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The Daily PollNO CHECKS ARE being carried out to see if companies signing up to JobBridge have laid off someone in a position that will be filled by an intern.
That’s according to an unpublished report by internal auditors at the Department of Social Protection, obtained by RTÉ’s This Week.
In May the Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar signaled that he wanted to replace it with a new scheme.
So today we’re asking, do you think JobBridge should be scrapped?
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Good, sooner the better him and his mates go.
@Jim O Brien – TechBuzz Ireland: would u rather Micheal Martin in there have you forgot about 2007-2015
@Jim O Brien – TechBuzz Ireland: go in favor of who?
@Shawn O’Ceallaghan: Independents, it would be hard to corrupt them all & they’ve run out of MEP seats.
Political parties just give you more of the same only incrementally more so.
@Mick Byrne: they all just snuggle up together anyway.. I don’t believe any of the other ‘parties’ are other that fronts for FF and FG.. All out to feather their own nests and don’t know how to manage the public purse except to inflate their own salaries.
@Jim O Brien – TechBuzz Ireland: Good.
I look forward to not voting for Sinn Fe Ed
@Kenneth O Brien: Yeah the last nearly decade of FG & Leo’s culture of spin and deflection, coupled with crisis & disasater after crisis & disaster, the massive overspending on capital projects, from the “man with to pints” to “socks” to “swing-gate” and now my 2nd time dealing with overinflated rents and house prices sticks in the memory a lot more.
@Mick Byrne: Hahaha. Do you really think a government made up of independents and smaller parties will be able to agree a path forward on any major issues. It would be a disaster.
I’m all for change/accountability and I think the only way to get that is one of the bigger parties propped up by SF. Prob very unlikely to happen as I don’t think SF will have the numbers or will be willing to come to the table.
@Chin Feeyin: hit Send button too soon.
Anyway, I look forward to not voting for Sinn Fein, Solidarity or PBP.
@Chin Feeyin: people like you are the reason nothing changes!
@Kenneth O Brien: Would you prefer us to award his incompetence and arrogance by giving him another term? Have you forgotten 2017 to the present?
@Dave Thomas: it’s people in pbp, sf and smaller parties are the problem, lack of alternatives.
@Philip Kavanagh: are we better now than 10 years ago??????
@Patrick O Connell: na still the same if not worse for the native Irish, health and housing crisis is defo geting worse with nothing being done to rectify..
@Kenneth O Brien: FF’s Martin is a very (weak) leader of his party. The sheep that follow him should stand up and be counted.
@Mick Byrne: yeah like the independent transport minister…. He turned out alright didn’t he
@Kenneth O Brien: And who do ya think was sitting across from them during that time roaring for more tax reductions and better social welfare at every budget speech. If they were in power it would have been the same results.
@Patrick O Connell: Younger people cannot afford to buy homes, hospital corridors are full of trollies, billions of taxpayers’ money is being wasted, the winds of a global recession are blowing and relations with our most important trading partner are at their lowest in decades – you tell me, are we better now than we were 10 years ago?!
@Chin Feeyin: says a lad/lassy with an account name of chin feeyin, obsessed much?
@Charliegrl80: I tried that and fell asleep
@Patrick O Connell: no we are not, certain individuals may of course be but in general no, the population are worse off than 10 years ago, many more homeless, many more on trolleys, our money been given to certain people through government contracts depsite tribunal findings against him, money being wasted on broadband, white elephant hospitals, spin units i could go on and on, politicians who have been in power for the past 10 yesrs should hang their heads in shame, history will not be kind to them
@Mick Byrne: Ha Shane Ross!
@Kenneth O Brien: were ff in government from 2011 to 2015??????
@Chin Feeyin: LOOKING FORWARD TO VOTING SINN FEIN !!!!
@Jim O Brien – TechBuzz Ireland: Leo fancies himself as a poker player and the ‘opposition’ such as it is, would normally call him out but there is no opposition. Everyone is in government until the 5 year term is served and we still like to believe that this is a democracy. Item 1, a democracy needs an opposition to hold the government responsible. Ireland has always had two governments and one was/is always in opposition feeding off the other. Sycophant Lickopracy might describe the FFG ‘arrangement’.
Close the door on your way out Leo (please take Simon with you) thanks
@Keith ☘️: who would you fancy as his replacement? No agenda, just curious.
