The country is going backwards thanks to the Greed.
Willing-Departure115 on
The report talks about “material deprivation”, which is children who live in a situation where they cannot afford any two out of ten items, including:
two pairs of strong shoes; A warm waterproof overcoat; New (not second-hand) clothes; Replacement of worn-out furniture; A meal with meat, chicken, fish (or vegetarian equivalent) every second day; or a roast joint or its equivalent once a week; home heating during the last year; Presents for family or friends at least once a year; Drinks or a meal for family or friends once a month, a morning, afternoon or evening of entertainment once a fortnight.
So if you can’t afford drinks or a meal for family or friends once a month and an afternoon or evening of entertainment once a fortnight, you’re materially deprived.
It’s a good marker of poverty but also after strong inflation, not surprising to see it up a bit. We have hundreds of thousands of people living solely on welfare and these families on fixed incomes will be hit hard by inflation.
The report also notes that material deprivation among over 65s has fallen.
TheFreemanLIVES on
But they told me that people were paying thousands for EP and Oasis tickets and that everyone is rich these days…. ¯_ (ツ)_/¯
cedardesk on
The reality is the electorate don’t care. 14,000 homeless people, nobody cares, a few kids in poverty that they can’t see isn’t a cause for concern.
People cry about a breakdown in society, like being afraid to go into Dublin city for example…then the majority of them will vote for FF/FG *again* and wonder why things aren’t getting better.
AhhhhBiscuits on
I have no douth that there are kids that don’t get fed. In three of the schools in Ballyfermot, breakfast is provided in the morning before school. In my sons school there are kids who are not getting proper meals at home so a hot meal is provided is provided at lunch time.
But…here is the other side of it. The schools in Ballyfer provide breakfats, but if the kids are late they don’t get it. Kids are late due to parent being off their biscuit on drink and or drugs. So they get the lunch and not much when they go home.
So, to that end, up-ing the child benefit wouldn’t help certain people, because said parent will spend it on drugs. I think a voucher for a supermarket or shop for clothes would be more benifical. Every child deserves a full belly and i would hate for the money given to their parents to help their children to go on drugs.
sheppi9 on
We should set up a homeless tenting area in phoenix park. Lets see them ignore that
mrgoyette on
Why is this level of inequality tolerated?
MaelduinTamhlacht on
Why are people blaming drugs, when there are regularly articles in the papers about working parents who have to get meals at Penny Dinners and the like?
Blaming parents “off their biscuit” (new phrase to me) is just a repeat of the Victorian attitude of “the deserving poor” versus “the undeserving poor” that was the basis of England’s vile actions during the Famine of 1845-1852.
IrishCrypto on
This is horrible. I remember seeing a kid from a very poor family take a half eaten sandwich from a bin in the school yard in the early 90s at lunch and eat it. They came to school with a partial uniform and were always very unkempt.
I grew up for a period in fairly poor circumstances judging by the measures in the article but never that bad.
Really anti poverty measures are an investment not an expense as giving desperately poor kids basic nutrition and warmth helps us all. Angry desperate poor kids become angry desperate poor adults and never shed the damage.
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The country is going backwards thanks to the Greed.
The report talks about “material deprivation”, which is children who live in a situation where they cannot afford any two out of ten items, including:
two pairs of strong shoes; A warm waterproof overcoat; New (not second-hand) clothes; Replacement of worn-out furniture; A meal with meat, chicken, fish (or vegetarian equivalent) every second day; or a roast joint or its equivalent once a week; home heating during the last year; Presents for family or friends at least once a year; Drinks or a meal for family or friends once a month, a morning, afternoon or evening of entertainment once a fortnight.
So if you can’t afford drinks or a meal for family or friends once a month and an afternoon or evening of entertainment once a fortnight, you’re materially deprived.
It’s a good marker of poverty but also after strong inflation, not surprising to see it up a bit. We have hundreds of thousands of people living solely on welfare and these families on fixed incomes will be hit hard by inflation.
The report also notes that material deprivation among over 65s has fallen.
But they told me that people were paying thousands for EP and Oasis tickets and that everyone is rich these days…. ¯_ (ツ)_/¯
The reality is the electorate don’t care. 14,000 homeless people, nobody cares, a few kids in poverty that they can’t see isn’t a cause for concern.
People cry about a breakdown in society, like being afraid to go into Dublin city for example…then the majority of them will vote for FF/FG *again* and wonder why things aren’t getting better.
I have no douth that there are kids that don’t get fed. In three of the schools in Ballyfermot, breakfast is provided in the morning before school. In my sons school there are kids who are not getting proper meals at home so a hot meal is provided is provided at lunch time.
But…here is the other side of it. The schools in Ballyfer provide breakfats, but if the kids are late they don’t get it. Kids are late due to parent being off their biscuit on drink and or drugs. So they get the lunch and not much when they go home.
So, to that end, up-ing the child benefit wouldn’t help certain people, because said parent will spend it on drugs. I think a voucher for a supermarket or shop for clothes would be more benifical. Every child deserves a full belly and i would hate for the money given to their parents to help their children to go on drugs.
We should set up a homeless tenting area in phoenix park. Lets see them ignore that
Why is this level of inequality tolerated?
Why are people blaming drugs, when there are regularly articles in the papers about working parents who have to get meals at Penny Dinners and the like?
Blaming parents “off their biscuit” (new phrase to me) is just a repeat of the Victorian attitude of “the deserving poor” versus “the undeserving poor” that was the basis of England’s vile actions during the Famine of 1845-1852.
This is horrible. I remember seeing a kid from a very poor family take a half eaten sandwich from a bin in the school yard in the early 90s at lunch and eat it. They came to school with a partial uniform and were always very unkempt.
I grew up for a period in fairly poor circumstances judging by the measures in the article but never that bad.
Really anti poverty measures are an investment not an expense as giving desperately poor kids basic nutrition and warmth helps us all. Angry desperate poor kids become angry desperate poor adults and never shed the damage.
Vote Fine Gael!