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AIB bank fees are much more than that. They robbed €170 of me (fees) for no reason. I asked them why they are taking €170 out of my funds they said it was for fees but that is so wrong as i paid for their fees before i took all my funds out of my account. I changed banks because of this problem and i will never go back to aib, they are a rubbish bank. I still get calls from them saying that i owe them €75 for fees even tho i haven't use it over 4 months. It will be closed down in 2 months so i won't have to worry anymore. At the end of the day my new bank has less fees for me to pay which i am happy about
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Thank you for the tip, however, most of the item you do not need because they are unhealthy. Shocking but orange juice is super unhealthy (not the original) the shop one. It is full with sugar. It is better to buy and eat 1 orange than to drink orange juice because of the fiber. Nowdays because of the inconvenience we have everything but not everything is good for you. Which makes humans buy more than they need and have more waste.
Revlout is a fantastic forward thinking online bank, Miles ahead of its traditional Irish counterparts. The 2% instant access savings account is a very nice addition also
Paying a larger deposit will still have the effect of taking out a smaller mortgage overall though, which lessens the emotional & financial burden in the long run. Also, with house prices so high, most buyers need a larger deposit to even qualify based on the 3.5x annual income rule
This is the issue Inflation might be slowing,but it is still lower inflation on higher prices Ryanair example, 30% higher flight prices - prices when they get to a high level never really fall back to the prices they were pre covid The same will happen in all markets - groceries, electricity ( will never fall by 80%) , construction costs We have reached a new level of costs
Ive just bought a property in dowra tullantanty. Im really concerned as i didn't realize i needed to finance the refurbishment upfront. I dont know what to do
Just a gentle reminder to RTE to maybe ease off on the bias towards Naz.i Is.raeli and Naz.i Am.erica on its continued genocide of Palestinians. We are listening to radio one, especially drivetime and its disgusting to listen to.
if you have an old, not smart meter, when you produce more than you use the meter spins backwards, so although you don't get money for the excess units you get credit at the rate you buy units. whereas with the smart meter you need to switch suppliers to get a decent tariff. but I haven't seen a tariff that pays more than 35% if the price your buying at. I'm not a conspiracy nut check with people on old meters and look up tariffs.
I love a no spend day ! I do at least a couple each week. I also did a no spend lent ! Just food and petrol. Tough going but a lot of fun. Im going to do it every year ! Santis is an inspiration to us all !
Put solar on the roof if the electricity is so expensive... Don't you have an electricity market where prices are set by the hour depending on availability?
The first contributor is incorrect..Norway are swimming in oil so they can afford to have cheap electricity...unlike the Irish government gave away our oil and gas...just more propoganda from the establishment and cannot be bothered watching more
Btw, going 100% electric for my home tripled my electricity usage. My advice is to put up as many panels as you can afford. The panels are cheap. Putting people on the roof isn't.
I installed them and it's offset 36% of my energy usage. All my energy usage is electric - including for heating and transport, so that's a big impact. But it doesn't come anywhere close to covering winter. Be nice to see some home wind generation options.
Good questions and thanks for the info provided. In my opinion grants in Ireland to put solar panels are too low, I heard from people living in Italy, they can get up to 110% refund from government to making your home more energy efficient. Also there is more sun in Italy so people have more return on their investments. Not sure why Irish government cannot do the same, especially if to take into consideration that Ireland is doing much better financially than Italy (gdp per capita for example, budget surplus, tax revenues beating all time high records).
The only way that prices will reduce is if the government legislate, that is tell the companies this is the unit price you are going to be allowed to charge. A new energy minister is needed so that Eamon Ryan's portfolio is reduced and not a member of the Green Party as they seem even more oblivious to the problems of high energy prices than the other parties. Also and I'm not being racist here but with the parties bleating on about reducing our carbon emissions with legally binding targets is it wise to bring in an extra 70,000 plus people? We already had a housing crisis which is now even worse. Ireland's infrastructure and services can not cope with the demands. For all the Governments bravado about increased supply and build modular homes very little has been done and the Government is in the middle of taxation bonanza and surplus. Put the money to use invest in infrastructure responsibly, we don't need another children's hospital fiasco where it has been talked about for years, tendered for and cost over runs of a billion plus euro's and increasing is the result.
Luckily my aunt left me two houses I live in one and rent the other. I think its important interest rates stay high to kerb inflation. I salute all the mortgage holders. I know its painful but its for the best for everyone.
