Labour calls for windfall tax on energy companies | Newstalk

The Labour party has called for a windfall tax on energy companies to fund a universal pay increase.

“It isn’t just a cost to the exchequer - particularly if we’re looking at negotiated pay increases - because we know that pay increases also fuel greater productivity,” Deputy Bacik told“And we know that many, many employers are struggling to recruit at present and need, in any case, to offer more pay and better conditions to attract workers to sectors like hospitality, like childcare and homecare.

Not a Labour idea.

She is just blowing her trumpet because in her eyes she still sees Labour as a relevant party, she should stop looking in the mirror and look through the window instead, washed up and heading for extinction

Unprofessional, disrespectful, dishonest, biased Irish media love Liebour because they're not SF! FG FM aka Newstalk had Ivana Backside on 🙄 Just repeating SF!

When SF proposed that it was dismissed as 'populism'.

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