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So State may be paying pensions to 8,000 deceased people. now according to the article a pension is €223 a week. Or for 8000 people for a year €92,778,000. Is it time we had a Minister for Waste because whoever is doing the checking is not doing a very good job.Maybe with a green budget we could have a waste budget detailing all the waste and what was done to stop it.
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Yeah I love these “dole cheats” articles that the government trots out all the time. The Ballymun regeneration project is running over-budget to the tune of half a billion euros, due in no small part to the fucking collapse of building companies that were given the high-paying tax-funded contracts, but hey, let´s get those bloody pensioners.
The government press office is always at this. One story breaks about half a billion in taxpayers´ money wasted by our government contract award system. The press office release a statement about pension cheats, and there you go, front page news. The Irish media are such lazy cunts sometimes.