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AN AUSTRALIAN MINISTER has told homeowners to “automatically ask anyone with an Irish accent” to leave.
Speaking at the launch of a campaign raising awareness of conmen who prey on the elderly, Consumer Affairs Minister Marlene Kairouz warned homeowners to avoid answering the door to Irish-accented callers.
Kairouz said:
If anybody knocks on your door that has an Irish accent, automatically ask them to leave.
The campaign is fronted by a woman who claims she was conned out of money by Irish-accented workers and the 9News report says the accent is a “common theme”. However, the remarks caused a backlash online.
One comment says:
“Well Minister, I am an Irish Community Nurse who knocks on many doors every day to provide care for people of all nationalities in this beautiful country. Shame on you for your ignorance and sweeping statement.”
Another reads:
She is an absolute disgrace. I’m an Irish backpacker in Australia the last 2 years, of which I spent 6 months working as a locksmith in Melbourne.
“Daily, I had to knock on elderly peoples doors to assist them with their issues. Can you begin to imagine the impact that an uneducated comment like this on national TV would have?”
In a series of tweets, Kairouz apologised for causing offence.
“Yesterday I made a comment at a scam awareness campaign launch that caused offence to people with Irish heritage. Recent scammers have been backpackers from the UK and Ireland & I was giving this info to the public. I admit I delivered this message poorly.
“I sincerely apologise for causing offence and my poor choice of words.”
Around 70,000 Irish-born people call Australia home, while a further two million Aussies can trace their heritage to the island.
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It’s sickening. Just to throw the thing in the bin costs €112m+. And Childline having to scale back services because of a €140k shortfall. Sickening.
Well done KPMG.
The loss of auditing fees from these banks when you were their auditors should be covered by this little windfall.
spot on John!
Amen John.
A hundred million to fatten up their cronies wallets with Irish taxpayer’s money.
They should be forensically investigated and jailed for their criminality.
KPMG “We audit the way you want us to!”
Where is that girl who’s daddy is high up in KPMG now?
What a pathetic stupid comment !!!
And here come the FG/FF/Lab brigade to tell us that the bank bailout has absolutely nothing to do with austerity.
Sure whats a few hundred billion between us and our good buddies in Europe eh lads.
It was all your fault shakka.
Have to love the line were it states the accelerated windup ONLY cost the state 109 million, This is money that could have funded sections were they are cutting the f**k out of services.
This is an obscene amount of money to pay to wind up this failed bank. Why wasn’t a fee agreed in advance and a proper quotation system used. This total cost should be recovered from the auditors of Anglo as they should not have signed off on their accounts saying they were fine.
Next..investigation into KPMG… 6 months later…Investigation into KPMG costs state 100 million… Lawyers, accountants and Bankers…. They have it sussed goodo they do..
Borders on lazy journalism to just regurgitate a government press release and give a figure of e100m as the cost. The _true_ cost is the difference between what the state paid for the loans and what they were sold for.
Good luck getting that information, there’s no way IBRC will give it out.
It merely shows how corrupt this so-called Republic has become. The Republic is dead, long live the Republic.
What a waste.
Couldn’t that money have been used to employ more politicians and pay to help them travel around the country?
How can we be sure these figures are correct? Perhaps there needs to be an audit!
The KPMG charges are astronominical!
Day light robbery!
Weren’t they AIBPs Auditors?
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