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THE REVENUE COMMISSIONERS have hired 453 staff to date in preparation for Brexit.
According to new figures provide by Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, 453 staff have been hired ahead of Brexit with 370 staff hired so far in 2019.
In a written Dáil reply to Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty, Minister Donohoe stated that since the start of 2019 over 600 staff have been appointed by Revenue across all areas.
He said however that “the majority of these have been assigned to customs roles or to backfill positions from which existing Revenue staff have been assigned to customs duties”.
He said: “As serving staff are taking up their new Brexit-related positions, Revenue is backfilling the vacancies created, from panels of candidates established in its general recruitment activity.”
The Minister explained: “In the period from 2017 to date, Revenue has assigned over 450 additional staff to customs related roles, deployed across a range of functions, with the majority assigned to import and export trade facilitation activities and policy and operational roles. Resources are deployed based on the evolving business needs and to tackle any risks as they emerge.
Minister Donohoe has confirmed that 281 staff have been assigned to Dublin in preparation for Brexit, including 213 in 2019.
In addition, 119 have been assigned in Munster including 104 this year with a further 40 assigned in Leinster, excluding Dublin and Louth.
In his written reply, Minister Donohoe stated that Revenue has determined that in a‘Central Case’ scenario – an orderly withdrawal of the UK from the EU, to include a transition period until the end of 2020 – an additional 600 Revenue staff would be required.
He said that in September 2018, the Government granted approval in principle for the phased recruitment of an additional 600 Revenue staff to meet the challenges posed by Brexit.
In Budget 2019, Revenue was provided with an additional €10 million pay provision, for 270 of the additional 600 staff to be recruited during 2019.
Following a Government decision in December 2018, it was agreed to accelerate Revenue’s recruitment programme in preparation for Brexit.
Minister Donohoe stated: “Revenue will continue to adjust its recruitment and training plans in response to business needs, including Brexit-related developments.”
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Regardless of your own opinions on Trump, you really need to put this in context.
There are only 23,000 registered Republican party members that can vote in the Washington DC primary, they are party insiders, a majority of those voted against Trump and not for Nikki Haley.
Trumps grassroots support comes from ordinary Americans, who like the majority of people around the world, are more concerned about their next pay check, food on their table, and a roof over their heads than politics.
While in reality, Trump may care no more about them than Biden does, from their perspective, he offers the possibility of positive change.
It’s easy to ridicule foolish Americans for voting for or being taken in by charlatans from both parties, it’s so much easier than looking closer to home.
@Dvsespaña: Trump’s support comes from far-right, white supremacists and so-called evangelicals.
And, of course, fascists in the business community.
How many old-style Republicans no longer bother to vote, or even see themselves as Republicans any more?
@Dvsespaña: he did great for the working american the last time when he tanked the economy through his botched handling of the pandemic, waisted billions in taxpayers money on a wall he lied about making mexico pay for, and left 25 million of them without health insurance after lieing about repealing and replacing obamacare. He also decimated the farming industry through his pointless tarriff wars. Turkeys voting for christmas.
@Setanta O’Toole: Can you name any economy that eventually followed the dictates of the WHO, CDC, and Pfizer and didn’t get into massive debts as a result?
I think the tanking of the US economy also continued after Trumps term in office, which is in fact permanently tanked due to the Trillions of dollars owed in debt that they can never pay back, without continuing to instigate conflicts around the world to drive it’s primary business of war and printing ecer more dollars to fund them, the USA would simply grind to a halt.
The primary business model for the USA is to support the rich and to hell with everyone else, regardless of which party holds the reins of power, because the rich fund both of them for that reason.
So you can’t blame ordinary Americans for clutching at straws..
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Trump 2024. He will win and when he does lefty heads will explode all over again.
@Alfred Ryan: yes. Very important that a proven scoundrel and disastrous former president be elected so people you don’t like get upset!
@donal O’brien: Such is the minds of children.
