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Welfare payments now made to half the Irish population

Recession drives more and more into seeking state aid


Queue outside social welfare office in Dublin
Queue outside social welfare office in Dublin
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Almost half the Irish population is now in receipt of a social welfare payment from the government as the recession deepens.

New figures show that the cost to the exchequer is spiralling as long term unemployment grows.
Last year alone saw a 40 per cent increase in the total cost of payments to those on Jobseekers Allowance.

Shockingly, a third of all money spent by the Irish state in 2010 went to welfare recipients.

Figures from the Department of Social Protection confirm that a whopping $29.3billion was paid by the Irish government to welfare recipients in 2010.

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The figure is in stark contrast to the $19billion spent on the same basis at the height of the Celtic Tiger boom in 2006.

Children’s allowance payments were actually down in 2010, after a major clampdown on fraud, while pensions and other payments to older people made up 22 per cent of the 2010 expenditure.

Just under 20 per cent of the $29.billion paid went to the unemployed while 12.7 per cent went on child support payments.

The cost of the government’s Jobseekers Allowance scheme rose by $1.13billion to $3.95billion last year.

In spite of the huge sums involved, sources at the Department for Social Protection have denied there are any plans to cut unemployment benefit or other welfare payments next year.


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Throws fada and hits racist Georgie boy in the head.
A misplaced fada turns 'good man' into 'good grass' - but they're both hard to find
A troubling story from Ireland today. Five Lithuanian migrants before the courts in Lurgan, Armagh in connection with a gang rape. I've mentioned before that one in three in Irish jails is a foreign migrant, of these I suspect the Lithuanians have a particularly high index of criminality.
Just been sent the figures for immigration to Ireland for June. Sorry IC doesn't allow me to post the link. It's on the Dublin government's welfare site. In any case, seems the rate is as bad as ever, almost 6000 migrants coming in in one month. That's just about 200 A DAY foreign settlers coming in. Truly reminds me of the great land grabs of our own US history, such as the rush for the Ohio Valley in the 1780s or the Dakotas in the 1870s. Is it any wonder that you see mostly foreigners in downtown Dublin, maybe four foreigners for every Irish person? But there's also the economic impact. This is a country that's broke, that supposedly has massive unemployment. Yet it's importing thousands of foreign settlers each month--almost 1000 Poles alone. Is there any sane person who supports this--I don't mean the sirpeter and the others who just foam at the mouth. I'd like to propose a new column for Irish Central, to be written by me. Let me call it "Dumb Things The Irish Do". My first "Dumb Thing" is to import thousands of foreign settlers even though there are supposedly no jobs for them. I have enough material to keep going till 2016.
Yet another absurdity from our resident clown sirpeter aka antoman. "Maith An Féar!" means Good Grass! I guess it takes an ass to enjoy his grass. That's about all that the Irish will have left to eat soon. Serves 'em right, they allowed their rulers and betters to give away their country. So maloney, "Good Grass!"
maloney.Excellent!!Maith An Féar!! Another good Irishman willing to stand behind the Green Banner.You know the enemy.Give them no rest.
There are about 80.000 foreign migrants drawing unemployment welfare payments in Ireland. They get this regardless of how long they have worked in Ireland or how much they paid in. This is important, because many of them would have been near minimum wage while they were working, and paid little or no taxes. Their Irish employers made money off them, and then demanded that the Irish taxpayer pay for them when they were no longer of any use. The Irish government a few years back tried to implement a two year residency rule before people could draw benefits, but the bully EU shot them down. What amazes me is that no Irish politician ever reminds the EU about how much Ireland has paid out to EU migrants. I don't have time here to list all the other benefits they get. It's a vast burden on a bankrupt country, totally dead and unproductive money. They might as well make a pile of a couple billion euros, throw gasoline on it and set it alight for all the good it does to Irish society. There is of course very significant welfare fraud, by both Irish and settlers. I don't believe there has ever been a word of thanks from the governments of countries such as Poland and Latvia to Irish workers and taxpayers for giving their people jobs, housing them, teaching their children, giving them free health care, interpreting and translating for them, doling out generous welfare (maybe 20 times what they'd get in their own countries). Ungrateful Creeps.
I saw an interesting article on today's London Telegraph web site. It seems that folks in Germany are getting tired of the crime wave that has followed the lowering of border controls. It's a parallel to Ireland's migrant crisis, where fully one in three prison inmates is a foreign settler. I wonder how much bankrupt Ireland has to borrow every year to keep these foreign prisoners housed, fed and watered? Not to mention the huge costs of legal translation--these guys demand an interpreter when their cases are tried. Here's a short quote from the article: "The mayor of a German town on the Polish border has called for the reintroduction of border controls similar to those imposed recently by Denmark to combat cross-border crime. Klaus-Dieter Hubner, the mayor of Guben, claimed that since Poland joined the Schengen zone in 2007 thefts in the region have soared by 32 per cent..."
@Sirpeter-LOL! Have a good one biy.
I'm so sorry for our Ireland.... To think that my people would be content with feeding off the labor of others, is beyond me... In my 50 plus yrs in the U.S. I have one day of paid vacation, not taken one penny from unemployment, workmans comp, welfare, foodstamps, or any other "handout" program..... And factoring that I have had 4 grandchildren... without having one "son in-law".... NOT ONE OF THEM/US WENT ON THE "PLEASE FEED ME" LINE.... What has happened to PRIDE??? (Or should I say DIGNITY!!) We Irish should be better than that.... Feed your Fn selves... YOU TOO MR. Obama..... (Moneygall shite)....
Oh, just like the US
antoman.To be honest I think we will both have to wait.That passion I was talking about is still for her husband the love of her life.But you never know as two highly intelligent,good looking and modest Corkmen with a healthy disdain for everybody but Corkmen.I have no doubt these qualities could attract a certain sexy angel from the North of the country.I wouldn't write yourself off yet though.Be wide of the beors antoman they never make a choice until they see the hard drive in action and weather you can control your upload.
SirPeter..GD may have been born in America but there is a chance of it just being the after birth. America doesn't claim him nor does he represent any segment of America. I wouldn't concern myself with upsetting Irish Americans/Americans at all. Free the other hand and let it flow. Ignoring it won't make it go away. A full on wide open blitz is the only answer. I will endeavor to ratchet up my efforts in this just cause. Now let's throw the f*cks to em.
@Sirpeter-Mamaginnty have the hots for ya now and I'm forgotten.How will I and my dog get through the night on Patricks bridge.
antoman.Corkmen are good at doing it standing up.Judging by mamaginnty's fighting comments she is still a woman of passion in every way;)




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