Brendan Burgess
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A very Dublin centric view point.
Hi Protocol
That is very interesting.
I wonder why it would be that different. Was it always that way or has it changed recently?
It was put to the guy on the radio that restaurants were booming again, and he replied that they may be doing well in Dublin, but that they were suffering around the country.
Brendan
I dislike the notion that make something low enough you force people into poor work and allow bad employers abuse people.
Surely we have over decades seen what happens when you force things down.
With Doyle in the room are his wife [broken link removed] and their youngest child, John Paul jnr (2). The couple have five other children: Michael (17) who is now living with his girlfriend; Jordanna (14) who has a heart murmur; Frances (10); Winnie (7); and Mary (6)....
....In the back garden, two lurchers, Elas and Toby, lounge about, while a yappy poodle also announces its presence.....
...Doyle is 36, while Frances is 37. They have been together since they were 18, having met at a Halloween party in Longford.
Doyle is an intelligent, articulate and able-bodied man, but he has never had a job, something he attributes to his illiteracy.
“I’m unemployable. Disability, learning disability; reading and writing,” he says. “I’m on the disability. I’m getting €490 a week. That’s everything. You have to try to do your best with that few hundred you get.”
Would he like a job? “I’d love a job, yeah. I’d love to get an income. It would take a while to get used to [a job], wouldn’t it?” he says....
...The Doyles would have to pay just €42 a week rent, with the remainder of the cost being paid by the State...
...The garage that wraps around the cottage is called Stan’s Garage and is run by Stanislaw from Poland, a hard-working, jolly fellow who has been living in Ireland for 11 years. ...
The husband and wife say the council would never offer such a property to another family with young children – “I wouldn’t take the house for nothing,” says Doyle
“They wouldn’t put anyone else in a house like that,” says Frances.
Doyle agrees, describing the property as “this kip hole”....
...At night, he parked the 4X4 where he could
Later that day, a person from the S/W called me to say Mr X was with her and would I pay him €50 more per week!! and if not, she would have to recommend that he stays on benefits as he would have a better standard of living!!
With respect Gerry that makes no sense at all. The rates of Social welfare set the floor below which people will not work. They also set the level at which the pay graph for the entire economy starts. Therefore given that someone gets €100 per week as an 20 year old they are not going to take a job which pays them less than that.i don,t see minimum wage as a good measure of anything except that if it wasn,t in place ,staff would be thrown crumbs for wages.
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