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Burton: Garda checkpoints on estates to weed out welfare cheats

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  • #242
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Bankers also to fall under the "Stop and search" order with immediate effect.


  • #243
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭doolox


    My job depends on timely transit at off peak times from several venues sometimes 2 sometimes 3 gigs per day.

    I cannot and will not be delayed by check points set up by fat-cat overpaid public "servants" in secure jobs who have never known the insecurity of redundancy, job lay offs or paycuts.

    This scheme will delay thousands going about their legitimate business and cause them to go back on the dole or leave this embitted isle.

    On the east coast the traffic is hectic enough without imposing more delays on people trying to get about and earn a crust.


  • #244
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    doolox wrote: »
    My job depends on timely transit at off peak times from several venues sometimes 2 sometimes 3 gigs per day.

    I cannot and will not be delayed by check points set up by fat-cat overpaid public "servants" in secure jobs who have never known the insecurity of redundancy, job lay offs or paycuts.

    This scheme will delay thousands going about their legitimate business and cause them to go back on the dole or leave this embitted isle.

    On the east coast the traffic is hectic enough without imposing more delays on people trying to get about and earn a crust.

    This scheme will cause no more time delays than the average road traffic accident or tax/insurance checkpoint.
    Get over it.


  • #245
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Sir Humphrey Appleby wrote: »
    This scheme will cause no more time delays than the average road traffic accident or tax/insurance checkpoint.
    Get over it.

    yes because they have guards checking tax insurance questioning all passengers then talking to dole checker rinse repeat ..


  • #246
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Sir Humphrey Appleby wrote: »
    This scheme will cause no more time delays than the average road traffic accident or tax/insurance checkpoint.
    Get over it.

    But how, if they stop you for tax, they see it on your screen and let you go on. Road accidents can halt traffic completely for near an hour!


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  • #247
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    yes because they have guards checking tax insurance questioning all passengers then talking to dole checker rinse repeat ..

    these checkpoints have been running for a good while already, haven't heard of huge inconvenience caused to the general law abiding public.


  • #248
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #249
    denlaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭denlaw


    Will the guards be stopping people coming out of leafy estates in the posh parts of towns through out Ireland or will it, as usual, be the working class council estates in these same towns..?

    Its not far of 1930's Germany nowadays in Ireland


  • #250
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,788 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Sir Humphrey Appleby wrote: »
    these checkpoints have been running for a good while already, haven't heard of huge inconvenience caused to the general law abiding public.

    Yes. Since 1999 and a lot of them concentrated near the border. I have never heard of them causing traffic disruption.

    Nothing new either for them to be discussed on Boards.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057011628

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056167545


  • #251
    brokenarms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭brokenarms


    doolox wrote: »
    My job depends on timely transit at off peak times from several venues sometimes 2 sometimes 3 gigs per day.

    I cannot and will not be delayed by check points set up by fat-cat overpaid public "servants" in secure jobs who have never known the insecurity of redundancy, job lay offs or paycuts.

    This scheme will delay thousands going about their legitimate business and cause them to go back on the dole or leave this embitted isle.

    On the east coast the traffic is hectic enough without imposing more delays on people trying to get about and earn a crust.

    When I went through these checkpoints it went like this.

    It was in an already congested route.

    Lets use Celbridge as an example. Rush hour.

    The Garda use a lay-by with traffic cones. And pull over 7 or 8 cars and vans at a time. There is a welfare person for each car or van stopped.

    You are asked your address and a few questions and sent on your way. As you all know you are required by law to always carry your licence while driving, so there will be no problem with ID.
    Then you are let go. Simples.

    You are waged in traffic anyway so there is no escape or U turns.


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  • #252
    RustyNut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    brokenarms wrote: »
    When I went through these checkpoints it went like this.

    It was in an already congested route.

    Lets use Celbridge as an example. Rush hour.

    The Garda use a lay-by with traffic cones. And pull over 7 or 8 cars and vans at a time. There is a welfare person for each car or van stopped.

    You are asked your address and a few questions and sent on your way. As you all know you are required by law to always carry your licence while driving, so there will be no problem with ID.
    Then you are let go. Simples.

    You are waged in traffic anyway so there is no escape or U turns.

    How did it work for passangers?


  • #253
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #254
    Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Eight Ball


    Remind me again how many bankers, developers and politicians are in jail due to their criminal wrong doings in the last ten years?


  • #255
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    Eight Ball wrote: »
    Remind me again how many bankers, developers and politicians are in jail due to their criminal wrong doings in the last ten years?

    Ray Burke
    Frank Dunlop
    4 bankers already indicted.
    You have evidence of actual criminality (as opposed to hyperbole) bring it to the guards.


  • #256
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭doolox


    I already have to allow 5-10 minutes for such things as accidents, tax/ins road checks and such delays on all my journies. Now I have to add another 5- 10 minutes to each journey to keep Burton happy.

