DONT WORRY. ITS SORTED

5live

Minister Brendan Smith today announced the allocation of supplies of cheese to the less well off in society. I just dont know what to do with this piece of news; do i laugh or cry or emigrate. I. Just. Dont. Know. What. To. Say.:eek:

johngalway

Someone text in to a radio programme "The only free cheese is that in a mouse trap", very good

Upstream

Advisor: Minister the people are losing their jobs and their hope, they are faced with a failing economy and a budget that will make severe cuts followed by a worse budget the year after that, and the year after that, and again the year after that
What hope can we give them?

Minister: Let them eat cheese

Maybe he meant to say let them eat cheesecake???

In that case
"Off with their heads"

5live

I can see lots of cheese jokes coming;)

Upstream

5live I'm as puzzled as you are. I know there will be several people who will be glad of any free food around Christmas, but in the face of all the doom and gloom it just sounds so ineffective and far removed from the from the problems people are facing at the moment.

....

Picture the scenes in several houses arouund the country coming up to Christmas where people out of work are facing repossesion.

Bailiff: We've come to reposses your house and leave you homeless, but look, here come the St Vincent de Paul with all the free cheese you could want to eat. You'll have a great Christmas with all that cheese. Away you go now.

By the way you still owe us for all the negative equity on the house, plus interest.

...

I can see lots of cheese jokes coming

They could be very cheesey:P

BeeDI

That's what happened Biffo, the morning of the infamous Morning Ireland interview. He was after a awful feed of cheese. Nothing to do with beer.

John_F

on joe duffy now

Joe: 'free cheese is surley better than no cheese'

whelan1

what if you dont like cheese

pakalasa

whelan1 wrote: »

what if you dont like cheese

Then this country is not for you!

Corsendonk

Is this a cheese mountain?

Birdnuts

John_F wrote: »

on joe duffy now

Joe: 'free cheese is surley better than no cheese'

Another arguement for abolishing the licence fee:mad:

blue5000

What next, free wine, free crackers?:mad:
Maybe we could have a party on budget day when Micheal Lowry and Jackie Healy Rae vote against ff green coalition.

Bitten & Hisses

That cheese for the needy scheme has been there for years and IMO is quite a worthy scheme. The problem here is that oaf Smith going out making a big announcement like he's Santa.

Birdnuts

The best comment I've heard on this is "Lets pay are useless overpaid politicians in cheese" - Hear, Hear:)

glanman

Bitten & Hisses wrote: »

That cheese for the needy scheme has been there for years and IMO is quite a worthy scheme. The problem here is that oaf Smith going out making a big announcement like he's Santa.

Finally a bit of truth is spoken on this. This is not the government wasting money, this is free money for the IRISH AGRI sector from the EU. They are giving €800,000 for excess cheese to us. It is not coming from the Irish coffers and it can not be used for anything else. Yes Smith making a comment on this is stupid but the scheme is not soting us anything, the opposite infact.

Italy get €100 million from this scheme... maybe the question is how we are getting so little from this...

Muckit

glanman wrote: »

This is not the government wasting money, this is free money for the IRISH AGRI sector from the EU. They are giving €800,000 for excess cheese to us.

Maybe that's the problem with us Irish since the Celtic Tiger, we think we're too good for free cheese...:rolleyes:

whelan1

apparently this has been going on for years why make a big deal of it now ? its not as if its going to be a vote puller for the government

5live

Why Smith to do it? Shouldnt that be a statement for Coughlan as minister for social protection? When did it change from butter to cheese? Instead of buttering us up they have cheesed us off:o

johngalway

5live wrote: »

Why Smith to do it? Shouldnt that be a statement for Coughlan O'Cuiv as minister for social protection? When did it change from butter to cheese? Instead of buttering us up they have cheesed us off:o

FYP

whelan1

surely butter or milk would be better

glanman

whelan1 wrote: »

surely butter or milk would be better

its intervention stock as far as I know

tabby aspreme

glanman wrote: »

Italy get €100 million from this scheme... maybe the question is how we are getting so little from this...

thats a lot of free wine