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DUNNES STORES HAVE decided to end its longstanding stance of shunning online sales by launching an online store.
After more than a year in production, the Irish retailer is selling women’s, men’s and children’s clothing, homewares and gifts online.
However, they have decided not to take on retail giant Tesco and other rivals, Superquinn and SuperValu, by selling their groceries online.
Customers from anywhere in the world can now log on and order Dunnes Stores products as it delivers globally.
The notoriously private family run company has over 155 stores in Ireland, the UK and Spain.
45% of the population is paying tax for
100% of the population , how about an article on that
@B-bob: I know, 55% so piss poorly paid they’re not in the tax net. What hope is there for a sustainable society with those kind of statistics.
@B-bob: Stating the obvious when around 50% of the population are either children or pensioners.
@Revolting Peasant: Those figures are off, few if any non nationals recognise the necessary to get involved with information by it The CSO of whoever. They like to bring their relatives etc to work for awfully low money. If you can snare an illegal you can pay way below the minimum wage, nor they want fair treatment on employment but they don’t practice it themselves. Now that is an area of exploitation I would like to see exposed.
@Revolting Peasant: well said. The so called middle income earners and wealth y like to think they keep us all in existence.
@B-bob: Misleading because when indirect taxes are taken account of, the bottom 10% pay the same percentage of their income (27-9%) in tax.
@Rosa Parks: The same percentage as the top 10% .
OR on the positive side – “90% of workers earn more than minimum wage!”
@John Flood: after tax there’s alot of workers on minimum wage don’t trust any government figures there records are useless to say the least!
@Gerard Heery: You might be on to something there; not trusting any government figures and being on the minimum wage are clearly correlated. Wearing a tin hat to interviews might be a factor..
@Gerard Heery: If we had a flat tax, household earners up to perhaps 30K would not pay any taxes. But that would be progressive and we aren’t progressive when it takes 21 years to get a new children’s hospital, are we?
@John Flood: There are a lot of people earning €10 or €11 per hour, just a few cents per hour more than the minimum wage.
Won’t this always be the case no matter what the minimum wage?…unless we introduce Communism. If we continue to focus on ‘the plight’ of those at the bottom of the wage league no matter what their ability or qualifications we will create wage inflation and make ourselves uncompetitive once again and push up unemployment instead.
Wouldn’t wage inflation create general inflation so there would be more money around?
@Fionn Bohane: this only works in an environment where you are not trading with other countries.
Wage inflation will increase prices and available funds WITHIN IRELAND. If prices increase in Ireland more than elsewhere, then we become less attractive for incoming tourists, incoming job expansions, and more Irish money leaves the country to buy cheaper foreign alternatives. We become less competitive relative to our neighbours. This has a downward pressure on economic activity and employment.
@Fionn Bohane: General inflation means that the money you have is worth less.
@Fionn Bohane: There would be more money around if companies paid their fair share of corporation tax instead of hiring acountants to dodge paying.
@winston smith: So we carry on as normal. What you are saying is yes they are miserable and poor but sure thats life. No sorry but that attitude will be tackled head on.
And working people can’t afford food
Why are you voting FG or FF
@Jonathan Yeo: Because there is no creditable alternative.
@Jonathan Yeo: yes no alternative.
I hate the brown envelopes corruption in FF/FG, but there is nobody else.
If SF got in I would be paying 70% in tax and would leave the country, its bad enough it’s already 55%. Yet people think you ‘deserve’ the high taxes as it’s unfair you worked that hard to earn a good living. Not to mention the amount of IRA terrorists still within the party.
Don’t even get me started on the AAA or whatever they’re called and the rest of those populist idiots.
@George Beckett: Ok your comment shows your are terrified of anything left. Thats good enough for me. They get my vote. Any party who upsets the estabishment gets my vote.
@Christopher Gardiner: I agree. I like to think I’m completely impartial, but in recent years time and time again I’ve heard only SF stand up for the rights of the people in this country in Dail Eireann. They wanted to burn the bondholders.. They want to abolish water charges. Them 2 alone are enough for me to vote for them. And if you really want to get into past crimes just look at what the current governments have done in recent years..
Dobby building nice new apartments, upon which he’ll pay no tax.
@Carl O Maoláin: What’s your point?
@Carl O Maoláin: How much tax do you think his business should pay on that property development?
@Obi: @Obi: B-bob reckons 55% of the population are not paying tax. They are living here, working here, paying taxes here every day of their lives. O’ Brien lives in Malta, pays nothing here. You know my point.
@Chef Harold: At least as much as Apple. Won’t he be creating employment for the 55% with his development?!
@Obi: Tax evasion. Thats the point/.
@Christopher Gardiner: tax avoidance you mean?
1.5% are earning under the minimum wage. So much for the moaners usual line that the drop in unemployment is all due to cheap job-activation schemes. At a maximum, only 3% of the 50% drop in unemployment can be explained by such schemes.
@Michael Doyle:are you that slow. Did you ever do a ce scheme of jobbride only to finish and be Forced by social welfare to go back on a meaningless cheap ce scheme and jobbridge. Then repeat year after year. Thats the people you call employed. 40% of those who work in this country are below the minimum wage.
