To say Ireland has the right idea: Budget 2023

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I watched agog at last weeks UK mini budget...an absolute travesty.

Today was Ireland's Budget 2023, which was much more impressive.
Hightlights include:

25% reduction in childcare fees
Extension of free GP care to cover half the country
Free contraception
Large reductions in third level fees (which were already a third of the UK)
Increases in lower tax bands
Increases in all social welfare payments
Double payment of child benefit
Electricity credits of 600€ per household
Reduced tax on fuels and energy costs
Increase rent tax credits
Funding for 10,000 new social homes
Increased third level grants
Removal hospital charges and free contraception extended

It's all concentrated on the cost of living, on making things easier for people on low and average wages, looking after those with less.

It's what a budget in these times should be

Sinn Fein are very good at complaining but have very few solutions.
They haven’t had the opportunity yet.

They have had the opportunity in Northern Ireland

The culture, politics, economics and history are vastly different in Northern Ireland compared to Ireland, therefore, policies are also going to be vastly different.

The Tories for e.g. would be a catastrophe if they somehow came into power in Ireland!
There would be all-out war within the country.
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Isn't there some sort of power-sharing government in NI? Do Sinn Féin still abstain from attending parliament in Westminster?