken hostage in the Golan Heights two weeks ago by rebels will be released soon, according to the Fiji government.
5. #LAST DITCH The leaders of Britain’s three main political parties have announced a last-minute trip to Scotland today to boost the campaign against independence after a surge in support for the ‘yes’ side.
6. #BLAZE Dublin firefighters battled a blaze in Temple Bar overnight. It was at a disused building next to the busy Gogarty’s pub. There are no reports of injuries.
7. #LIMERICK FIGHTS BACK RTÉ has admitted it should have given more coverage to Limerick’s ‘giant granny’ event at the weekend, the Limerick Leader reports. It follows local criticism of the national broadcaster.
8. #CRUNCHING IT Need to catch-up on what happened last night at Apple’s big press event? Check our run-down for all the goings-on (including the big surprise announcement from U2).
9. #THE OUTLOOK: Finally, we’re in for another pleasant mid-September day. Top temperatures of 21 degrees, with the best conditions in the West.
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“At a cost of 32 million to the exchequer” Should say at a cost of 32 million to PRSI paying employees and self employed.
Government is very quick to take our taxes but they nearly begrudge us getting anything back for it, lol
@Jp Vaughan: its not about what you can get back but what more will go into their pay off’ s and their pension. That gives them something to smile about.
@Jp Vaughan: I was thinking the very same thing!!
“your PRSI” – therefore the scale & polish is not ‘free’ rather it has been ‘pre-paid’ When you get something from the government it is not free, it has been paid for by taxpayers
@Peter Buchanan: absolutely and remember we used to get money off fillings and extractions but the government annihilated those services in 2010 just leaving the dental check up.. cute wh0res are FGFF, we are paying for these services out of our own money anyway
After loosing my job in 2013 I went back to college to educate and up skill myself, completed a 4 year degree and gained immediate full time employment, to told at the dentist you need to be in 5 years full time employment to avail of the free visit, I guess the previous 19 years employment didn’t count.
@Lobert Rester: Well done you and best wishes for the future.
The ironic thing is that a workshy politician only has to spend a few months to qualify for pension and benefits.
Good old Ireland.
Lisa need braces
@Faixa Roxa: dental plan
@Faixa Roxa: €4000-5000
@Faixa Roxa: €4000-5000
@Faixa Roxa: some orthodontists do payment plans.. ring around, I did
@Faixa Roxa: these braces are painless, invisible and periodically emit a delightful burst of Calvin Klein “obsession ” for teeth..
@dan: we don’t have a dental plan right now..
” these braces predate stainless steel, so you can’t get them wet”
@Faixa Roxa: for God’s sake will someone please think of the children
So government provides people services with their (the people’s) own money – (while conveniently not mentioning the billions they waste on pet projects and privatising national resources) – and pats themselves on the back for being generous #voteffg
Not really free.
@Paul Freeman: agreed still cost me €30 for my ‘free’ scale and polish
If you are in a position get any part of it back from the taxes youve paid, all the better, but don’t put off that trip to the dentist any longer; untreated periodontal disease is linked to multiple other problems from Alzheimer’s disease to male infertility. (I’m a sufferer, with no connections to a dentist apart from the bills!)
@Yam Crum: well done for highlighting the links between gum disease & our general health
Free dental check is loved by dentists to get you in the door so that further expensive treatment can be identified and recommended.
@Tim McCormack29: you show your dentist by staying home with rotten teeth. That’ll show the money grabbers.
@Tim McCormack29: The kind of freebie known in many professions as “the sprat to catch a mackerel” :-)
@Tim McCormack29: nonsense. A dentist isn’t going to make up treatment for anybody
@John Paul: Not true.. Panorama in the UK asked people to get a check up and they were first checked that they did not need any work..
Some dentists found work that “needed” to be done.
Only 4,422 people claiming the medical devices …
Have they not heard about it?
@Rob Cleary: They have but there’s a lot who are working who don’t qualify due to their PRSI status such as civil and public servants on older pay arrangements.
@Belebop: sorry what?
@Rob Cleary: Did you not know? There’s thousands of public, semi state and civil servants who pay either partial or no PRSI. Their jobs were seen as jobs for life back in the day, therefore no requirement to contribute. If they got sick they would get full pay, reducing as per length of illness it was part of their service contracts. Sounds great but in reality long term illness led to many retuning to little or no pay for weeks. The system was abolished in recent years with changes to the pay scales of new entrants to the service. All pre1995 and most post 95 pay no PRSI, reducing to a small number of post 2003 workers. Everyone after that pays PRSI so can avail of the schemes.
@Belebop: sorry what, can you speak up?
It is great to finally get something back in direct relation to the PRSI taxes taken out every month.
Crumbs from the swill trough to keep the peasants happy while the pigs bury their snouts .
They base it on your peso payments from two years ago, don’t they?
So your payments in the last year are. It counted. If you were out of work or contracting, then tough, gotta pay up yourself.
Can my wife claim from my PRSI?
@Harry Trafford: yes
Everyone should take advantage of this its good to get something back.
https://www.sisuclinic.com/blogs/teeth-whitening-dublin-best-and-cheapest
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