@Simon Power: as long as its not Leo who cares
@Keith ☘️: I thought Coveney did a great job dealing with Brexit. I’d love to see some people make suggestions who they might vote for and why instead of just giving out.
@Simon Power: It’s tempting to say anyone but Martin, but I think McDonald should have a go. She can’t mess things up any more than they already are!
@Keith O’Reilly: their record in NI is abysmal
@DBennie: How is he doing a great job on brexit when nothing has been decided yet.I would like to think I would vote for someone like Catherine Murphy who will not put the “party” first instead of the people of this country. Does that help you DBennie?
@Derek Poutch: what do you mean nothing has been decided? Are you saying that we should be basing his performance off the decision the Brits take on a vote they ran? Look up his interview with Andrew Marr, that’s why I think he’s done a good job.
@Patrick O Connell: And FFG’s record over the past 100 yrs? Even the chimps tea party deserves a chance at this stage.
@Simon Power: someone who’s not arrogant and who understands the lives of ordinary people. I think I may be asking a bit too much..
@Keith O’Reilly: Mary Lou cannot stop bullying in her own party and you want her to have a go at running the country? Jesus wept.
@Patrick O Connell: They have a far better record in major achievements in NI than FG have had in their entire history on this Island .. GFA is one for a start ,,
@davey boy: maybe you should check out the bullying in FG and those that have left beacuse of it too .. jesus wept mehole .
If all ye SF haters have conviction, then vote for SF, let them have 4 years, and if what the likes of you believeis true and they dont do a good job, they will be ruined and you wil get your way, so why so concerned ? Are you worried that they might do a good job ?
@DBennie: Very like Brexit they want him out but dont know who they want to replace him.
@Gowon Geter: the shinners had to be brought licking and screaming into the peace process, they had no time for the civil rights movement. John Hume was the real driving force behind the peace process. 20 years ago stormont was up and running and now lol at it. Yeah the shinners are achieving alot
I like Leo & Simon. There. Said it.
@Brian: I’m sure they’re lovely people. They are just rubbish at their jobs. That’s why they have wasted billions in tax payers’ money, ridiculed the medical profession, soldiers, guards, teachers, insulted the electorates’ intelligence by giving us the likes of Bailey. Oh, and did I mention the cervical smear scandal….
@Brian: A vote for Fine Gael is a vote for higher rents and more homelessness. Unless you’re very well off, it’s like a turkey voting for Christmas.
@Brian: I think Simon would be a better leader…he’s played a blinder on Brexit…Leo has not done too bad..if this government addressed the housing crisis In a meaningful way i would for the first time vote fg.
@Philip Kavanagh: All we need now are a few political parties to step up to the mark and give the people what they are asking for. It’s pretty simple really. The next government will give all those professions you mention pay rises, deliver existing cap ex projects for their original budgeted figures, cut income tax, abolish property tax and USC. Not forgetting increases in social welfare and health spending and a massive house building initiative. Maybe we can sort a few water pipes as well. Which party should I give my vote to?
@Paddy J: If people like you need to be told what party to vote for, then let’s all be thankful Leo had to disband his strategic communications unit.
@Philip Kavanagh: Another bitter FF’r
Oh yes leave it till May so you can get you last few trips in
@50Sound: sure why wouldn’t he get them in, I would.
@50Sound: Hay the tax payers paid holidays at Paddy’s Day weekend, that is all expense paid holiday paid by us dopes makes their year…
Bet that is long enuff to qualify for the pension…
@Pete Lee: probably make more on a a doctors pension
Eoghan Murphy in particular will go down as the most inept minister in the history of the free state, and that’s in a cabinet that included Shane Ross
@Dublinlife: He’s not really inept. Just caught up in the difficulties involved in making the transition towards a neoliberal future. It’s really a shame that we have no real left tradition here in politics. I would vote for anybody who absolutely opposes neoliberal/ market based politics. But all we get are 57 varieties of trying to take the edge off the effects of these politics along with the usual bollockology about a 32 county Ireland to distract from the real politics of the market which should be what concern us all.
@alan: well we’ve been a neoliberal country since the 80s like everyone else.
Murphy is doing exactly what he’s supposed to do – keep property prices high and bank values up. Banks primary assets are mortgages – property prices come down banks are worth less money. And let’s not forget FG voters are primarily middle
Class homeowners.
So Murphy is doing precisely what he’s supposed to.
