Local newspaper like Southside seems very Marixist

Chinasea wrote: »

Every week there seems to be a picture slapped onto the front of the South-Side newspaper of a 23 year old "single mother" of umpteen children wearing a big sad face, because the wicked County Council are not providing her with "adequate accommodation."One week they published a story that a tenant could hear her next door neighbour's TV.

Now we all know that nobody deserves to live in a dump but, is there any personal responsibility going on, is there any recognition that a perfectly good council house/flat for €25.00 per week ain't a bad deal. 3 children at 23 and single is a bit of a mystery to me also.


No other news items seem to get center stage in these useless local (free) papers. Does Karl Marx run the paper?

MaxSteele wrote: »

Not a mystery at all. Career mother. Have as many kids as possible while throwing in bigger claims and demands because you're a lazy scrotebag.

I know one girl who has her own house, on about 5 or 600 a week altogether, while the fella works and claims residence somewhere else.

"Full Time Mammy" as her employment status on Facebook to put the icing on the cake. Should be taken out and made work the Tara mines for 12 hours a day.

Shryke wrote: »

Throw a probably not very bright woman into slavery in a mine because she abuses a system that asks for it. WTF man. Keyboard warrior attacking welfare mom.
Maybe address the system rather than throwing people into chains. I hate having to read this trash. Boards collective IQ gets lowered with everyone of these mob mentality gibes at random groups and people.

MaxSteele wrote: »

Take it with a pinch of salt and chill the f*** out. No need to take it literally. This is AH if you hadn't noticed.

Yes we do need to address the system. Most of these women have enough relatives or immediate family who can put them up at home for a start.

I'll hand it over to you Shryke for more ideas.

Chinasea wrote: »

Every week there seems to be a picture slapped onto the front of the South-Side newspaper of a 23 year old "single mother" of umpteen children wearing a big sad face, because the wicked County Council are not providing her with "adequate accommodation."One week they published a story that a tenant could hear her next door neighbour's TV.

Now we all know that nobody deserves to live in a dump but, is there any personal responsibility going on, is there any recognition that a perfectly good council house/flat for €25.00 per week ain't a bad deal. 3 children at 23 and single is a bit of a mystery to me also.


No other news items seem to get center stage in these useless local (free) papers. Does Karl Marx run the paper?

SINGLE mother of two young children is facing the prospect of moving to a homeless shelter after cuts to her rent supplement means she can no longer afford to pay for her rented accommodation.

Claire Doyle (23), from Clondalkin, said she has fallen foul of the Government’s introduction of the Rent Supplement Review that was announced in last year’s budget.

The review, put forward by Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton, intends to supply short-term income support to people who are renting non-State owned accommodation but whose income is not enough to meet the rental costs.

However, Ms Doyle, who has a one-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son, said her rent was cut after she informed her local welfare officer that she was receiving maintenance payments of €45 per week for her two young children.

“I can’t believe it’s come to this,” Ms Doyle told Southside People.

“I’m devastated. I can’t sleep or barely eat over it all. I’ve had to make an appointment with my doctor to see can I get sleeping tablets because I’m finding it so hard to sleep. I’m struggling to pay my bills and feed the children as it is so there’s no way I can pay the rest of the rent money.”

She explained how she had to contact Focus Ireland - a charity that supports those facing homelessness - to see if there was any way she could avoid going to a homeless shelter.

However, the only solution is cheaper accommodation, but Ms Doyle said she would not be able to meet even these reduced costs due to the cuts to her rent allowance.

She explained how she has been served a notice to quit the premises by her landlord and will be homeless from the end of August.

However, she said she takes no issue with her landlord, as she believes he is within his right to maintain the current rental fee for the property.

“I don’t have a problem with the landlord as this is not his problem,” she stated. “I was able to afford the rent until it was cut. My son is supposed to be starting school in September. I’ve managed to get his uniform and all his things in, but how am I supposed to get him to school every morning from a homeless shelter in town? I don’t want my kids to have to live in a shelter, but I don’t know what else I can do.”

Ms Doyle said she can’t return to her mother’s home because there are currently nine people residing there.

“The house would be too overcrowded, so I can’t even go back there,” she said. “It looks like the only option I have is to go homeless. I’ve contacted South Dublin County Council but there doesn’t seem to be anything they can do. I’ve been on the housing list for three years now for permanent accommodation, but there’s been nothing yet.”

Sinn Fein’s Dublin Mid-West representative, Eoin Ó Broin, who is seeking to highlight Ms Doyle’s case, has described the situation as “absolutely disgraceful”.

“Rent supplement is meant to assist people unable to meet the full cost of their rent in the private sector,” he said. “That a rent review should result in a young family being forced out onto the street or into homeless accommodation is absolutely disgraceful. It also makes no financial sense as the cost of emergency accommodation for a family will be significantly higher than the original rent supplement payment.”

“This is not the first case of significant payment reductions following rent supplement reviews that I have come across,” he added. “In recent months it has become increasingly common. The Department of Social Protection is clearly intent on reducing its spending on this area irrespective of the costs to families. It is simply unacceptable that a benefit designed to keep people out of homelessness is having the opposite effect," he said.

A spokesperson for the Department of Social Protection said they could not comment on individual cases.

Last year, there were 96,800 recipients of rent supplement with a total expenditure on the scheme of €503 million. At the end of June 2012 there were 92,200 recipients with €436 million provided for this year.

“Budget 2012 provided for reductions in the rate of payment for all rent supplement recipients due to increases in the minimum contribution payable by tenants and adjustments to the maximum rent limits,” a spokesperson stated.

The spokesperson said the minimum contribution payable by all rent supplement tenants was increased by a minimum of €6 from €24 to €30 per week.

This reduction was applied to all customers from January 2012.

Abi wrote: »

If it bothers you so much, why do you read it every week?

I assume you mine this:



She was honest enough to tell them she was receiving the 45 pw in m..................

Abi wrote: »

If it bothers you so much, why do you read it every week?

I assume you mine this:



She was honest enough to tell them she was receiving the 45 pw in maintenance, and they gave her a financial punch in the face. Am I supposed to side with you and say 'yeah shes nothing but a fúcking scrounger'. 45pw wouldn't come close to the cost of bringing two children as young as one and three up per week. While there are people that are not what I would call deserving of a SW payment, there are some honest cases and they're being repeated kicked in the hole by the SW.

They are constantly reducing the rate of payments across the board, and anywhere else they can chop entitlements. There are honestly people with their arses against the wall, and then they've to face the ridicule of the public for being a lone parent. She has kids at 23, so did my mother. So fúcking what. Another thinly veiled rant about single mothers. FFS.


Oh and she has 2 kids, not 'umpteen'.