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

Raconteuse · 04-11-2019 01:25AM

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

Would they not feel cheated by both though?

Twister2 · 04-11-2019 01:26AM

Give em badges and guns when they get there

Pics of suspects and put them to work

votecounts · 04-11-2019 01:28AM

Batty Boy wrote: »

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

Off to bed with you, had too much to drink.

04-11-2019 01:30AM

kowloon wrote: »

We could offer free euthanasia services for them. They'll avail of it in their masses once life is made miserable enough for them.

I think Mammy and Daddy should pay for such a service. Why should the tax payer foot the bill for Mammy and Daddy ridding themselves of their own virus?

tuxy · 04-11-2019 01:32AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I think Mammy and Daddy should pay for such a service. Why should the tax payer foot the bill for Mammy and Daddy ridding themselves of their own virus?

Their last weeks dole could cover the cost of pentobarbital.
Surely you wouldn't begrudge them that?

kowloon · 04-11-2019 01:32AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I think Mammy and Daddy should pay for such a service. Why should the tax payer foot the bill for Mammy and Daddy ridding themselves of their own virus?

What about forced euthanasia for the ones that refuse?

mydingaling2 · 04-11-2019 01:34AM

kowloon wrote: »

What about forced euthanasia for the ones that refuse?

I wouldn't be against this for women who purposely get pregnant to get a free council house

An Ri rua · 04-11-2019 01:37AM

Candie wrote: »

Obviously I don't think starving health and mental health services of funds is wise or humane. Neither do I think punishing people who are struggling on welfare or disability is wise or humane. It's not a one-or-the-other issue.

It is when your mind is small. No room for complexity or gray.....
Clearly those advocating such idiotic misuse of Garda powers have never fallen on hard times or being geographically straitjacketed by family ties, loss of a long term employer and insufficient transferrable skills.

Shame on ye, tarring all on the dole with one brush. Ye worthless heartless brain-dead sh1tehawks...

An Ri rua · 04-11-2019 01:40AM

mydingaling2 wrote: »

I wouldn't be against this for women who purposely get pregnant to get a free council house

True,sure they could put it in the same Bill as the one for hand amputation for keyboard warriors...

Danzy · 04-11-2019 01:42AM

Batty Boy wrote: »

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

Wasting the Guards time?

You are hardly serious.

dublinman1990 · 04-11-2019 01:44AM

Oh for Jaysus sake. If there was a title for the stupidest thread ever on boards.ie for 2019. This would be it.

No. People who are long-term unemployed shouldn't deserve the humiliation of going to the Guards to simply sign on for the dole. There are people out there who are literally crying trying to get a job out there in various workforces in this country. Putting them through more stress while being with the Guards is untenable IMO.

Dealing with the civil servants in the welfare office are enough at this time. If you were putting yourself in this position; you wouldn't like it either OP.

kowloon · 04-11-2019 01:48AM

mydingaling2 wrote: »

I wouldn't be against this for women who purposely get pregnant to get a free council house

Would the child be euthanised too or would they be rehomed? There's going to be a lot of them, I reckon it needs to be done in batches at some sort of specialised facility. so they're concentrated rather than spread out.

mydingaling2 · 04-11-2019 02:38AM

kowloon wrote: »

Would the child be euthanised too or would they be rehomed? There's going to be a lot of them, I reckon it needs to be done in batches at some sort of specialised facility. so they're concentrated rather than spread out.

That's just nonsense, I would make it that they do something productive with their time, particularly when the child starts school whether it be cutting grass in their local town or village, full pressure 100% to acutally get a job.

In my opinion anyone on welfare should have receipts on everything that there spending their money on, clothes, fuel, shopping and be assessed constantly.

Welfare in Ireland is far to generous. I would go as saying it should be illegal for people to have children unless they can acutally pay for them.

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Sam Quentin · 04-11-2019 02:48AM

The few I know and one in particular are chronic alcoholics,.not saying it's right or wrong but they need their welfare and have nothing else whatsoever to look forward to,.I don't even care if they drink every penny,. they are capable of nothing else,.and I feel a daily trip to the Garda station would only increase their depression which I know they live with every day.