Popcorn time for the comments below…
@Tom Kelly: Remember, remember … https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/property-tax-receipts-to-increase-by-up-to-3m-next-year-1.3325197
Just go, and close the door behind you
Finally some good news from Leo only pity its not before Paddys Day
How will he be fixed for the pension by then?
He wants to level with us . When did he become a comedian?
It was easier to get rid of Enda and that’s saying something…why wasn’t Enda able to leave the last time?…there’s always some excuse to stay in power
Leo has the personality of an amoeba and the backbone to match
@Dave Wallace: Micheal Martin fan?
@Paddy J: God no. Same
Please go and take half the taxes ye foisted in us with ye
@Michael McGrath: he reduced taxes. If we were a real high tax economy a lot of our problems would be solved.
@Darren Bates: bull crapp ,, how is the no permanent previously tem USC reduced taxes ? and enver mind all the other stealth hikes in levies and charges ffs.. If the wealtier/big business paid their fair share insead of being able to use legal loophoiles and if we had a Gov and Public/Civil service that was cost effective and gave value for money and inline with other countries of our size or cities with our population like Manchester a lot of our problems woudl be solved
@Darren Bates: No he did not he widened the bands slightly but he also introduced an ass load of stealth taxes
Why wait probably something to do with the many perks of the job no doubt….
“I believe we can win that election”. Never knew Varadkar was a comedian! They haven’t a snowballs hope in hell of being re-elected. All balls and no brains as they say.
@Rachel O’ Meara: you seem very in tune as to who will take power, who do you think will be voted in? And why?
@Rachel O’ Meara: he is the most arrogant person in Ireland
@DBennie: Well if history has shown us anything it’ll probably be FF, I myself personally speaking think none of the parties are fit for purpose because to me there’s no true centre party anymore they all either swing wildly left or wildly right, even those that were historically center left and right. Fg won’t be re-elected, people have had enough, they had their chance to try and fix things and all they did was pick up their pay packets.
Start planning your leaving speech socky and tell simple harris he better start telling the creche enda found him in, he will be able to attend full time from then on cos hes def not needed for anything either……now all we need is some sort of cop on type plague to infect the usual sheep who vote for this FFG circus act and get someone in, hell even monkeys and a few cardboard cutouts will likely be better replacements for this lot in 2020
@Michael Patrick Newell: who do you have in mind as the next Taoiseach??? Or are you just going to sit on the fence
Would not believe a word out of his mouth.
I’d say maybe this is when we finally see sense and end the FG/FF domination, but after the local elections and the fact that the definition of insanity is just politics in this country, I don’t have much hope.
I’ll still vote for the likes of SF, Greens and SDs along with left wing independents though, cos I can’t give in to apathy and still hope we can have a left wing government one day.
@Keith O’Reilly: If the local elections results are anything to go by it will be a FF/GP/Lab/Ind coalition. Unless you see SF, PBP etc operating as mudflaps for a change.
@Keith O’Reilly: I’ve voted SF all my life….I am not happy with the current leadership…never be able to replace Martin and Gerry..regarding the other ‘ left’s parties and individuals…if they would stop fighting among themselves we might have some chance…otherwise they are a waste of a vote.
Get ready for ’his personal spin’ third world type propaganda machine to start churning out the lies. His idea of democracy has more in common with Africa than a Western European nation.
Time for all the constant critics to start their campaign. Good luck everyone.
Fine Gael didn’t win the election last time. Fianna Fail won and then let Fine Gael run things anyway. A vote for either Fianna Fail or Fine Gael will guarantee more of the same.
He’ll have to go back to private practice leo now , get a feel of the real world, personally I wouldn’t let cut my toes nails, his TD pension will be needed to subsidise new career
Sure why not. He and his band of merry men were trounced in the last elections and yet the spineless Mr Martin and company came up with a plan to keep varadkar in and all is rosey in the land of Fianna FAIL. Still take taxpayers money for nothing . A joke No. Its gone way beyond that . Time the political class was knocked on its head .
@Leo Lalor: If you think that kicking out the political class is a good idea, I might recommend the Workers Solidarity Movement who are a national anarchist organisation of some 35 years standing. The would have share similar views.