Current electricity costs are being driven up mostly by fuel prices, If we switch to Nuclear power and give greater incentives to buy electric cars (including subsidising and prioritising lithium battery production) this problem will subside substantially over time. Also, many countries are going for the practical short term measures of taxing fossil fuel company profits to discourage extortionate profiteering Overall though, Society’s rejection of Nuclear power was a massive mistake, and the environment has payed dearly for it as we continue to rely on fossil fuels for our electricity.
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I just read your article stating that you believe it is justified for residential energy bills to remain high. You primarily justify this by saying that Ireland gets 75% of its natural gas from the UK and that it is more expensive there than the global market price. This is a load of nonsense. We live in a market economy, the UK charges more because they know we will still buy from them. The other thing is that Irish energy companies are realizing huge profits as of September 2021 and they like that, they don't really care about the population, as we will still have to buy expensive energy. You could say that they are colluding with each other. This issue should be solved at the state level and solutions should be sought to help Ireland break away from its dependence on British energy and instead try to secure its energy needs through other channels. A quick and temporary solution could be LNG gas shipments via water. In the meantime, other alternatives and channels can be sought, which would take time to establish. You also wrote that Irish energy providers had already purchased gas supplies at a time when prices were very high. By saying this, you could also say that we, the end-users, should pay for the mistakes made by big companies. It must be understood that in a market economy, there is not only profit but also losses, if market players make bad decisions, they should take responsibility and not collude with big companies to keep prices high.
I am a Canadian, have been to Belfast and Dublin, and have many Irish friends, many who have returned home. I just returned from a June vacation to Czech, Austria, and the UK, and witnessed first-hand the insanity of disastrous EU energy policies enacted over the past decade-plus. To really grasp this problem, one has to connect the dots that have put the entire Euro-zone into this current predicament. 1) Before departing from office, Margaret Thatcher stated that she felt the EU would be better served by a non-unified Germany--that a combined East-West Germany would constitute too large a voting block within the EU, swaying policy and without sufficient ballast to offset. Especially with the departure of the UK post-Brexit, this dominance has only been increased. 2) During the 1980s, in the leadup to the fall of the Berlin Wall, anti-nuclear sentiment was the strongest around the world, such as protests against cruise missile testing in Western Canada, and deployment of Intermediate range nuclear missiles (Pershing IIs) in Europe. 3) The Anti-nuclear movement turned their attention to all things nuclear, starting with the Green party in Germany. Focusing on turning public opinion, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the German Green party directed their ire on "nuclear waste" and used the Chernobyl incident (which was really blamed on poor management and old reactor technology) as the rationale for being the anti-nuclear party. Ultimately, "climate change" expanded its campaign against all fossil fuels. 4) For most of the past twenty years, the German ruling party has been made of a 20-25% minority voting block of Green reps, who have driven a very staunch anti-nuclear policy, both for Germany, and the EU. To a lesser extent, this also applies to Austria, and has permeated the EU and member nations. As a result, the Green party has held the balance of power, and most government coalitions have had to cater to Green-party promoted policies which have affected the entire continent 5) The EU is heavily taxed and regulated. The cost statistics surrounding energy have been skewed in favor of renewables, by: a) heavily subsidizing solar and wind farm, and failing to take into account all input costs relating to "renewables" b) heavily taxing and regulating nuclear power, driving up the base cost of nuclear c) categorizing power generation via gas and nuclear (the two cleanest power sources, it should be noted) as "non-renewable" d) continuing to utilize coal generation (the dirtiest power source, next to charcoal and wood) e) as wind and solar are not constant sources of power, coal plants can not be "turned off" when wind and solar finally come on-line, but the carbon produced when these coal plants are idled to sweep the true carbon cost of maintaining coal plants for power production. Wind and Solar are heavily subsidized, and despite that contribute to higher power costs. f) regardless of investment level, renewables will never supply more than a minority of power demand, and are intermittent at best. Notions of storing massive amounts of power using large-scale batteries will never be economic, nor will the raw materials to make such batteries on a global basis ever be remotely feasible 6) Irish will know, but an interview yesterday online quoted a newscaster whose utility bill would triple, from 135 to 450 pounds for a two-level flat with garden in London, if his 2021 contract were renewed today. This will drive the UK and EU into a prolonged recession, and bankrupt pensioners and those on fixed incomes. Many businesses will have to shut down or curtail operations. A continent-wide recession is inevitable, and those in central or eastern Europe may freeze. 