We're the most prolific in Europe for making babies

stevejr wrote: »

You seem to know your stuff.

And does the hightlighted text imply that the Mother with three children on average receive even less than this?

I have used an extreme example - for example the mother I used would be living in Fingal area (the highest rent assistance program in the country). The monthly assistance there is €1,050 - €24 per rent day (which I have taken to be monthly)

In every other case, the rent is lower, in several cases a mother would only be able to claim half this amount. I am using an exaggerated example to show the maximum, and when you consider that wage earners can still avail of welfare supports like family income supplements, well then the benefit to welfare recipients shrinks in comparison again.

saa wrote: »

That's not poverty, it worries me how much benefit is going to have to go in the coming years. But yet it saddens me that it doesnt seem to be a welfare system where people get just what they need to get by but because of the red tape some people who know how to work the system just end up getting what they want and others are left out.

Funny how you can sit on your sofa (something I cant even afford atm ) and get so many benefits for life and someone who goes to college or becomes self employed can be in a much worse position

I probably also should have pointed out that the weekly cash in hand maximum for this lady with three children would be €332.
I have added in her rental income, which, although large, obviously is not something that this woman enjoys aside from having a place to live with her children.

I'm from the area with the highest birth rate in the country (GO FINGAL!) and every woman I know who hasn't emigrated has given birth to a child in the last 3 years. That's not an exaggeration. One friend popped a few days ago and another friend is due very soon.

Living in a country where there's only about 7 children in the whole country and the rest are aging pensioners (Spain), I think it's great. This is EXACTLY what we should be doing during a recession...we need people to pay our pensions etc. PLus it gives me the creeps how kids are given special treatment here....older people giving their seats up for kids on public transport? Ye wha?
I prefer to be from a country where no one likes you except your parents....toughens you up!

If you happen to be any other species but human, and can't provide the resources to feed and shelter your children - your genes die out naturally.

However if you are human, and also lucky enough to be Irish (and can't provide for your children) - you get rewarded with MORE food and shelter for having children. It's like some screwed up faulty version of natural selection.

I wanted to help out with this statistic, I really did. But the allure of the boots ribbed-for-her is just too much