Budget 2009/10
Just another example of how the fat cats in politics get richer. Yeah some of them take a paycut but does it really affect them?
As a current student in 3rd year I have to pay €30 a week to get to college then lunch, coffee etc.. which all in all I would say comes to €50/€60 in total a week. Now take into account printing costs, material costs, USB sticks, computers (which are essential for a computing course) and other things on and off the grant comes in very handy.
Now the decision has been made to take not only an 8.5% cut on the Back to education but also a 5% cut to the grant as well because they say that the cost of living has gone down in Ireland.
http://www.budget.gov.ie/Budgets/2010/Summary.aspx#Education
What I see from my weekly shopping is that the price of living goes up week by week and not down so you gotta ask your self does this really entice people to buy Irish???
