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POLICE IN SOUTH Belfast have issued 40 Covid 1 fines and a further four Covid 2 prohibition notices after attending the scene of a house party in the early hours this morning.
After initially breaking up the party, the PSNI were again called to the scene after the party restarted following their departure from the area.
Sergeant Stuart Jackson said: “Just before 12.40am this morning, Police received a report about a large, noisy house party in the Penrose Street area. Officers attended a terraced property and located a large number of people inside.
“At one point, 19 people locked themselves in a bedroom and initially refused to come out. A further two people were found hiding in the attic.”
In Northern Ireland, there are three types of notices that can be issued to people for breaking the Covid-19 rules. Under the current restrictions, households are not allowed to mix indoors.
A Covid 1 notice carries a minimum fine of £60 and is aimed at tackling anti-social behaviour or gatherings.
A Covid 2 notice is a prohibition notice and requires premises to stop what is considered to be unsafe activity. They can be issued to licenced premises or can be used to restrict house parties. If a premises breaches a prohibition notice, they can face a fine of up to £5,000 on conviction.
Sergeant Jackson added: “After issuing 32 Covid 1 notices, four Covid 2 notices and two fixed penalty tickets, police officers remained at the scene until people left the area. Just after 8.15am this morning, police received a further complaint that a party had restarted at the same address. Police again attended and issued a further eight Covid 1 notices.
People must understand that the current health restrictions are not a game. Across Northern Ireland, people are making sacrifices, not visiting family members or friends and businesses have temporarily closed.
The young people congregating or travelling to this area really need to consider their actions for their own health and that of the community of this residential area. Where appropriate, we will now engage with our University and Further Education partners, who may consider taking action if any of their students were involved with this party.
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Absolute sham. My wife was unemployed recently and had to register with Seetac to help her find employment. After been given the run around, she eventually got a job without their help. They found out and sent her a form to get her to sign and say that they got her the job! Thanks to this article I see why they wanted her signature. Frauds.
@paul christopher cox: I hear they only get a couple of days training, how is someone who gets a couple of days training qualified yo help people find work?
sounds more like they’re part of this sham of a pyramid scheme,
get a friend to work in Seetec and you’ll get a bonus, more like shoddy sales people.
@paul christopher cox: I assume she didn’t give her signature? You should post the form on line.
Another way of the Government’s cooking the book’s about unemployment in Ireland, simple. Cheap labour for the companies using it without really having too hire a person full time. I know some people got job’s but it’s very few over the year’s.
I was with seetec when it started first,I got my own employment,just a week before I was due to start employment I got a letter stating the position wasn’t suitable for me,found out in the end that seetec were friends with the company,so the cost me employment,end it now and end the failed buissness woman who runs it too.
Regina Doherty should be absolutly ashamed of herself standing over this scam,this government just throws money at problems hoping it goes away.people on social welfare after twelve months should be retrained and reskilled in a job that there hoping to do.instead we get a private company putting fear into people about cutting off there social welfare.
@dick dastardly: Regina is a FG sociopath…so no she doesn’t do ‘Shame’
A very expensive con job by FG to cook the books on employment in the country. Homelessness and unemployment are far higher in reality, abject poverty abounds in the country, and all people hear are lies from FG.
@Dave Doyle: “Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty said her department selects clients for the JobPath service by means of a random selection process.”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha…
Shameful carry on, even after their scam has been found out.
@yoser hughes: The staff only get a couple with of days training, says it all really.
“Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty said her department selects clients for the JobPath service by means of a random selection process.”
This is another one of her lies. The government created a PEX system with various details of a person. This system does not randomly select a person. It selects the person according to their details on the system which is not a random selection.
She also claimed that she only got two complaints but this is also a lie. She received hundreds if not thosands of complaints about Seetec and Turas Nua. She also claims its a great success and puts down the jobs growth to Jobpath which is also a huge lie. Only 7% of the 210,000 people who attended Seetec and Turas Nua got full time jobs. Those 210,000 is not even everybody that was on the live register/ A lot more people got jobs without the help of Jobpath. Then theres the fact that everybody thats on Jobpath is off the live register , people doing various schemes like CE and TUS are off the live register and people who are doing courses are off the live register. She is a complete liar
@Steve Farrell: The PEX system is for internal SW case officers not jobpath etc so she’s right
@Steve Farrell: if Regina Doherty had a brain she would be dangerous. Where did we get this one from? We scraped the bottom of the barrel with her, a disaster like the rest of her party.