    Also tax and insurance are quick and easy to verify and clear, one can only imagine the delays incurred by questioning each suspect "worker" and trawling through ID etc on each suspect.

    Already some race meetings marathons etc can add a 1/2 hour or more to my journey to some locations as the cops do not have any concept of time or delay to the general public caused by such events.

    Another big culprit are bin lorries which can block up roads for 10-15 minutes at a time screwing up peoples schedules.

    Palestine used to have such check points between the occupied territories and the state of Israel, where all the jobs were. The Palestinian workers used to take 2 hours to get into Israel to work. Huge delays and shutdowns used to be imposed arbitrarily much to the inconvenience of the people in the occupied territories. Similar delays and frustrations exist in Gibraltar for workers crossing the border.

    I used to think Ireland was above acting like a former fascist state or a state surrounded by sworn deadly enemies.


  • #257
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Why don't they just ask Revenue, who have records of employees to check against Social welfare records?


    This is..................retarded.


  • #258
    brokenarms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭brokenarms


    RustyNut wrote: »
    How did it work for passangers?

    I don't know . I was alone. The whole thing did make me a little uneasy , even though I was innocent of anything.

    But Garda are supposed to come across that way I think. Same as any checkpoint.


  • #259
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Why don't they just ask Revenue, who have records of employees to check against Social welfare records?


    This is..................retarded.

    You mean inter departmental communication, perish the thought!


  • #260
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,788 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Eight Ball wrote: »
    Remind me again how many bankers, developers and politicians are in jail due to their criminal wrong doings in the last ten years?

    Here is some light reading about tax cheats etc. New villians every quarter, goes back a few years. Part 2 has the big fish.

    http://www.revenue.ie/en/press/defaulters/


  • #261
    Paramite Pie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Paramite Pie


    denlaw wrote: »
    Will the guards be stopping people coming out of leafy estates in the posh parts of towns through out Ireland or will it, as usual, be the working class council estates in these same towns..?

    Its not far of 1930's Germany nowadays in Ireland

    Never heard of a Posh Industrial Estate. They're not going after residential areas just work areas.;)

    It's nothing like 1930's Germany.... especially since there was "no" unemployment in the Third Reich anyways:eek: (killed the disabled and elderly... and banned female employment).


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  • #262
    RedFormanFITA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭RedFormanFITA


    Sir Humphrey Appleby wrote: »
    Ray Burke
    Frank Dunlop
    4 bankers already indicted.
    You have evidence of actual criminality (as opposed to hyperbole) bring it to the guards.

    Mere window dressing.


  • #263
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #264
    brokenarms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭brokenarms


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Why don't they just ask Revenue, who have records of employees to check against Social welfare records?


    This is..................retarded.

    Because 1000s are working "off the cards" . Especially for construction and manual work.


  • #265
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.
    It is a joke. They should be able to type in your PPS and all your details should come up. That is what you would think it is for!


  • #266
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,521 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    doolox wrote: »
    Palestine used to have such check points between the occupied territories and the state of Israel, where all the jobs were.

    You're comparing one of the most dangerous and fiercely contested borders in the world...to these checks, which you will probably never encounter:pac:


  • #267
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Valetta wrote: »
    What's wrong with a guard having more than one job? :confused:

    Its in their contract firstly. Its to avoid confusion of them working on the private job while they are paid for doing public work. Then there could be a conflict of interest when they are supposed to be neutral. They get paid well enough not to have to do any private work.


  • #268
    RedFormanFITA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭RedFormanFITA


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Why don't they just ask Revenue, who have records of employees to check against Social welfare records?


    This is..................retarded.

    You've got to be kidding me? Revenue talk to Social Welfare, we live in 2013 and yet paper documents, remember those? Have to be put into envelopes and stamps bought, then a name and address has to be put on said envelope and delivered by hand, yes hand, not email or anything else from this century.

    Ballynagash Urban District Council is alive and kicking, 1950's style. They've probably got pictures of Arch Bishop McQuaid hanging up on their office wall.


  • #269
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Why don't they just ask Revenue, who have records of employees to check against Social welfare records?


    This is..................retarded.

    This is the bit I find hard to understand, I've seen the IT infrastructure of quite a few government department and know that the capability to do this is certainly there. Provided the political will to get it all done is there.

    There's sure as **** been enough money spent on IT consulting in the past 10 years (ish) that this should be childs play if they put their minds wills to it if they asked the IT consultants to make it work.


  • #270
    Dotsie~tmp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭Dotsie~tmp


    Valetta wrote: »
    Proper order.

    If you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear and will be on your way in no time.

    Far too many people scamming the system for my liking, and we're all paying for it.

    First they came for the tradesmen...


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  • #271
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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