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1.5 Billion savings and no cuts needed....

  • 01-11-2010 9:44pm
    #1
    tails_naf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭


    I posted this in another thread, but posting here again to see if anyone can answer 'why not'?



    Primetime reported a few months back that there was approx 2billion in fraud each year when it came to social welfare.

    The lads who were caught (less than 100 people a year) got a slap on the wrist - one guy who defrauded the state of 30k was made pay back just 2 k - so its win win.

    Seriously, find a few fraudsters, big and small, punish them very hard, make them pay back 10x, split rocks for a year, who cares, make examples of them!

    at least 1.5 billion saved a year, every year...and no cuts at all.....why the hell are we not getting tough on this sort of thing?!


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  • #2
    RichardAnd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    what people get away with in this country is nothing short of amazing sometimes. I used to work for the PS and whilst I was there, there was a member of staff who was caught taking bribes to expedite cases for certain individuals whilst allowing others to get "help up". It was proven that he took 10k over a few years but, according to others in the department, the real figure of his intake was several times that.

    His punishment? Well he was court ordered to pay back the 10k over two years in instalments and...well that's it really. But the real icing on the cake was that he was allowed to keep his job and remain in the position he had been in before he was caught which pcame with a salary of something close to 60k a year.

    Blame the government, blame the banks or blame whomever you wish but things like this happening are symptoms of a larger problem with Irish society. Perhaps, if chancers are punished rather than praised, we might get somewhere but untill then, expect our current situation to repeat itself once every generation, or there abouts.


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