PUP fraud €183k, should the guilty be stripped of citizenship?

Seems they're both from Nigeria. I'm sure there'll be cooperation with the German banks/EU to help get further into this, but for now the 2 of them have cost the state enough already, they should be sent back. No ifs, ands or buts. Imo.

How did the post office permit so many accounts to be opened.

Suggests a security flaw.

Of course they should have their citizenship and residency revoked.

Strange world that that is not a given.

These guys must be laughing at how easy it is to play the system, no wonder Nigerans are so keen to come here.

Has joe Duffy and rte been on championing this fraud yet? Asking how they are expected to live on a mere 183k over 18 months...

I can see that Duffy gobshite, having your man on and telling him " shure isnt it awful you were caught "...

They will be made heroes out of. They showed the system isnt working. Expect the freedom of the city and a free gaf if they dont already have one...

Prison and then deport ,but our current minister of justice doesn't believe in deporting foreign criminals,

Work them til they pay it all back then deport them.

The chairman as 140k or thereabouts in his arse pocket. I'd say he did alright out of the expendable gobshites (if he exists)

Yes - we give out citizenship too cheaply, should be any involvement in serious fraud etc within 10 years- out the gap

Our country is a fuc***g joke laughed at and abused by whomever lands here illegally,I’ve 2 neighbours left in the lurch by Africans as soon they got their citizenship, both chaps came in illegally- this is going on for years ,

between this and arranged false marriages, Lithuanian drug gangs, Romanian atm scammer’s, it’s about shagging time we wised up, look after IRISH homeless first, suspend foreign aid , sort out Ireland 🇮🇪 then and only then think about foreign aid, ps I don’t care what ppl think this is an honest appraisal

The problem is the racist card comes into play with all the do gooders. As you said we need to sort out are own problems with homelessness first than wasting taxpayers money on these spongers, wasters and frauds. Now not all of these immigrants are and some are hard working and want to contribute to society and the economy and integrate into our culture but for the rest.

Funny enough there was 10s of millions of euro fraudulently claimed by 1000s of Irish people with PUP . Still happening today.

Government should be rounding these people up also and have all of them in court over the next few years to recover the money.

Not funny at all

I was on PUP for about 2 weeks last April. I was taken aback at how easy it was. Basically you just needed a PPS Number.

Anybody who had have worked or lived in Ireland at any stage could have signed up for it. And could still be on it.

100% should be stripped of his citizenship, jailed, then deported.

Once someone is awarded citizenship, they're Irish.

Prosecute them as such but we also have laws about discrimination.

You can't hold a bigger threat over someone just by virtue of the fact that they were awarded citizenship.

There's literally laws against doing so.

@Tell me how How many cases are there of Irish citizens committing fraud and never is there a suggestion that they lose their citizenship?

How many cases of people coming here for international protection and asylum lied repeatedly and scammed the system ,

90 % + ?

They came here for a better life of crimes and better rewards with little or no consequences for their actions from drugs , murder ,rape , people trafficking .why shouldn't they be deported , maybe its time we ban dual citizenship from Africa and elsewhere and no option to gain citizenship in the first place.

Let blame racism how original

Pretty sure we all know or have in our own families people who have bled the state for money, houses and everything in between with extremely little chance of recompense to the taxpayer.

Can we deport them to Nigeria too?

I ask this because I have a strong feeling it would include about half of the posters on page 1 of this thread 😅

Ireland is a republic with a constitutional guarantee of equality before the law. It is fundamentally repugnant to this notion to suggest that there should be two classes of citizen, one whose citizenship can be revoked if they fail to display proper civic virtues and another whose citizenship cannot be revoked in similar circumstances. Other countries may choose have first- and second-class citizens, but we should not.