{"id":388,"date":"2012-04-17T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/credit-union-survey-highlights-financial-hardship-of-irish-citizens-2\/"},"modified":"2012-04-17T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:06:00","slug":"credit-union-survey-highlights-financial-hardship-of-irish-citizens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/credit-union-survey-highlights-financial-hardship-of-irish-citizens-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Union survey highlights financial hardship of Irish citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\"><strong>Credit Union survey highlights financial hardship of Irish citizens<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has said figures published today by the Irish League of Credit Unions showing the disposable income of Irish citizens are a clear illustration of the growing financial hardship facing thousands of hard pressed families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Deputy Crowe said: \u201cThe 2011 \u201cWhat\u2019s Left\u201d tracker findings show that over 1.6 million people in Ireland have now just \u20ac100 to spare at the end of each month. The Credit Union survey found that many people feel they are just \u201cliving to work\u201d, with 41% believing there is no longer a future for them or their family in Ireland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cWhat this survey also shows is that a significant percentage of our working population are struggling to keep their heads above water. Yet on the same day these findings are published, Government Ministers are telling us that householders may have to pay \u20ac300 for the installation of water meters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cOther findings contained in the survey show that 28% of people cannot afford to pay the household charge; 46% are unable to save money and that 45% are struggling with their car finances as a result of increased fuel prices and the cost of motoring in general.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cAll of this highlights the growing despair of people who are being pushed further and further into poverty yet the Government continues to impose crippling austerity measures on those who simply cannot pay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cThe Credit Union survey makes for depressing reading and it must act as a wake-up call for the Government that must prioritise its citizens instead of paying billions into toxic banks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit Union survey highlights financial hardship of Irish citizens Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has said figures published today by the Irish League of Credit Unions showing the disposable income of Irish citizens are a clear illustration of the growing financial hardship facing thousands of hard pressed families. Deputy Crowe said: \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}