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UK LEGISLATION WHICH attempts to override parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol without the agreement of the European Union will be published on Monday.
The bill to unilaterally change aspects of the UK’s Brexit withdrawal agreement with the EU will be presented by UK foreign secretary Liz Truss on Monday afternoon.
The protocol ensures there is no hard border on the island of Ireland by Northern Ireland effectively remaining in the EU’s single market for goods. This has created checks on trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.
Reports in UK media indicate UK prime minister Boris Johnson has been warned by Tory Eurosceptics that they will vote against the legislation if there are any attempts to water it down to make it more acceptable to Brussels.
The European Commission has repeatedly rejected UK demands that the Brexit deal be changed.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin this week said the UK’s plans to act unilaterally over the protocol would be “deeply damaging” and mark a “historic low point”.
Martin added that he disagrees with the UK government’s handling of the protocol and accused it of failing to engage with the EU.
Yesterday evening, Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill warned the UK Government against unilateral moves to change the protocol during an address to party members in Belfast.
O’Neill said: “Boris Johnson knows that to gamble the protocol is to breach international law and to jeopardise the British Government’s agreement with the EU on their withdrawal and future trading relationship, with colossal political and economic impact.
“The threat of unilateral action by the Tories to legislate and breach international law serves nobody’s interests, anywhere, at any time.”
At the same time, DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson was addressing a party meeting in Kilkeel, Co Down, where he said there is a “unity of purpose within unionism in relation to the Northern Ireland protocol”.
He added: “Even opinion polls show that the vast majority of unionists support our stance that the protocol must be resolved before devolution can be restored.”
The DUP has refused to allow the power sharing Assembly to meet or an executive to be formed as part of its protest against the protocol, which has created a trade border in the Irish Sea.
Additional reporting from Press Association
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How can people not know?
Couldn’t tell you.
Muppets :-/
Because they have plenty of disposable income and aren’t sure whether it’s more or less now than the disposable income they had in 2012.
I’d have less disposable, but I’m not starving either. Some weeks I haven’t got a cent and other weeks I do. Joys of being self employed. Feast or famine.
What I can say is I can’t seem to create savings. before the crash I could. This year is looking better than last for me, marginally. But January was very tough so far.
Joanne because some people are stupid and others were never effected by the economic down turn.
One of the biggest financial institutions in the country and yet again they get it wrong. What sort of gobshi1es are coming out with statements like this. 90% + say they do not have more disposable income in the poll.
Fecking idiots.
It’s because they’ve had tax increases like the USP and property tax and they’re paying more VAT on everything. Petrol prices keep fluctuating. They may of had an increment at work or something but you’d need a calculator to work out whether you’re better off for a lot of people. They were selling fruit and veg for 8 cent in the supermarket before Christmas. People spend their disposable income in so many different ways like. You can’t just look at the headline inflation rate.
If you’re asking them, do they feel like they have more disposable income, then it’s an easier question.
They mean ‘yes but I am not going to tell anyone that’.
I got paid yesterday after bills, petrol and food I have 0.17 left to do me til next Monday.. :)
I have 4 euro spare this week and next week
If you only have €4 to spare – does that mean you are on the dole?
Gra, I feel you there :-/ it’s a dire time :-(
No Vlad i’m in college,sorry for trying to get an education,won’t be using it in this country that’s for sure :)
Good John. We don’t need anymore whingers.
Ah college – was wondering..
Hopefully the feast will follow your famine .
Some graduates need to cop themselves on too. There is work out there. Just because it’s not in your chosen field, doesn’t mean there isn’t work out there.
On the flip side of the coin, elements of scambridge and cutting the dole to under 26′s is a disgrace.
I’m studying finance Sam,lack of work in my chosen field isn’t the problem,the country around it is.
@Sam your point is a bit stupid! If you spend 4 years in college and graduate with a degree why would you want a job in another area? If they wanted a job in another field of work that’s what they would have studied! Better off leaving where you can obtain a desired job with real prospects
Plenty of people leave college with a degree in a given area and go into a different area through necessity on leaving college. It’s not an option for everyone, nor am I saying it is, but it doesn’t always equate to leaving the country either.
They then down the line manage to get into the line of work they had originally wanted. Hardly a stupid point Pat. Common sense.
@Pat
By any chance were you born yesterday?
@Pat.
My eldest graduated from college with 2 degrees six years ago.
Because he had no practical experience he could not get a job in his chosen field of work, for over 2 years he worked for a pittance.
He chose to emigrate to Canada and within one month got a job in what he studied for, he is now very well respected and gets headhunted on a regular basis.
Sometimes you just have to take what is offered and work your way up, just because you have a degree/masters/PhD it doesn’t give you an automatic entitlement to a job in that specific area.
Know that feeling… Same every month and not even clearing all our bills
We need no poll the answer will be over 90 percent NO. How could it with Enda empty your pockets.
Don’t blame Enda, blame your lack of education and lateral thinking for your own lack of money!
I have to much money, I am known as the wolf of LONDON Derry.
