Surfing welfare scroungers are having a beach party !

[budwards dad]

RTE dealt with this topic this morning in the usual way. By not dealing with it.

They were proposing that everyone on the dole really wants to work. No sh1t sherlock! MOST people really want work, but that doesn't answer the point that the state on our behalf gives out way too much tax payers money (from the highest paid hospital consultants in the world through top level educational salaries that are not performance related to the best dole terms around).
Cut these expenses and prices here for everything will drop... making this a competitive place to do business.

[hedzog]

most people can't live 'wonderfully' on 267 a week. this woman's fault in my book is not that she's Polish, or one of a vast imaginary legion of surfing dole 'scroungers', but that she's a repugnant ungracious ungrateful lazy a55hole providing easy copy for our greatest rag.

bring on the trolls...

she's a repugnant ungracious ungrateful lazy a55hole

average number of people signing on in 2006 was just over 157,000
this lot would fit into that catgeory as well ,

[Boggle]

Fuel allowance, Rent allowance, medical card, back to school allowance, etc......

As it happens I think I misread the thing altogether.

She says she earns 67 a week more now than she did while working... I thought the 67 was the dole in Poland.

Oops.

[budwards dad]

I heard some Pole questioning the translation on radio. Like a lot that appears here perhaps there is an agenda.

But you can't question the FACT of the amounts paid. This is why it not worth taking a start up job in this country and it contributes to price inflation.

[Tawdy]

Way to go lads! Get yourselves excited by reading an in&m rag.

[darkhorse]

I dont think its fair to blame 'Magda' for living the life within the Irish welfare system - why shouldnt she if thats what we offer
And its nothing to do with her being Polish - people of every nationality including Irish are doing the exact same thing
The problem lies with our welfare system offering these generous benefits to all and sundry - which are bound to attract visitors from throughout the EU and beyond

[bob3367]

How can she claim the Dole if she packed in her job?

[Picasso Republic]

The Irish Independent: the paper of broken record...

The report is not based on any polarised investigation into foreigners and welfare. It is carried as it is a story from a Polish Newspaper - it is common (not just in Ireland) for national newspapers to scan for stories carried about their country in other countries and as a story about Ireland, this is worthy of carrying.

I agree that this interview has the potential to do a lot of damage to ALL on welfare.

[mr. jings]

But you can't question the FACT of the amounts paid. This is why it not worth taking a start up job in this country and it contributes to price inflation.

Not sure about the inflation argument. Considering higher taxes, levies and charges, the fact that many people took 10% pay cuts, have had work hours cut, or have lost their income and are now on the dole, a hell of a of people in this country are on considerably less income than they used to be and I'd bet the market hasn't yet corrected general prices and costs of living in line with this drastic change of circumstances. On the other had, if peoples incomes had increased by the same proportion, I'd bet we'd be feeling a disproportionate increase in our expenses. It's a rigged game in my book.

[O' Really?]

the article is a very bad translation, probably done by an intern in the indo office using google translate who scored a polish one before.

the husband actually is working, she is setting up her own business, she never said the place was a ************************hole, and she is trained in hawaiin massage.

i don't expect much from that rag, but this was a dangerous article.