@Paddy J: I as a taxpayer is sick to the teeth looking at government incompetence on a grand scale. The amount of tax we pay for 3 rd world services is scandalous . FG and FF are afraid of their lives of Europe and every silly decree sent down is welcomed by leo and co. The latest buzzword being carbon tax.they don’t want u to drive or heat your home unless u can afford expensive upgrades. They are an expensive joke
If FF don’t agree to an extension of C&S then it will be sooner.
Hardly breaking news, he said same at last week’s Kennedy Summer School
@Stephen Kearon: you were in the front row no doubt
Time to change the record from Fianna Fáil or/and Fine Gael. Both parties are self interested and have served the upper tier since the foundation of this state, that said FF are far more crooked and corrupt than FG. We have become numb and desensitised to the harm FF/FG governments have done, homeless families, wholesale waste of public funds, NCH overspend and NBP giving billions away against the advice of PAC. Time to give Sinn Féin a chance, a party that will genuinely work for the citizens of Ireland, putting the people first.
@Keith Mac Suibhne: There is no evidence that SF are any different in reality to FF or FG when it comes to protecting the party at all costs and f*&k the people. I expected them to say that they would use the 1.5 odd million sterling they were gifted to build houses or some other cause to show they would really put the people before profit and party but it looks like they are going to pocket the whole lot. They haven’t put the people of Northern Ireland first by representing them in Stormont. Would one not be better of voting for a new party without any blemish to their character like the Social Democrats for people considering a different vote?
@Keith Mac Suibhne: Dont agrre that FG are less corrupt than FF ,, DOB , Irish Water, NCH, Broadband all have a stinky odour too
Sure his 2ic, Mehole will go along with that. FFG are but 1…
So Leo finally makes the decision that Micheal Martin couldn’t. In any advent it would make any real difference because much the same will be voted back again.
Despite what media says, I am the most successful Taoiseach to ever hold office. Apparently all the wasters think the farmers will vote in force and hammer me.. Or Eoghan (who is doing a great job) progress is hurting fine gael! Or Simon Harris ( who i placed as health minister to sabotage him) mess up with funds.. I tell the people of the journal, if we go.. Then fianna fail will take power and sell us all to the highest bidder.
If you vote for a major political party, then don’t vote for the prime candidate. Vote the old gaurd out..
Remember now Leo ( & Simple Simon ) that social media is a two way street.
We can all look up what you sack of liars have promised in the previous elections and during the years and we all can see the no results …..
Will be interesting to see what spin your focus groups and pr companies come up with this time and how to spin the same auld tripe ..
Not soon enough
We need a GE in February. Get the clowns out.
Makes sense. Haven’t a fiddler’s who to vote for though!
I think Simon has done a great job on Brexit..as have Leo. I have never voted for ff/fg in my life…but if this government addressed the housing crisis in a meaningful way I might actually give them my vote.
@Ronan Skelly: bizarre. Brexit hasn’t even happened yet. Are Irish business prepared? Are the Irish state finances? You’re very eager to hand out pats on the back without any idea whether they’ve done a good job or bad job yet.
And ignoring the likes of cervical check, the health budget, the children’s hospital, housing, broadband and all the rest.
9 more months of the posh arrogant boys and girls – 9 more months to line the pockets of the D4 set and more pain and misery for our sick, our homeless our disabled and our children requiring educational supports being deny access to necessary supports. I have a child waiting for 6 years in the Assesment of need process – I suppose if I put him on a swing I could claim if he accidentally fell off Oh yeah better make sure there are no signs telling me how to use the swing
500 hundred people turned up to bote against his Re Population plan for Ireland ha ha ha . Nothing in the Dennis owned media , only good old RTE, they must be giving him an example of independent Journalism a head of their 55 million rewuest ha ha ha
Pne of his TDs tells the trurth about Asylum seekers , and it dies not make the printed news . Only RTE ha ha ha ha
@Paul Whelan: The same with the trial over Jackie Healy Rae, only Virgin reported that. We do live in a media controlled by the state?
Another few months putting up with the fools Leo and Simon.I am ashamed to say Simple Simon is a Cork man.The only good thing he is seldom down here.As for Flanagan enough said.I thought Fianna Fáil were bluffers.But this shower.
How will Micky Martin get out of this one.
So ff have been told when they can call the govt to account. Don’t know what’s worse an unelected leader of govt telling the opposition when they can make them accountable or the yellow streak of cowardice that’s called the opposition.
Does he now the smug arrogant, £uck!
Wake me in May zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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