@Dvsespaña: Since when does any of Pfizer, WHO or CDC ‘dictate’ economics?
That would be like you giving instructions on logic and reason.
How can so many Americans be so blind, to vote for a convicted felon. It actually defies logic. Clowns voting for a Clown!!
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: US journalist Matt Taibbi (in 2017) wrote that it only matters to most right-wing voters that the ‘Other Side’ are attacked in the media they watch/read/listen to. It’s pure partisanship. It’s stirring up emotions and over-riding reason and painting the political opposition as Unamerican, Demonic, Corrupt, etc. And most of all it is controlling what their viewers/listeners/buyers see & hear.
@Numinous20111: it’s the education system.
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: how can you be so blind to the outrage that’s felt by so many. Trump is an idea and its spreading worldwide. My enemies enemy is my friend
@Kelechi Ademola: it’s their voting collage system. Really 4 states have the final say.
@Kelechi Ademola: Methinks you misspelled a word there…… You said Trump is an idea……. I think you meant Trump is an ¡d¡0t.
@Kelechi Ademola: Trump is indeed an idea. A very bad one.
Another blow for Trump’s floundering campaign.
I see he’s still mistaking Obama as the current POTUS after yet another cognitive misfire at his low energy rally in Virginia.
Speaking (more like slurring) about Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, Comrade Chump had this to say:
“I know them both very well and we will restore peace through strength. Get that war settled. It’s a bad war. And Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word”
Staggering that a 91 times indicted, civilly liable of sexual assault, cognitive cockroach like this is the best the GOP can do.
Fake news.
Obviously, it’s a stolen primary.
MSM is making up lies again.
MAGA.
Unfortunately like a lot of Lost Civilisations, America is imploding from the inside. They Lunatics are getting the keys of the kingdom.
Past Empire’s have digested themselves from within
British Empire shrinking by the minute as it grapples with borrowing to Exist. £2.8 Trillion in debt and rising
Soviet Union, corruption and finance wipeout
Roman Empire, corruption wipeout
Egyptian
Greek
Nazi
Incas
Myans and on and on. They all finally fall.
People in power, forget that the General population will only tolerate so much, corruption, poverty, poor leadership and lack of security and accountability.
They all eventually fall as the Ruling Class loose the run of themselves. This is happening as we speak in the UK, USA. All over Africa and Asia, Russia the lunatic’s are destroying democracy and depriving people of basis rights. Driving the cost of living to unsustainable levels. People will take back control.
@Max Cooper: RTE
We dont have a choice in Ireland of who to vote for as all the parties are singing from the same hymn sheet. Pity we dont have a Trump here.
@GERRY MURPHY: We don’t have the economy or population for this nonsense, and education is relatively accessible.
@GERRY MURPHY: Oh there are people that could be considered Trump-like.
Justin Barret, Gemme O’Doherty and their ilk. So far they have gotten no where in elections thankfully.
If anyone like that every runs in my Constituency I always make absolutely sure I vote all the way down to prevent them getting a sniff in. I’d recommend everyone pay attention to those candidates. Make sure you vote strategically and all the way down the ballot to prevent them getting transfers.
She’s able to cast herself as a “moderate” simply by accepting that the 2020 election was valid and that Joe Biden is the President.
She’s anti-abortion, anti-trans, anti-immigration, pro-Israel and soft on Russia. She wants to cut government spending and opposes expanding medicare.
But because she’s a little to the left of the man who defecated on Nancy Pelosi’s desk, she’s able to position herself as a moderate to traditional Republicans. That’s how low the bar is.
Nikki Gonna cruise to victory!
Haley is simply a Zionist boot licker. Despicable human, I wod rather Trump,and that saying something.
@Richard Brady: Haley is all you say.
But Trump is every bit as bad, and more.
@Richard Brady: trump of course being so famously anti-isreal during his presidency.
Come on Nikki, you can do it.
Some choice Americans have to make in November, Geno Joe or Zion Don, Hayley is the worst of the lot.
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