dhorse, "look out into the bigger world and go for it instead of whinging about what other are getting"

Ah, pots, kettle, black .... Public Service !!!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 06/12/2009 11:43:13    504642

This programme is a joke 53,000 32 ,000 fraud...When will we see a programme on the Bankers or Developers who took us for Billions not Millions.. And then sent fraudsters to prison for minor sums of money.....Will the bankers see one day in a police station..This programme is showing the most vunerable in a bad light..

tomaoo7 (Dublin) - Posts: 5896 - 07/12/2009 21:57:35    506618

Vurnerable me hole, a bunch of cowboys who were taken the taxpayers for a ride.

JuanVeron (Westmeath) - Posts: 1866 - 07/12/2009 22:39:00    506657

JuanVeron
County: Westmeath
Posts: 1055

506657 Vurnerable me hole, a bunch of cowboys who were taken the taxpayers for a ride. .................What these people were taking from the state was mickey mouse money compared to what the bankers and deveolopers took...even a person like you must realise that...Leave the rich be and pick on the poor...

tomaoo7 (Dublin) - Posts: 5896 - 07/12/2009 22:47:01    506668

07/12/2009 21:57:35
tomaoo7
County: Dublin
Posts: 4915

506618 This programme is a joke 53,000 32 ,000 fraud...When will we see a programme on the Bankers or Developers who took us for Billions not Millions.. And then sent fraudsters to prison for minor sums of money.....Will the bankers see one day in a police station..This programme is showing the most vunerable in a bad light..

The estimate figure of social welfare fraud is somehwere between €2.2Bn and €3Bn. That is almost 75% of the cuts that the Government is looking for. So while the bankers are to blame primarily we cannot excuse this crime. Shame on all those guilty!

Real Louth fan (Louth) - Posts: 3157 - 07/12/2009 23:04:12    506693

07/12/2009 22:47:01
tomaoo7
County: Dublin
Posts: 4915

506668 JuanVeron
County: Westmeath
Posts: 1055

506657 Vurnerable me hole, a bunch of cowboys who were taken the taxpayers for a ride. .................What these people were taking from the state was mickey mouse money compared to what the bankers and deveolopers took...even a person like you must realise that...Leave the rich be and pick on the poor...

Ah give it up will ya!!! Fraud is fraud. The sins of the bankers doesn't make it right for these people to do what they were doing. The bankers deserve our scorn but that doesn't mean to hell with the rest of the place. Some have been at it for 12 years and more. Every single one of them knew what they were at!

Are you saying it is ok for that man and his wife to cliam the pension of a dead woman?! Catch a grip will ya!!!

Real Louth fan (Louth) - Posts: 3157 - 07/12/2009 23:06:53    506696

This programme also clearl stated that there are as many, if not more, 'Irish' at it than 'foreigners'. Shame on those who do so and shame on the Department of Social Welfare who couldn't be bothered! They'd rather strike than deal with reality. Root them out!!!

Disgraceful performance by the Dir Gen of the Department and also disgraceful comments from that social worker who admitted that she would defraud the state if given the chance yet blamed the Gov for not catching people who defraud!! A shocking double standard!!!

Real Louth fan (Louth) - Posts: 3157 - 07/12/2009 23:09:44    506700

Didn't see the show last night. What were the normal routes by which people were commiting social welfare fraud? Childrens, disability, rent allowance?

NavyNBlue (Dublin) - Posts: 1357 - 08/12/2009 09:54:57    506906

2 wrongs don't make a right. There has been and there still is massive fraud going on at all levels of our society. Fraud is a crime regardless of whether its a Banker living in a 2 million quid pad or a social welfare recipient living in a Council estate. All fraudulent activity needs to be clamped down on and the offenders penalised. However the penalties should be pro rata, in other words the big fish should get it in the neck.

corkcelt (Cork) - Posts: 4388 - 08/12/2009 12:00:45    507020

lads, i m a public sector worker, boo hiss, and i m currently building a house. All my stuff is bought locally, and all my labour is irish - not a rascist etc, just want to support local employers. I got a tiler in to do jobs for me and we agreed a price, assuming it was cheque payment, or at least the bulk of it. When the strike went ahead i had the 2 lads ribbing me about how we were destroying the country, etc. When i went to pay him he said he d only do cash as it would affect his rent allowance! I said ok, but i d have to get a better price. He said he d let me off with the vat.. That he never pays anyhow! and i know hes flat out working the wholetime. More fool me..

old yellar (None) - Posts: 2631 - 08/12/2009 19:50:39    507664

re. to dhorse

I'll be honest with you.I'm whingin because I'm tryin but it's getting me no where,I have sent CV's around but no job.I have joined FAS but still waiting on answer till after Christmas and I sent application's to PLC's last year and this year but to no joy.I am however hopeful for the year coming because I'm after signing up to a PLC course and I've been given good news so hopefully I'll take it from there

Duffy89 (Wexford) - Posts: 3320 - 08/12/2009 23:49:22    508024

Duffy89
County: Wexford
Posts: 2458

508024 re. to dhorse

I'll be honest with you.I'm whingin because I'm tryin but it's getting me no where,I have sent CV's around but no job.I have joined FAS but still waiting on answer till after Christmas and I sent application's to PLC's last year and this year but to no joy.I am however hopeful for the year coming because I'm after signing up to a PLC course and I've been given good news so hopefully I'll take it from there

Good man, keep busy is the main thing. At 19 the world is waiting for you. Kep her lit.

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 09/12/2009 19:35:53    508852

Cavan_Slasher
County: Cavan
Posts: 3476

504642 dhorse, "look out into the bigger world and go for it instead of whinging about what other are getting"

Ah, pots, kettle, black .... Public Service !!!

Not too sure on your jist,,, but Go for it Brian go for it,,, is that ok

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 09/12/2009 19:36:49    508855

I'm 20 dhorse,does 89 give a hint ?,haha :)

Duffy89 (Wexford) - Posts: 3320 - 09/12/2009 20:02:24    508900

Duffy89
County: Wexford
Posts: 2466

508900 I'm 20 dhorse,does 89 give a hint ?,haha :)

be jakers your getting old,,, i actualyl thought you were born on the liverpool airport bus :>)

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 09/12/2009 20:18:01    508924

haha oh no boss,born in Wexford general haha

Duffy89 (Wexford) - Posts: 3320 - 09/12/2009 20:22:15    508932

Drink

tomaoo7 (Dublin) - Posts: 5896 - 09/12/2009 22:00:02    509072

Drink is right.

Yes the bankers are getting off scot free, but at the end of the day 52000 isn't mickey mouse money.

I'm a public sector worker and I was getting over paid last year, unbeknownst to me. I got a call a few months into it and was told I'd have to pay back over 2500. I had no legal right seemingly to pay it back but bent over and took my punishment as I figured it might stand to me in the long run as regards permanency or any other issues that might affect me and didn't want to be blacklisted within the sector.

And then you see people like what we seen the other night just putting their hand into my pocket and helping themselves. Blaaahhhh. Don't make me sick.

FrChewyLooey (Leitrim) - Posts: 123 - 09/12/2009 23:21:43    509257

A sad story but true folks
the taxpayer is losing millions a year to cheats

JohnGrace1989 (Donegal) - Posts: 472 - 13/12/2009 11:23:05    512312

13/12/2009 11:23:05
JohnGrace1989
County: Donegal
Posts: 216

512312 A sad story but true folks
the taxpayer is losing millions a year to cheats
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If there was an All Ireland title for it we'd give it a good go

ruanua (Donegal) - Posts: 4966 - 13/12/2009 16:23:37    512531