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The Dole - 'Allowance' or 'Benefit'

Gurgle · 2009-10-30 10:17:59

I'm trying to get my head around some figures that don't seem to add up. There are as many people employed in the country now as in 2004. Then it was "Celtic Tiger Boom" time, now its "We're doomed, we're fùcked, we're broke". So off we go crunching through some numbers. The total labour market in Ireland is around 2.2…

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#32 31-10-2009 08:09PM

thebman

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Gurgle wrote: »

When you're doing a training course... like ECDL, Carpentry for Beginners... you're taken off the live register?

Are you sure about this?

Yes the government will do everything possible to keep the live register figure as low as possible to make it appear as if everything is okay.

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