@Murr Paul: The pex system is not just for Social Welfare officers.
The books need cooking and FFG are master chefs ….
My friend worked for 17 year’s with a company, was made redundant and got a few bob. He was made wait a copius amount of time for his welfare to go through. 1 MONTH later he was sent a letter regarding 1 of these schemes. He was made go to work with the Council and had never a chance of getting a job, was told out straight by a worker. All for an extra 20 Euro a week which went on petrol. He soon copped on and all of a sudden had an awful pain in his back. Went on sick pay for 4 months while he searched for the job HE was entitled to get. The more people that copy this the quicker this scheme gets the boot. Frauds.
Riducolous having to do it once.
@KJmadra.: why?
@Dannyboy-cos: Because its a huge waste of time.
With all but zero unemployment and the country relying on eastern Europeans to do menial jobs . It’s time we came down hard on the core group of people who feel the state has to look after them from cradle to grave .
@jerry slattery: The country would be far better off if the government came down hard on the banks and vulture funds, the car insurance cartel. The corrupt will always look after the corrupt and tell people it’s the poor who are to blame.
@jerry slattery: I agree jerry our politicians are laughing all the way to the bank creaming it for life on the backs of taxpayers
@jerry slattery: Plenty of eastern Europeans on jobpath and jobpath isn’t dublin based come to waterford and donegal and talk to me about zero unemployment
@Murr Paul: I’m in county Waterford. There f**k al jobs available. I was in a CE Scheme interview two weeks ago and I didn’t get that even.
@Steve Farrell: f@@k all jobs? just went to jobs.ie and 164 jobs listed in Waterford , no doubt other recruitment sites have many more jobs listed
@jerry slattery: that’s right you sanctimonious p***k go ahead there with your ignorant generalization , I have been unemployed for over 2 years and have applied for positions as far as mayo while living in Tipperary town with an official unemployment rate of 38.2%. I hope everything stays fine for you because obviously if your employer closes down your sense of social smugness and self satisfaction means you couldn’t possibly sign on what with the fact we have zero unemployment it just wouldn’t be acceptable would it? Get yourself down from your high f****ng horse you d***head
@Stephen Kearon: 164 jobs , right so a non brickkie can apply for a brickie job , a non carpenter can apply for a carpenter job ? I see they’re looking for a consultant cardiologist in ardkeen you think I should throw my hat into the ring for that ? Ya never know … fool
@Stephen Kearon: I go there every day too along with Indeed.ie , monsyer.ie and Jobsireland.ie. Did you even check what the qualifications they want for the majority of those jobs? I have applied to every single job on those websites that do not need qualifications that I don’t have.
@Stephen Kearon: As a matter of fact I received a rejection email from Campus Garage a few minutes ago.
The Government should come up with a one off payment to the chronically unemployable to emigrate for at least 3 years.
It’s rather ironic that those who are eminently employable emigrate and the welfare addicts stay at home!
@Moorooka Mick: We know where we can get work that lets us have a roof over our heads and treated with respect!
We have reported HUNDREDS of abuses. We have spoke to thousands. We investigated this racket for three and a half years. We have reported it to Dail committees and have spoken at them presenting a MOUNTAIN of evidence (available at unitedpeople.ie)
Assaults, attempted suicides, Stealing. People ending up on depression drugs.
Highcourt faked evidence exposed. Lied to highcourt judges. Guilty of infringing human rights.
MASSIVE law breaking by the Department of Social Protection and the companies involved.
Possible massive financial fraud, illegal blackmail, unconstitutional acts and more.
ALL ignored by FG. They are woring hard to keep this all buried from national attention.
Now €200+ for a 91% failure rate and Regina Doherty spin this as a success?
End the crap FG – and end the JobPath racket.
I was 39 weeks pregnant and had been on the dole 4 months and they were forcing me to go to meetings and apply for jobs. After my child was born they continued to harass me and never told me I should be changing payment to opfp and had me going for meetings and interviews when my baby was 5 weeks old. At that stage I was actually asked during an interview did i not feel bad leaving my baby so young, i was being given no choice until i was informed by other parents I was entitled to change payment. Whole system is a joke.
