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WHILE MOST PEOPLE would be at best ambivalent if the one and two cent coins.
But one section of society is campaigning for them to be kept – charities.
Today’s Irish Independent reports that plans to scrap the coins will go to cabinet tomorrow, after a lengthy consultation on them and a pilot scheme in Wexford already showing that life is, in fact, possible without them.
However, the Change for Charity campaign hopes that the government decides to keep the coins.
The campaign, which launched last October, has over 3000 collection receptacles all over the country in schools, shops and banks. They say that scrapping the coins could lead to the charity sector missing out on millions in revenue.
There are €35 million of these coins in people’s homes and offices in bottles and jars which will soon be of no use to anyone, so the Change For Charity campaign is encouraging people to get these coins to a collection point near them sooner rather than later.
The pilot programme in Wexford was deemed a huge success. Under the scheme, prices for cash transactions were rounded to the nearest five cent.
Individual items could stay priced as they were, but totals would be rounded up or down.
The plan is part of the National Payments Plan, drawn up to examine all methods of payment in Ireland.
The National Payments Plan, a branch of the Central Bank, says that the experiment has gone well.
“The results of the Trial were clear,” NPP Programme Manager Ronnie O’Toole said last year.
The answer from Wexford was a resounding yes.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments.
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I lived in Galway for 3 years before moving to Dublin. It rained for most of the 3 years. The difference in weather between the two cities is hard to believe.
I’m here matey. The most miserable place to be in the depths of winter. That’s why everyone drinks so much here.
Spot on Liam, there was only one sunny day in Galway this year, July 1st.`
The Independent will have a piece today saying biblical flooding is on the way, “according to expert sources”.
Who’s going to be out shopping in mantainous regions???….
* mountainous.
Stupid butty finger syndrome. ..
Tom. Most people forget that in the west, we get whats out in the atlantic first. So every storm etc has abated by the time it hits inland and the east. You’d be worse off without the west.
It’s easily been raining in Galway since the start of December, possibly getting worse, cabin fever on the way !
As long as there is no snow and ice I do not care
Spotted a great headline in the local newspaper in an episode of Mrs. Brown’s Boys, it read “More weather on the way”, reading this article I see where that humour came from.
Lousy in Galway at the minute but a brolly is pointless, windier that the aftermath of a bean fest.
It’s something to do with the weather I think
Sunny in Waterford, a lot of people shopping in t-shirts and shorts……
Go to Dublin n shop!
Last week, they told us to get ready for the coldest snap since the 60s & now this. Meanwhile, accuweather.com is predicting sunny spells & 9º in my area for Xmas Day. I really wish the media would stop trying to give people the shits.
You’ve written an article about the West with a hashtag #miserable. Bit harsh Sinead.
One day last year I went to Galway it pi ssed rain the whole day it was like winter and cold. In Dublin it was warm and sunny. For such a small island the difference in weather. The west certainly does get the worse weather in Ireland.
During the summer, I left Dublin at about 11am one morning to head to Galway and there was an 11 degree (C) difference in temperature by the time I got there. It was far warmer in Galway.
A lot if rubbish comments here I traveled from Galway to Dublin on Wednesday 9deg all the way to the midlands got to Dublin and it was monkeys next day was worse , the Atlantic breeze is warmer than any other in winter, and in Ireland history tells largest cattle owners brought there stock to Clare because it was the warmest in winter this is before is before Vikings or Brits ever landed on the island
Photos doing the rounds of snow in Lucan in the early hours of this morning
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