Declan, your attitude is stinking and defeatist. THAT is why you don’t have disposable income.
You wish
What a stupid comment Conor
What an ignorant comment Dwayne.
You should learn your own Queen’s english! Your statement does not make any sense gramatically
More disposable income???? What!!???
Fuel costs are almost at their highest, HouseHold and Property Taxes plus I just got my Tax cert for 2014….aaaaagggghhhhh I’ll be working 2014 to hand it almost all to revenue ( aka Rothschild bondholders)
So Nigel your wages does not go towards paying nurses etc.?
Blaming a family for life’s woes shows how ignorant you are!
Connor your a dick! There are thousands of qualified,certified, well able people looking for work everyday, but there is still very little for any graduate to aspire to in this backwards country! What do you propose is done?
I’m a dick for refusing to buy into the conspiracy theory that the Rothschilds own all of our governments bonds? If you actually believe that then you are actually plain old stupid.
There are actually loads of jobs for graduates, you should try gradireland.com.
Conor, where did I say that I dont want/believe that my money is going towards paying nurses!? I also pay VHI premium which also has increased in terms if this disposable income debate.
Your level of intelligence, Conor,is akin to my 4 year old daughter and undermines the credible.contributors on these forums
Disposing of incomes via taxes austerity etc has definitely increased.
Have to laugh at them bringing in water rates. It’ll probably be cheaper to buy bottled water in aldi and wash with that! We’ll be running around in the rain with shampoo in trying to wash. I haven’t money going begging to pay water rates. They simply have to cut taxes next year or they will cripple any kind of recovery for years to come. The only way things will change now is if people have a few quid to do something with otherwise any bit of growth will disappear as soon as the water bills hit the door mats of the nation.
True baz. The country will stink to high hell when water charges come in. We’ll have to bring back public baths.
At the moment I have about €20 left at the end of every month!
After I pay for all the nights out the fancy diners I had. pay the finance off my Ferrari pay the morgage off I wake up out of the dream I was having.
Not sure how people have more disposable income. For me things are slowly getting worse. Mortgage payments over the last year or two have gone way up with variable rate hikes. Couple that with gas/electricity price hikes and petrol price increases and it’s a challenge just to make ends meet.
Never thought I’d consider it, but looking at the quality of life to be had with a job in my industry in Canada or Australia, emigration is now a very likely choice for me if I can bring myself to terms with living away from my immediate family.
@A2 – A lot of people, including myself feeling the same this year. It’s death by a 1000 cuts….
I think if you’re young, single, no kids, no mortgage, sharing a house or living at home and healthy OR middle aged, kids grown up and gone, mortgage paid, pension in the bag, then you’re fine.
If not you’re toast…………..
No, of course not. All studies are incorrect. Journal.ie readers all work in chain gangs and have to attend midnight hedge masses in order to avoid government persecution. I’ll never forget the poll that asked if people here were looking forward to Christmas…
If there wasn’t €240 plus coming out of my wages on tax every month there might be some hope of having a few spare euros! !
€240? Try €650 – €700 per month. And that’s just PAYE
We need a payslip as proof :p
I wish I only had 240e tax a month. Try nearly 1k :(
240 euro per month poor you, for gods sake you tight miserable person.
You do realise it’s all relative to what u earn. Or are you just ignorant in that way too??
Yep wife got a part time job !! Things are on the up
Whatever people do have left, the government is coming up with ways to take it! I’m paying a mortgage, apartment maintenance fee( before people comment, my decision to live in an apartment!!) property tax and will be paying water tax come the end of the year. That’s not to mention the other 10 household bills! Food is being bought in Lidl an Aldi, petrol in the cheapest garages in Dublin . The Penneys left at the end of the month go into a cookie jar. ( Which has no cookies!)
Must have done survey in Newbridge Credit Union…..
Why? I was in my local credit union last week and was shocked at the amount going into savings and Christmas clubs. I have a small loan in there and when that’s finished next month I guess I’ll have more disposable money unless I safe it there so they might be correct.
How? I pay €750 a month in tax! What a joke!
Has it INCREASED!!!!!
My credit is so bad I can’t even pay with money
Where do they get their figures from? I know mine def hasn’t improved! It’s got worse!!!!
That should just about cover the Water Rates !
Is this a survey to see if its possible to put more tax’s on our earnings.
Yes, my income has increased, but in the same time i now got pay more taxes and other things, so my monthly net is less.. :(
It did. Until I saw my Gas and Electricity bills this morning.
Being a small business owner, my income varies from month to month.
This month has been good, had over 500 euro spare.
Then Hubby’s car broke down last Friday, clutch is knackered, it’s going to cost over 800 euro.
Now I’m over 300 short……damn.
What the big print giveth, the small print taketh away.
Ha ha, you can “play it again, Sam”.
I know just how you feel! It’s always the car that trips us up financially. Just when we think we have our household budget on an even keel, something happens with the car that swallows a few hundred euro, putting us right back into the red. If I could get rid of the car altogether, I glady would. Sadly, it’s not an option due to my wife’s commute.