@Christopher Gardiner:
Where do you get the 40% figure from. It seems quite specific, so I assume you can provide the source of the data.
My 1.5% figure is based on the survey describes in the article. 22,500 of the 155,100 on or below the minimum wage were actually below it. If 155100 is 10%, then 22,500 is 1.5%.
I’m sure it’s way more than that… and what about the people working on 0 contracts… a complete joke..
Everything is getting more expensive and the wages are getting worse. It’s an employer’s market , our health care sucks unless you are unemployed too.. you can rent or buy a house where you want to live, you’re borderline better off on the Labour than take a minimum wage or even a Euro more, rent allowance, medical card and free. College education. Country is messed up. People who are willing to work for 10 Euro or less should be rewarded with options of free education and reduced health care
@Alan Nolan: remember when you used to work and pay prsi and get healthcare too. People blaming the unemployed because the government have taken everything away bit by bit just let’s their incompetence of the hook.
@Dave Thomas: Isn’t it amazing that those who never were unfortunate to end up unemployed are the first out of the box to tell everyone the wonderful free life they have. Try living on the Fuc*ing dole and pay a mortgage and bills on 188 euro a week. They make me sick. I worked for 30 years before unemployment and its a meaning drudgery of a life depending on social welfare and Fianna Gael made life on social welfare beyond unbearable and cruel by cutting hundreds of supports overnight. Joan Burton alone destroyed the social welfare system that was built up over years. Remember you might be working now like I was but you have no idea what lies around the corner. Wait until the day you are facing a sign that says Entreo office Thats the day your life ends. They will make it their mission to destroy your life. No matter what you contributed to the system you will be treated the same as if you never worked and have to come on here and see people calling you sc^m for being unemployed. Thats the worst part. Looking at comments from people who never had to face social welfare on their high horse like saviours of the world. Be careful. Karma is a bitvh.
The spin on this article is so weird. They try to make it all sound bad. In the end of the day a large portion is part time and young people likely studying. They intentionally made it difficult to see the details. In the end of the day you will find very few people trying to live in minimum wage as the sole income to a household.
I don’t see why somebody doing an unskilled job that requires very limited education should pay above minimum wage.
@Kal Ipers: I am a student who works part time. I have rent to pay, transport costs, food costs, utility bills etc just like the rest of the population as well as having enormous fees to pay. Obviously this can’t be done on a part time minimum wage job so I have debt to pay back as well. Now tell me again how I’m an uneducated unskilled person who doesn’t deserve more than minimum wage.
@Caitriona Smith: Why would you even think you could afford to pay for college with a part time job? Just because you are going to college doesn’t mean your part time job is a skilled job. So yes I am happy to say you don’t deserve more than minimum wage unless you can explain your job requires particular levels of education and can’t be easily replaced. Skilled and unskilled labour has specific definitions. You can be a skilled cocktail maker but it is still classed as an unskilled job.
@Kal Ipers: A job is a job. And a human being is a human being. You sound like a greedy employer looking for any excuse to cut wages and people’s quality’s of life. shame on you
@UpThereAndHereAsWell: Payment for jobs is determined by avilaibility of capable workers. You are suggesting somebody flipping burgers should get paid the same as a doctor. No need to cut wages they are minimum wage jobs and the least payment allowable. Are you going to pay more for everything to deal with wage increases? Stop going to businesses that pay minimum wage?
@Kal Ipers commented: Just because someone doesn’t have a 3rd level education doesn’t mean they should be paid a crap wage. The minimum wage is set too low. I would like to see it at €12 p.h. Everybody’s job is important otherwise the position wouldn’t be there.
@Caitriona Smith: agree, everyone deserves a decent standard of living and it is impossible to have one on minimum wage or slightly above. Doesn’t matter what the level of skill is, all work is valuable, there’s a lot of people making obscene money just because they award outrageous salaries to themselves.
What are the figures for . private and public sector on minimum wage?
I would like a record kept of who the minimum wage paying employers are and for this to be public knowledge.
Also employers who use zero hour contracts need to be charge extra tax for doing so – to offset the cost to the human taxpayer.
@mursim: how do you not know already?Most retail jobs, fast-food staff, bar staff,cleaners etc… Are you going to stop using them now? Zero hour contracts have their place and have been in use for decades. Any venue has to use staff like that as the work isn’t consistent. One week the place is booked everyday and the next only one booking. Do you expect them to keep staff paid the same?
How are the CSO at maths?
@xor: Or maybe better question, how are they at honesty?
This blog shows that the bottom 10% pay more as a percentage of their income in tax including Income tax/PRSI/VAT/USC/ than the next 3 deciles individually. http://www.ronanlyons.com/2012/04/10/paying-tax-in-ireland-where-the-richest-and-poorest-pay/
And the disgusting thing about Fianna Gael is they use these figures to justify their evil existence in government. Jobs not worth a F**k. 2 bit employment with no right or proper pay. Thats what Fianna Gael calls jobs and they use fake figures to justify lies. Thats the Fianna Gael way. Lie through your teeth because they believe the Irish are dopes and believe them. Some of have ye well copped on. With your two bit job schemes taking people off the live register for 6 weeks on so called schemes to keep your buddies in jobs in training centres and those people leave with Zero from these so called schemes.
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