On another note, theirs a lab tech in my local university that’s been on “sick leave” for the last 3yrs, taking 60k per year. Can’t get rid of her and have to rely on temp contracts for people to cover her, they don’t stay due to lack of job security. An old time civil servant with a water tight contract, I’m sure the system is full of them. Yet, I imagine a lot of them are on here slagging job seekers when they should be working themselves. Tax payers forever picking up the tab.
Careful now, she’s losing this argument and her credibility is falling, she might start accusing people of bullying her again!
Taxpayers like you and me have yi pay 150 Million, that could have helped working people like myself have a cheaper place to live.
The turas nua crowd go through some staff themselves. Pyramid scheme is right!
We have reported HUNDREDS of abuses. We have spoke to thousands. We investigated this racket for three and a half years. We have reported it to Dail committees and have spoken at them presenting a MOUNTAIN of evidence (available at unitedpeople.ie)
Assaults, attempted suicides, Stealing. People ending up on depression drugs.
Highcourt faked evidence exposed. Lied to highcourt judges. Guilty of infringing human rights.
MASSIVE law breaking by the Department of Social Protection and the companies involved.
Possible massive financial fraud, illegal blackmail, unconstitutional acts and more.
ALL ignored by FG. They are working hard to keep this all buried from national attention.
Now €200+ MILLION for a 91% failure rate and Regina Doherty spin this as a success?
End the crap FG – and end the JobPath racket. This is a national inquiry in the making right NOW – and that’s going to cost the state even more money!
I’ve been a housewife for many years, so no skills outside the home, apart from child minding, when my husband was unemployed we signed on and I was told to apply for this scheme, 3 interviews later I was told by all potential employers that I needed to get some experience as they didn’t have time to train me even though these schemes are apparently for people who need experience! My husband was taken on by a company who told him he was over skilled and basically left him practically running the place after a few weeks all for an extra 50€ a week, All the employers want is free labour absolute joke.
This job path garbage makes my blood boil, yesterday I had my first meeting on my second job path term having finished the first just before Xmas. Random selection my a@@e, why is it me whose always randomly selected for “ interviews” and such with the social ,yet the fellas who are 10 20 even 30 years on the scratch seem never to be selected, I even got cut for not attending one of these charades because at an actual interview. Anyway at yesterday’s Stasi interview the woman went through the usual s**te before turning to me and saying “well you know the chances of us finding anything for someone your your qualifications/experience is more ir less zero “.. It’s a pointless waste of time and resources which I s intended simply to massage the figures
Part time, harrased by these guys about attending… Like my job, they don’t care, so I have a formal letter prepared to leave it. Not mandatory anymore apparently.
@No One Important: Its still mandatory. Fine Gael ignored the vote to abolish it.
And before all the nazi / blue shirt sympathizers come out and hit me with the old full employment chestnut, I’m I. Tipperary town where the official male unemployment rate is 38.2% , this figure doesn’t include people in Ce schemes or on the afore mentioned job path
If that 3000 euro sent over to England for each job was spent doing a real training course with real merit at the end it would be a whole lot better.. Instead FG choose to pay a UK company to make the figures look better..
Typical approach from Provisional SF, happy to have normal tax payers fund welfare as a lifestyle for their work shy voters.
Rather than wasting more tax payers money on Jobpath, just do what most other countries do, make welfare payments proportional to contributions made, and taper payments over time.
@Stephen Kearon: You have’t a clue what you are talking about.
Wr have nurses, part-time firemen, dental technicians and other professionals – many of them – all coming to us reporting massive harrassment and abuse. They are NOT all sitting on their arse. This is the crap FG want you to fall for – and you are doing do.
There is always an element of laziness in every state but the vast majority of people being abused, stolen from, press-ganged and more in this expensive racket – that is also burning your taxpayer money – are decent, good people.
We politely suggest you do your deeper homework and read some of the hundreds of victim statements that we presented to the Oireachtas. ALL free to download at unitedpeople.ie.
@Unitedpeople: by saying Provisional Sinn Fein in his first line he had already admitted to know knoing what he was talking about.
@Unitedpeople: are you a registered political party with SIPO, do you have any elected representatives, or are you a few unelectable keyboard warriors with zero mandate?
@Stephen Kearon: Whose Provisonal SF never heard of them,?As for you’re FF here is a few recaps on what they have done before getting turfed out the last time.
They are the ones who started this thing of having people work for nothing, Who remembers supermarket jobs and others as interns.
Then you have hannifin who increased the retirement age to 68 while drawing down her own pension well before 60.
