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Overseas Projects Given €8m!

  • 16-05-2012 11:20am
    #1
    shankespony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭


    Whats your thoughts, Mary Harney couldn't find €10m during a "celtic tiger" for a cervical vaccine to protect young girls from cancer. Should we be getting our own house in order first?

    <link added by moderator
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0516/breaking18.html
    >

    Thanks mods


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  • #2
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Links help.


  • #3
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Logical Fallacy wrote: »
    Links help.

    Golf isn't the answer to everything. Pfffttt... :mad:


  • #4
    General Relativity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭General Relativity


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Golf isn't the answer to everything. Pfffttt... :mad:

    There's very few problems you can't sort out with a 9 iron....


  • #5
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    General Relativity wrote: »
    There's very few problems you can't sort out with a 9 iron....

    The solution to many problems:pac:


  • #6
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    General Relativity wrote: »
    There's very few problems you can't sort out with a 9 iron....

    What about annoying coworkers, stupid computers, bad drivers, violent criminals, unplanned pregnancies, eh... actually you're right.

    Jesus, you've just sorted out my life for me. Kudos.


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  • #7
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    FFS - what a stupid kunt-tree

    Here I am paying tax and what do they do they send it to starving children. WTF ..


    This is why I had to downgrade from Andrex to Tesco brand bog roll which stings me arse

    starving children v's Andrex, I'll have the andrex, thanks..


  • #8
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    €2m in aid and €7m in public pay and pensions for the workers in the scheme?


  • #9
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Phill Ewinn wrote: »
    €2m in aid and €7m in public pay and pensions for the workers in the scheme?
    That's more than 8 million but yeah, something like that.


  • #10
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Seachmall wrote: »
    What about annoying coworkers, stupid computers, bad drivers, violent criminals, unplanned pregnancies, eh... actually you're right.

    Jesus, you've just sorted out my life for me. Kudos.

    You might be better off getting them to practice their swing.


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    At least they're not spending €8m on underseas projects. Like a genetic program to breed an aquatic man with gills. That would be a recipe for disaster if he escaped the program and started breeding in the wild.


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  • #12
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Deleted User wrote: »
    At least they're not spending €8m on underseas projects. Like a genetic program to breed an aquatic man with gills. That would be a recipe for disaster if he escaped the program and started breeding in the wild.

    I'd be like a cheaper real world version of waterworld.


  • #13
    golden lane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    you must give overseas aid...........it's important for those starving kids to think ireland is great...


  • #14
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    General Relativity wrote: »
    There's very few problems you can't sort out with a 9 iron....

    Algebra problems?


  • #15
    true
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭true


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    FFS - what a stupid kunt-tree

    Here I am paying tax and what do they do they send it to starving children. WTF ..

    its worse than that. The government borrows 600 million a year to give to corrupt governments and people in the third world, .......so that your children and grandchildren can have tens of billions to repay in future years because of our aid "generousity".


  • #16
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    This is coming out of the existing Irish Aid budget to invest in 'programmes aimed at tackling global hunger'.

    No doubt that a lot of exchequer funds are badly spent. Trying to help people who haven't enough food to survive seems like a good idea to me.


  • #17
    true
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭true


    dvpower wrote: »
    This is coming out of the existing Irish Aid budget to invest in 'programmes aimed at tackling global hunger'.

    No doubt that a lot of exchequer funds are badly spent. Trying to help people who haven't enough food to survive seems like a good idea to me.
    Our country gave aid to Pakistan a year or two ago - despite that country having nuclear weapons. All aid does is make public servants / governments fatter.
    If you have money to give, fine, give it.
    Its morally wrong to burden our future generations of Irish people further by giving "aid" to the third world. As Bob Geldof said, it does not work. Look at the African dictators who get chocolates and drink jetted in specially for their parties.


  • #18
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Deleted User wrote: »
    At least they're not spending €8m on underseas projects. Like a genetic program to breed an aquatic man with gills. That would be a recipe for disaster if he escaped the program and started breeding in the wild.

    "Under the sea,
    Under the sea,
    There'll be no accusations,
    Just friendly crustaceans
    Under the Seeeeeeeeeeeeea!"


  • #19
    tigger123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,554 ✭✭✭tigger123


    I'm more than happy for oversea's aid to continue, when I think of where money could be spent I think it's (morally and otherwise) better spent saving people from starving than anything else, particularly if Ireland has made previous commitments on these projects, it's only right that they be honoured.


  • #20
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    true wrote: »
    Our country gave aid to Pakistan a year or two ago - despite that country having nuclear weapons. All aid does is make public servants / governments fatter.
    If you have money to give, fine, give it.
    Yeah. In common with many countries around the world (many worse off than us), we gave some some humatarian aid to Pakistan when one fifth of the country was flooded causing $35bn of damage and the death of 2000 people.

    So far as I know it didn't go into their nuclear weapons programme.


  • #21
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    true wrote: »
    As Bob Geldof said, it does not work.
    Is this the same Bob Geldof who is a trustee of a charity that provides overseas aid? You wouldn't be misrepresenting something that Bob said, would you?


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  • #22
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    dvpower wrote: »
    Yeah. In common with many countries around the world (many worse off than us), we gave some some humatarian aid to Pakistan when one fifth of the country was flooded causing $35bn of damage and the death of 2000 people.

    So far as I know it didn't go into their nuclear weapons programme.

    Saved them having to divert funds from that and the military so? I'm glad.


  • #23
    golden lane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    true wrote: »
    its worse than that. The government borrows 600 million a year to give to corrupt governments and people in the third world, .......so that your children and grandchildren can have tens of billions to repay in future years because of our aid "generousity".

    most of europe has already mortgaged their grandchildren,......

    who cares anymore..........??????


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