Boy, things must be bad in Ireland when the Government is withdrawing a measly €30 per week allowance from disabled workers. The Minister for Health has defended the axing of a grant paid to people with disabilities on some training programmes. The move to cease the €31.80 per five-day week payment from September 1st has been criticised by social workers and Opposition TDs. Describing the move as a “callous act affecting those most vulnerable and most in need of disability supports”, Donegal Independent TD Thomas Pringle claimed it was motivated by the need to save money. But the measure, estimated to affect about 400 people, will yield less than €1 million in savings annually.
This represents just one of a wide range of Government support cuts spanning health, education, home support for the elderly and much more. Even the supposedly ring-fenced contribution to the Rainy Day Fund has been abandoned due to fiscal constraints. But the politicians were nonetheless able to conjure up nearly €11 million to fund a range of "Gender Equality and Migrant Integration" projects. The migrant integration projects will provide a range of practical supports directly to migrants, including English language classes and workplace training. Anti-racism and cultural diversity initiatives will also receive funding. The gender equality projects will support women’s entrepreneurship and participation in the workforce through a range of training and mentoring initiatives. In other words get mothers out of the home, the stated primary objective of this freak to whom we've handed over responsibility for children and the family.
This represents just one of a wide range of Government support cuts spanning health, education, home support for the elderly and much more. Even the supposedly ring-fenced contribution to the Rainy Day Fund has been abandoned due to fiscal constraints. But the politicians were nonetheless able to conjure up nearly €11 million to fund a range of "Gender Equality and Migrant Integration" projects. The migrant integration projects will provide a range of practical supports directly to migrants, including English language classes and workplace training. Anti-racism and cultural diversity initiatives will also receive funding. The gender equality projects will support women’s entrepreneurship and participation in the workforce through a range of training and mentoring initiatives. In other words get mothers out of the home, the stated primary objective of this freak to whom we've handed over responsibility for children and the family.
In that referenced post I asked whether I was paranoid in thinking greater forces were at work influencing Irish Ministers to make such decisions. In it I described Irish politicians as nonentities, without convictions, whose only interest lies in ensuring their continued place on the gravy train through re-election. Taking training money off the disabled and giving it instead to migrants assuredly does not help with this. So why do they go along with it? Stronger and darker influences are at work here,