@Stephen Kearon: we are a registered party but if people were not lazy they could find this out for themselves easy.
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Truth and solid evidence stands be it from a citizen, a party or any other org. For the record, on Oireachtas record and in the Dublin highcourts were our evidence was presented and stood unchallenged, it was accepted there as truth too.
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Mind you, if there you had looked at the website this would be easy found too. And then you try accusing others of laziness…
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Please do more deeper research before massively inaccurately tarring all with your wide brush. Thank you and good health.
@Dave Byrne: No idea where this provisional SF is coming from here. Our ideology is about democracy reform, greater elected accountability and people ability at local and national to increase, more often.
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You are 100% right about FF (and the Greens) being original responsibe for the start of this massive costly racket. It was introduced via the memo of understanding signed with the troika.
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All this and more is highly detailed in our third report on this racket. Available for free on our website. All the best.
@Stephen Kearon: Your a bitch.
Slaves that’s all they are .make you puke company’s get 3000 euro for rack person that works as a slave
Is jobpath not a relic of the fg-labour coalition. Job bridge was scrapped so why can’t this be. Again its just helping dress up the dole figures
Maybe if some of these lazy people get off there asses and get a job then they wouldn’t have to go on these job paths. Keep it going and they might change there tune. Too many people sponging off the state that never worked a day in there lives. Also Regina is useless and always was.
@Mark Luxford: I get off my ass every day applying for work. We don’t all live in areas when the jobs are abunbdant. I went to an interview two weeks ago for a CE scheme because no employer was replying to my job applications and I can’t even seem to get a CE Scheme.
Also you have no clue how JobPath works. They have you do two or three one courses which are of no help , they have you apply for jobs online and they send you out to local businesses with your CV and cover letter ocasionaly. That’s all they do in JobPath.
@Mark Luxford: no clue at do you?
Regina Doherty and this government need to go, Ffs….. can people not see what they’re doing to our country! They’re a useless, incompetent, corrupt and elitist shower of wasters!
Nobody is entitled to a job. You have to build up experience and knowledge to to make you eligible to be considered by an employer.
What they don’t tell you is that you’re not legally forced to sign the Personal Progression Plan, even though the PowerPoint presentation slides will say you have to. It’s also a contract and if you’re forced to sign a contract under threat of benefit sanction, the contract is void and can’t be enforced. Seetec also have two addresses (they’ll only show one). Their second address is 1 Stokes Place St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.. A small, non-descript building which also has over 360 other companies registered there…..
there was a vote by Oireactas to end these referrals so are they still going on and what happens to people already in the system. I speak from an employer perspective where my part-time employee is currently being hassled into taking menial work because it is full-time.
It plays the figures for the government… And looks after the NGO who does the torture, thanks IMF.
“This means a third initial referral fee of €311 paid in respect of the same person three times. That is a total of €933 in referral fees for the same person. ”
Why are NGO full of pals of those in political parties and in governments as well?
This is a total Scam,I’m on it for the 2nd time,I have a friend who was recently made redundant so he signed on and within two weeks he recieved a letter to enrol with Turas Nua the man did not even recieve a dole payment before being sent on this scam.
It is a fantastic way for FG to keep the lie going that we are at or near full employment ,the facts and the truth are there is another 200k plus people unemployed in this country but thanks to scams like this they can manipuliate the actuial unemployment figures,and sadly the sheep believe the lie.
My experience of Turas Nua has been attempted Bullying and total garbage it is a waste of tax payers money and peoples time and the sooner it’s made redundant the better.
If things are so rosey on the unemployment front according to FG why is there a need for this Job Path Scam and all the other little Scams they have going,The Reason is to keep the unemployment figures looking good.
A recent private members debate in the Dail had Ever TD in the Dail Voting for the Job Path Scam to End,this included the Labour Party who set it up first day,calling it a failed excercise.However FG Refused and carried on with the lie that it’s the greatest thing ever and they have had No complaints from anyone on the Scheme and people were on it because they wanted to be.
Http://www.basicincomeireland.com
What an idiot this woman is .. if there was a prize for being and idiot she’d come second. . Do you know why she’d come second ,because she’s an idiot…
Regina Doherty is a muppet. She should be fired.This stupid scheme does not work.It only serves to put money in the hands of those terrible greedy contractors Turas Nua and Seetec.I hope a bad fortune finds all the parties at fault.
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