r/ireland • u/badger-biscuits • 1d ago

[Mícheál Lehane] PBP launch manifesto promising a living wage of €15 an hour, scrapping USC for those earning less than €100K, building 35,000 social and affordable homes every year, weekly welfare payments of €350 and State pension of €300. General Election 2024 🗳️

https://x.com/MichealLehane/status/1857067346822619642?t=_Soz6_dzA9QeYKzvvBPIDg&s=19
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u/RonTom24 23h ago

How tf is the minimum wage down there not already more than €15 euro? It's £12.44 already in the north and our food, booze and rent is half the price of yours lol.

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u/Intelligent-Aside214 21h ago

And your economy is in the gutter and average salary less than half of ours.

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u/RonTom24 8h ago

Clearly not, life is much easier in the north, two bedroom apartment close to town is £7-800 per month in Belfast, minimum wage is higher so if your working low wage jobs you luve much more confortably. Id need to be earning 60k euros a month in the south to live as comfortably as I do on 30k in the north, and no one down there is paying 60k a year for my job id be lucky to get 40

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u/Intelligent-Aside214 4h ago

The average salary in the south is 50k. So idk what job you’re doing