7) I travelled by road from Czech to Austria, on my way to Vienna. When I crossed over, I saw a sea of wind-mills, as far as the eye could see, for miles on either side of the motorway. Heavily subsidized wind farms, that are mineral and carbon intensive to manufacture, install, and maintain. Solar farms are heavily reliant on silver and rare-earth minerals that either don't exist in world supply, or come mainly from Russia or China. Off-shore power-grids or connecting countries with long-distance undersea power cables that require a mountain of copper, for which world mine supply does not exist, or is increasingly controlled by China. 8) Did you know Austria went to the trouble of building a nuclear power plant but never put it to use and it is only being used as a museum for tours, and not since before Covid? from the website: "The Nuclear Power Plant Zwentendorf: Austrian contemporary history and a lesson in Austrian politics. Zwentendorf is the world’s only nuclear power plant to have been completed but never put into operation due to the outcome of a national referendum." The Austrians are actually boasting about not using a proper power source!!!! 9) Modern nuclear reactors are either smaller and more affordable (SMR or Small Modular Reactor tech) or Thorium reactors, which were perfected almost fifty years ago, are failsafe and cannot "melt-down", and produce zero weapons-grade uranium and consume its own waste (Thorium reactors). Thorium is plentiful and truly is the way of the future, but the Green movement refuses to allow this or permit its discussion on its own merit as the best green power source. 10) Coal production releases more radioactivity than nuclear production, whose waste is contained entirely within the waste itself. Any other power source has waste along its entire chain of production. Coal contains radioactive elements within itself, and the burning of coal releases uncontrolled radioactivity contained within the ash into the atmosphere. 11) The head-long rush towards "renewables" from listening to Green zealots which includes Greta Thunberg, has resulted in very high power costs, no reduction in net carbon emissions, and continued use of coal, as a result of shutting down nuclear, and continuing to utilize coal. Continued use of coal is non-sensical and prevents carbon emissions from falling. The elimination of coal burning is imperative if the world is to make any progress on carbon emissions. 12) Failing to heed warnings from both within the EU (countries such as Poland and Czech which are friendlier towards nuclear, and which don't receive much sun nor wind) and the USA that they were becoming too heavily reliant on Russia for gas for essential power generation, the EU (and UK) are in a heap of trouble, for several years. Gas is the next greenest power source to nuclear, but would have been more secure if LNG was utilized instead of using cheap Russian gas, which has now been weaponized. 13) Electric cars and vehicles do NOT help if the power generation ultimately comes from a power source that is combustion and requires carbon. Even solar and wind power ultimately require production, transport, service, maintenance and replacement that are carbon intensive, and these must be factored in. In fact, EVs in the EU anywhere but France are net carbon producers as most of the power in the EU is from dirty power sources, with frictional power losses all the way from power-plants, power transmission, to charging station. Ironically, hybrid vehicles would be far more cost effective and benefit carbon emissions far more as long as coal plants makes up ANY power generation in the EU. EVs are only net-positive if the power-source is geothermal (Iceland), hydroelectric (BC or Quebec, Canada) or the majority solar or wind (nowhere). Water shortages such as now in the USA prevent dams from generating any power whatsoever. 14) Gas reserve storage facilities have been closed or sold off in the UK over the past decade, and to a lesser extent in the EU. There is minimal storage capacity in Ireland. 15) Importation of power from France is ultimately nuclear anyways, as France generates 70+% of their power from nuclear. One must understand the full history of the past thirty years to understand the magnitude of the problem now facing the EU. Unfortunately, the problem has been twenty, if not thirty years in the making, and anyone who has voted "Green" in Germany, Austria, and the EU in general is implicitly to blame for the energy crisis that is now facing the continent. The EU and UK are going to be in a heap of trouble, until the majority of the electorate realize and wake up to the fact that the anti-nuclear zealotry, and corresponding over-commitment to Russian gas without regard to supply-strangulation and geopolitical risks, has created a horrendous problem of the EU's own making. Conservation will only go so far. Ultimately power needs to come from somewhere, for residential use and also to drive industry and the economy. Currently as it stands, Europe will freeze, or there will be no jobs. As commentators have stated, even if there is a mild winter for 2022-23, this leaves reserves at next to nothing going into spring 2023. The cycle will repeat for the winter of 2023-24, as supplies of energy (of any sort) can not come back online quickly enough, unless the EU caves to Russia and begins importing once again, contrary to the current sanctions. More pain will be felt, before there is any relief.
The green energy sources are driving up the energy costs because of the massive new infrastructure needs to be built . Tell the truth punk . The government closing plants us driving up the cost its partly perpetrated by the government
Seems like the 2% you get back on Airtricity (with Permanent TSB) wouldn't really generate much savings when you consider how expensive Airtricity is in the first place. They have always been far more expensive than competitors any time I look.
Hi Bee - SSE does tend to be a bit more expensive at times alright so you'd need to do your sums! However SSE has excellent customer service, supplies green energy and does have some very competitive deals from time to time >Daragh
