Should long-term dole recipients be required to sign on daily at Garda station ?

Most people who are long term unemployed tend to not be so because they won't get work. They're there because they can't. A percentage of the population may have significant issues obtaining or keeping employment and there are all sorts of reasons for this ranging from geography, lack of appropriate skills, ageist recruiters ignoring applications from older job seekers (I've seen this quite a few times).

You've also a range of people who might not be technically disabled but they're unemployable or unable to hold down jobs due to minor mental health issues, learning disabilities (often undiagnosed), lack of very basic skills and so on.

You can either accept that a small % of society (and if is a small %) will always struggle to find work or, you can publish them for being poor, which seems to be where you're headed.

Be thankful that you're not in a position where you are depending on state supports, but trying to humiliate people who can't get work to somehow make them more employable makes no sense. What do you want to achieve? Starve people and drive up crime with people driven to stealing food like during the 19th century?

We do need better reskilling services and we also need to be creating a better range of jobs. We are headed towards an economy that's entirely focused on high skilled niches and the reality is not everyone fits it and an awful lot of jobs could vanish with increased automation.

Hell no bruv, There's a warrant out for me. I'm not getting arrested collecting me blooming dole!

Simi wrote: »

It always amazes me that some people feel so cheated by someone recieving €200 a week in social welfare and not by people stealing thousands through tax avoidance, companies stealing millions through creative accounting, banks making millions gambling people's money and being completely unaccountable when they lose it!

Yeah the guy getting dole when he mighn't fully deserve it is the problem

It doesn't help but seriously needs to be addressed better. Does a single person living at home with Daddy and Mammy need 200 euro a week?

Should women be having children knowing that the main reason their doing it is to get a free house and extra benefits?

Idbatterim wrote: »

Yeah and what about people sleeping on floors in a psychiatric facility last week ? Or people left on trolleys For days. Can’t lock up scum as not enough prison spaces. Many defense force personnel on a pittance. Pathetic infrastructure. It’s ok to starve these areas of funding , once the world class welfare state is maintained ?

Yeah that's totally what she said.

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Are they pedos?

IMO even the only criminals who should be forced to sign on in the garda station are genuine convicted sex offenders. The rest should be left alone.

I don't see any issue with non sex offenders being required to sign in at a station as part of a bail agreement.