The Department of Social Protection have announced that the Government today agreed €65 million in savings in the areas of fuel, telephone, gas and electricity allowances. By savings they mean mainly cuts. The payments are made to many older people, carers and people with disabilities. Lone parents and those on unemployment payments are also in […]
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Following up on the development of JobBridge an interesting find sent in by a reader. Uniphar advertised on Jobs.ie for a Warehouse Supervisor last week. A few days later an advert for a Warehouse Supervisor appeared on JobBridge.ie – exact same job, no pay and no contribution to the wages from Uniphar. The farce […]
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Last week the HSE published a report that has been three years in the making on the lives of people with disabilities in Ireland who live in congregated settings. There has been very little coverage of its contents or recommendations and I wonder following the Primetime programme on the abuse of people with disabilities and […]
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This week the Seanad will debate a motion in private members time proposed by members of the nominated senators group – the so called Endapendents. Given the reduction in the numbers of committees announced by the government last week the opportunities for experts, organisations and communities to present issues to parliamentarians will be noticeably less. […]
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A Guest post from the Equality and Rights Alliance Prevention is better than cure. A stitch in time save nine. Tūs maith leath na hoibre. How many sayings are there about taking precautionary steps in order to ensure a better outcome? But how many times do we actually take their salutary lessons into account in […]
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