Hey Zozzy,
Hubby needs the car, he is our company’s sales rep.
No car, no sales.
Has it f**k.
It can only increase if you’ve started a job or had a pay rise. Price of living is still going up, elecy and gas up, and property charge paid recently ,, In reality how disposable income go up for the majority of people.
The people who said they had more must be in the pay of the CRC !
Hell no!
I loved the email I received from Electric Ireland and the recent price hike. Made themselves out to be champs by deflecting the majority of their ‘cost increases’ onto themselves until Jan 1 2014 but could no longer sustain it Ah the poor lads…
So let me get this straight, EL’s ‘costs’ go up so the bills increase while my income remains stagnant? Oh yeah you made 188m in profits after tax up until June 2013…don’t let your shareholders take the slightest hit. no that wouldn’t be fair on them..
https://www.esb.ie/main/press/pressreleaseWS.jsp?id=3234
They never once apologised for the price hike I should add..
Mine’s dropped
Considering how we are being screwed with stealth taxes and levies, I’m very suspicious of that piece of research
When you include all the hidden tax, I end up with around 40% and from that I have rent, car and utility bills to pay out. At the end I’m I’m the minus. It was never never this bad!!
It’s less than 40% you still pay tax on everything you buy with the 40% you have left :(
You’re right
Mine has since I gave up smoking 3 months ago. Saving about 60 euro a week. Might be able to afford a nice holiday this summer for once
Yes but I’m still down a good few pound from five years ago but you also have to look at it that stuff is generally a lot cheaper now than back then.
Explain that post, what items are cheaper now?
I think he’s referring to Gas , elecy, carbon tax on fuel, & groceries, Oh no hang on wait they’ve all gone up .
That’s what I thought Simon
Only stuff that’s cheaper now it’s the stuff you spend your disposable income on.
Less pay and higher bills. No!!!!
I am as skint as ever nothing has changed for me
Except LPT tax and water rates to pay soon :(
If it has, chances are you’re a politician.
Got very much worse.
Disposable income is down in recent months, but that’s soon to change. I’m going for promotion and my wife has secured a job after many months’ unemployment, roll on the good times :) :) :)
Worse than ever for the low paid !!
rent up by 8.50 per week, esb, up by about a tenner a week, water tax to come, and all the while my income is stagnant , and all to bail out the banks, speculators and the e.u., really don’t know how much more of this people can take .
Haven’t been in a pub for a couple of years, don’t smoke and have a non-existant social life. Up to about 3 years ago we did have disposable income, now we can’t make ends meet. I’d hate to be trying to live on social welfare.
Haven’t had a pay rise in four years… In that time, my taxes have gone up, my VHI’s gone up, the train’s gone up, the lecky’s gone up etc…
Much less now than I had then.
Meh… I’m always skinned.
Skinned?!
Sorry… It was SKINT – Damn iPhone autocorrect ;)
Don’t know about you … but my disposable income has increased substantially.
€500 p.a. LPT saved.
Tell the Revenue that your Local Property Tax is a “loan” at 4%.
You will get it back when this odious law is repealed.
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$300 p.a. Bin charges saved.
“Give up your ol’ bins”.
Use black bag compressor at your local petrol station for €6/bag.
or find a bin partner with an exemption!
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€700 p.a. Car Tax saved.
Only €56 p.a. for classic car tax.
Plenty classic cars available in UK because they dont have the daft Irish car tax system. Donedeal ads.
“141 and 142″ are not green jersey anyway … €1.5 billion sent out of our economy every year .. jobs, jobs!
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€500 saved in oil fill.
Fitted a solid fuel stove.
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€2500 p.a. saved in smokes.
No smokes … it wont kill you but will kill the taxman.
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€250 p.a. parking charges …
Shop out of town. Free parking.
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How to clawback the Property Tax:- http://www.facebook.com/LocalPropertyTax
My disposable income goes up and down like anyone elses.If it goes down I know I am overspending,Up and I know I am managing my money okay.I try save a bit the good months and use those funds to prop up the bad times.Sometimes at the end of a year I can be ahead a few dollars.We have two kids so we have to have a bit in reserve all the time for the unexpected expense.The idea of my disposable income going up ,that in a sense it can be spent unwisely so to speak ,is not something I can afford to do.I think it is called budgeting when you look after you money….some find that an alien idea almost.
Have a couple of quid left over each payday, able to go for a pint or two without worrying. So it appears to have gone up, mind might well have something to do with having finally moved back into the PAYE sector. Be interesting to see what the picture looks like at the end of this year.
Aics
Oops spoke too soon, mail from electric Ireland, better get a pint while I still can. The letter will not be good news possibly back to the old credit card.
That 8% must be public sector workers on incriments
We are both public servants family income down €1500pm €18K net income m
any ps in serious financial difficulty ño mention in your piece perhaps you could do a piece on the savage attack on public servants and how we have been effected. No mention of ps getting their income back.we have been screwed.
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