how many in Ireland on dole?

Pinewoo · 25-04-2013 01:53AM #1

I hear this figure of 400,000 being thrown around but can't find any concrete evidence to verify.. Internet official stats seem to be from 2011 but the figure is probably much different now, do you know anyone on the dole or do you claim yourself perhaps?

1ZRed · 25-04-2013 01:54AM

What is with the obsession about the dole around here ffs?

Boombastic · 25-04-2013 01:55AM

People on the dole get €400,000 :eek:

Is this per week/year, scandalous

FoxT · 25-04-2013 01:56AM

not on dole, just being thrown around, I think?

Gatling · 25-04-2013 01:57AM

Pinewoo wrote: »

I hear this figure of 400,000 being thrown around but can't find any concrete evidence to verify.. Internet official stats seem to be from 2011 but the figure is probably much different now, do you know anyone on the dole or do you claim yourself perhaps?

I suggest you read the CSO figures you might get a better idea

Ruu · 25-04-2013 01:57AM

They get free cars as well or is that the immigants?

endacl · 25-04-2013 01:58AM

its actually only 3 people. They're signing on all over the place. Its a scandal.

Pinewoo · 25-04-2013 01:58AM

Gatling wrote: »

I suggest you read the CSO figures you might get a better idea

Where are they, as I said I only see stats from 2011...

starviewadams · 25-04-2013 02:00AM

Know 7 or 8 people on the dole personally.Live register for March 2013 was 422,088 and 83,421 on CE schemes/JobBridge/TUS/Fas courses etc.

http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/04/542013-live-register-march-2013.html

RUSTEDCORE · 25-04-2013 02:02AM

Its the farmers putting their cows on the dole
getting medical cards for their sheep and rent allowance for their pigs....

I say we kill everyone outside Dublin and turn it all into high rise housing and sell it to the chinese.

MadsL · 25-04-2013 02:07AM

endacl wrote: »

its actually only 3 people. They're signing on all over the place. Its a scandal.

It's actually four, but one of them has a part time job..So about...

...tree fiddy!

Yamanoto · 25-04-2013 02:21AM

Pinewoo wrote: »

Where are they, as I said I only see stats from 2011...

They're published monthly by the CSO

http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/labourmarket/2013/lreg_mar2013.pdf

fasttalkerchat · 25-04-2013 03:22AM

Ruubot2 wrote: »

They get free cars as well or is that the immigants?

Free prams if you can't fit it on a bus.

fasttalkerchat · 25-04-2013 03:25AM

starviewadams wrote: »

Know 7 or 8 people on the dole personally.Live register for March 2013 was 422,088 and 83,421 on CE schemes/JobBridge/TUS/Fas courses etc.

http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/04/542013-live-register-march-2013.html

Well that's a start. So we know its somewhere between 8 and 422,088.

policarp · 25-04-2013 04:09AM

I'm on the dole. . .

policarp · 25-04-2013 04:12AM

No. I'm on the dole. . .

jimjamcos · 25-04-2013 04:18AM

I'm on the dole too so you can count me.

Norwesterner · 25-04-2013 04:32AM

Being on the dole and living in a Council house is probably the safest place to be, as regards demographics in Ireland.
Working in an unstable job with a monthly mortgage or rent to meet is WORSE than being unemployed imo.

IceFjoem · 25-04-2013 05:20AM

starviewadams wrote: »

Know 7 or 8 people on the dole personally.Live register for March 2013 was 422,088 and 83,421 on CE schemes/JobBridge/TUS/Fas courses etc.

http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/04/542013-live-register-march-2013.html

Jesus, that's almost 11% of the population!

NuckingFacker · 25-04-2013 07:19AM

If we find out what the full number of the possible working population is and then start crossing off the ones who still are working it might be quicker..

If there's 500,000 not working and about 200,000 have had to emigrate(I'd say more but they have a blind lad with one arm keeping count on the Out door to keep the figures looking better), I'd say E. Kenny has another 150,000 hidden in colleges, behind his sofa and in camps in Leitrim. Damn near a million if you include Twink and Samantha Mumba.

mawk · 25-04-2013 07:31AM

Those dammed doleys!
Did you hear they get a free immigrant twice a year!

Ffs my tax pays for those immigrants and I can't even afford one!!

Treehousetim · 25-04-2013 07:37AM

Eh you forgot the sick. Dole is one thing , sickness benefits another. And not all 'sick' people are sick. I know several who boast about the performances they give at the gp surgery.

Elessar · 25-04-2013 07:40AM

IceFjoem wrote: »

Jesus, that's almost 11% of the population!

That 400k figure is thrown around a lot, but it's not accurate!

The cso figure includes people who are casual and part time workers. The quarterly household survey is a more accurate reflection of unemployment.

As of end 2012, there was 294k persons unemployed in the state. On the bright side, there are still 2.15 million people employed in ireland. And to get a better idea of the stats, remember that in the height of the boom (q32007), there were still over 100k registered as unemployed.

It would be more accurate to say the unemployment figure rests at under 200k. Still a lot, but half of 400k.

bhamsteve · 25-04-2013 07:42AM

I'm on BTEA, soon to sign back on the dole for the summer. Do I count?

IceFjoem · 25-04-2013 08:53AM

Elessar wrote: »

That 400k figure is thrown around a lot, but it's not accurate!

The cso figure includes people who are casual and part time workers. The quarterly household survey is a more accurate reflection of unemployment.

As of end 2012, there was 294k persons unemployed in the state. On the bright side, there are still 2.15 million people employed in ireland. And to get a better idea of the stats, remember that in the height of the boom (q32007), there were still over 100k registered as unemployed.

It would be more accurate to say the unemployment figure rests at under 200k. Still a lot, but half of 400k.

Jesus, that's almost 5.5% of the population!

kneemos · 25-04-2013 09:09AM

IceFjoem wrote: »

Jesus, that's almost 5.5% of the population!

Is Jesus on Boards?

IceFjoem · 25-04-2013 09:32AM

kneemos wrote: »

Is Jesus on Boards?

Ye, two in the shape of a T.

AnonoBoy · 25-04-2013 09:38AM

bhamsteve wrote: »

I'm on BTEA, soon to sign back on the dole for the summer. Do I count?

I'm not sure. I thought when they put someone on BTEA or an Enterprise Grant they counted them as not "being on the dole" anymore despite receiving payments.

I could be wrong though.

Anyway... here's a song about the dole: