Ok so lets take your Indo report as the definitive for the moment, and lets take your view that This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language scratching is not fraudulent ( but if purple comes back on here then you have to explain that to him/her).
The report is dated May 2013, and you have unilaterally decided that there is a serious bout of This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language scratching going on. The report states that it would appear to vindicate the Ministers view that some people have chosen a lifestyle of welfare. But it doesn't confirm that the Ministers view is vindicated, let alone the Minister herself confirming her view. Let me say here now, that I do not doubt that it is the case, that some choose welfare dependency as a lifestyle, but I would seriously doubt it to be at the levels that are suggested here. And in my defence, Colm Keaveney who obtained the ,'astonishingly, disturbing' figures stated they required an investigation. If you have the results of that investigation that would be handy?
But in the absence of those results, we can work with the figures from your article.
Some 43,500 people never contributed to PRSI, indicating that they never worked.
How many of these people are;
1) school leavers or college gradutes looking for work for the first time at a time of some 13-14% unemployment?
2) immigrants arriving to ireland from other EU countries but with no track record of working here
3) are engaged in full-time care of elderly or disabled person
4) actively seeking employment and participating in social welfare programs to upskill or retrain
5) actively seeking employment but because of a previous criminal record or drug or alcohol addiction are genuinely finding it difficult to receive offers of employment
6) in receipt of a disability allowance that hinders, but does not prevent them from taking employment? For instance, most office blocks are wheelchair friendly these days, but how wheelchair workers do you know of. I know of only two.
6) members of the Traveller community who have traditionally faced discrimination when it comes to employment.
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The results of the investigation would surely give us a better picture.
Certainly by time people have reached 35, that number drops dramatically to 13,222 and as mentioned this would include people with kids so add to the list
8) lone parents, typically women, left to raise a child without a reliable partner.
So once you can identify the number of This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language scratchers as distinct the number of people with no PRSI, then come back and we will discuss further.
