lol :dOriginally Posted by fluffybiscuits
you are being too polite
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
lol :dyou are being too polite
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
Burton is careering to the right. A special dispensation for the rich to voluntarily return unneeded benefits *as if* and a plan to put up PRSI - which really is "a tax on work" and far more regressive than the Household Charge - all in the same week.
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
Just been watching the pathetic "Irelands Dole cheats" on TV3 and as investigative journalism goes its scraping the barrell looking for information. A couple of blacked out faces with voice overs from someone sounding like Batman with a cold talking about how they are scamming the system. Sensationalist and pathetic as ever, good thing TV3 is commercially funded. Anyways the programme appeared to be blamed O Cuiv for the ******* ups in the welfare system and then went off on a tangent about some bloke living in Oz claiming thousands and then some other random irrelevant facts. Joan the moan was on waffling as per usual...
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I need you all, everybody, start dreaming of it
And take your step that’s gonna make a difference and change your world
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
Joan Burton has promised to maintain core social welfare rates in December's Budget.
Plenty of wriggle room there.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/1012/soc...re-budget.htmlMs Burton said this was in line with what the Government had promised last year.
However, she did not clarify what she considered to be core social welfare rates.
Ms Burton spent the morning in Dublin listening to 31 voluntary and community organisations who were outlining their concerns ahead of the Budget.
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
Was she feeling guilty after meeting all those organisations?
- Hotel FMCause I can’t change, I can’t change the world alone
I need you all, everybody, start dreaming of it
And take your step that’s gonna make a difference and change your world
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
Figures from Joan Burton in the Dáil today show over twice as many cases of departmental error as there are cases of fraud.
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
Could you tell us the figures she gave?
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
Breakdown 2011 overpayment cases:
Fraud - 20,585
Non-fraud [error] - 42,354
Estate - 371. (where undisclosed means by customers (usually pensioners) come to light after their deaths.)
That''s a total of just 63,310 overpayments out of the 447,100 unemployed in 2011.
Which leaves us with the final figure of 99% of comments about welfare & unemployment are utter *****.....
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
Notice people signing on the live register are "customers" now too
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Maidir Le: Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
Thought I recognised Ivor Calley and Sean Fitzpatrick even with the disguises.
Think National. Act Local. Oh- and superstition is just the dark matter of human history.
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
Joan has an ally
http://www.independent.ie/national-n...n-3290687.htmlLABOUR Party chairperson Colm Keaveney has warned that the Government needs to recognise that middle- Ireland's "capacity to take further pain is declining".
Mr Keaveney said future Budgets had to make radical decisions such as recognising that the era of "welfare for life" was at an end -- and, at the other end of the scale, targeting high-profile tax exiles who pay no tax in Ireland.
FG will slap him down for daring to mention the E word
- Friends of the Irish Environment, 28.04.2003"The land Coillte Teo is now selling for development was given to them by the State in 1988 to ensure that our woodlands were run commercially, not to enable them to sell the family silver to service bank loans".
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
She may be interested..
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...-wearing-suits
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
If The Examiner is to be believed, welfare cuts are top of the agenda for Noonan.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...et-215307.html
What will the Minister for Lifestyle Choices have to say about that? Based on past performance, 'Thank you Mr Noonan, sure they're all fraudsters anyway'.
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
I doubt Joan will have much to say Baron.
Time the Unions started defending Society
Thomas Jefferson : Banking Establishments are More Dangerous to our Liberties than Standing Armies.
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Re: Government gearing up to cut social welfare- Joan Burton wants to monitor 'suspicious bank accounts'
Did I read or hear something of Fergal Quinn wanting the internet records of welfare recipients scrutinised for words such as 'car' and 'holiday'
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