Zirconia · 04-11-2019 02:53AM

Candie wrote: »

I don't believe in humiliating or dehumanising upeople who've fallen on hard times. Anyone could find themselves with a fork in the sugar bowl following illness or other personal disaster, or economic downturn. Save the police for the criminals.

Falling on hard times is one thing, but long term unemployment in what is effectively a full employment economy as we have now tends to indicate these are the small percentage who have no interest in working for a living and every intention of living off the rest of us.

Im specifically speaking of perpetual long term unemployment benefit claimants, not those on disability income who really should be looked after by the state, whether for permanent disability or other medical grounds, physical or mental health wise.

Raconteuse · 04-11-2019 03:17AM

Well the OP's wind-up quest was a success. Good few folk giving him the annoyed response that he wants.

Lucy8080 · 04-11-2019 03:19AM

I think the Gardai should be made to sign on everyday, to some government agency, that does full checks, to make sure they are not moonlighting or receiving other state benefits .

Let's keep 'em honest! I would hate if your honest Guard was too tired to protect the public because of his farming commitments/reps schemes. Or,too greedy.

CoBo55 · 04-11-2019 03:51AM

Batty Boy wrote: »

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

Ask some of the lads from Molex this question this time next year... Thirty to forty years service to a company and then have to answer to a Muppet like you... I hope you never have to attend that meeting because it ain't nice!!

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 04-11-2019 04:38AM

Candie wrote: »

I don't believe in humiliating or dehumanising people who've fallen on hard times. Anyone could find themselves with a fork in the sugar bowl following illness or other personal disaster, or economic downturn. Save the police for the criminals.

But those things only happen to Other PeopleTM so who cares, right?

donegal_man · 04-11-2019 04:53AM

Annasopra · 04-11-2019 08:37AM

Batty Boy wrote: »

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

You first

denis1501 · 04-11-2019 08:55AM

Back in the 80's when I was unfortunately unemployed for a while we had to sign on every week at the Garda Station. And it was pretty humiliating, that's for sure.
Nowadays you'd hardly find a station open anymore anyway, you'd be a long time waiting to sign on.

Varik · 04-11-2019 09:10AM

Would rather public work programmes, just make the money not "free".

RacoonQueen · 04-11-2019 09:43AM

There are some who have no interest in working, have never tried to work and signed on the day they turned 18. People who milk the system and it's generational, their parents did the same.

There are some who are too ill to work for physical or mental health reasons - they should be left alone and it's not that easy to get on the long term disability, they do make sure that the person is actually ill enough to be incapable of working.

There are some who are incapable of getting or holding down a job just because...someone I 'know' (I've met her a couple of times and she added me as a Facebook friend so I see all her rubbish) she is from a Dublin council estate and has a real sense of entitlement about what she 'deserves' - now in fairness she did her leaving, went to college and has worked but she seems to be incapable of holding down a job. While working she constantly complains or gets upset on Facebook about her day in work and things she did wrong etc... she definitely has some minor mental health issues and difficulties in social situations. She bounces from simple job to simple job and goes on the dole in between. Complains about how she gets the most menial tasks wrong in jobs. Plenty like her too I assume who just end up staying on the dole because working and struggling to hold down jobs is so upsetting and stressful for them.

Wanderer78 · 04-11-2019 09:52AM

Maybe we should try address the underlying issues that cause long term unemployment

is_that_so · 04-11-2019 09:59AM

Batty Boy wrote: »

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

40,000 people going into 564 Garda stations daily sounds like a brilliant plan!

Geuze · 04-11-2019 10:00AM

Batty Boy wrote: »

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

No, as JSA should be abolished, and replaced with guaranteed work for all long-term unemployed.

Sin City · 04-11-2019 10:01AM

Just round them all up and shoot the spongers
Instant zero unemployment rate then

Wanderer78 · 04-11-2019 10:02AM

Geuze wrote:

No, as JSA should be abolished, and replaced with guaranteed work for all long-term unemployed.

Guaranteed work would be a very good part of a plan, but they'd need a lot more supports also to make it happen

Wanderer78 · 04-11-2019 10:03AM

Sin City wrote:

Just round them all up and shoot the spongers Instant zero unemployment rate then

Yea, anyhow, back to reality

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

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