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999 – fire service – there’s a fire in my house – please hold for credit card payment clearance

^1 ^2 Yesterday in Dublin the new stealth tax of charging people for a call out of the Fire Brigade began. House fire call out will cost home owners €500 per call. But there is some irony about the Irish Insurance Federation taking a position on this. Stealing the words from Joe Higgins mouth ^3…

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Household Tax site in breach of privacy law

Press Statement: Paul Murphy MEP (Socialist Party / United Left Alliance) 4 January 2011 Household Tax site in breach of privacy law Paul Murphy MEP lodges complaint with Data Commissioner Socialist Party / United Left Alliance MEP for Dublin and anti-household tax campaigner, Paul Murphy, has lodged a complaint with the Data Commissioner about the…

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1930 companies close & 40,000 private sector jobs to go

Figures for company collapses in 2011 further testimony of the failure of austerity Government's projected savings of €185 million from cut in employer redundancy rebate indicates FG/Labour expect over 40,000 further private sector job losses  Effective state ownership via NAMA of companies like Vita Cortex should result in production being maintained and jobs saved or…

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