Covid-19 welfare schemes could cost Ireland €5 billion every three months

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ESRI: Ireland's Covid-19 welfare schemes could cost €5 billion every quarter

Image: Leon Farrell/RollingNews.ie Image: Leon Farrell/RollingNews.ie IRELAND’S COVID-19 WELFARE supports could cost the government nearly €5 billion in three months, according to a new report from the Economic & Social Research Institute .

In the last week of March, 283,037 people were in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment and 25,104 people were receiving money from the Temporary Covid-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme. Barra Roantree, who authored the report, said that the rise in unemployment “will bring significant costs to the exchequer”.

 

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Oh do the government pay for it? ...

One fee 2.500 e will cover 7 payments - believe me is a lot dum...es who will brake the lockdown law., in Romania in some 3-6 days in fees they received 1 mil. have nice Good Friday!

LeoVaradkar FineGael fiannafailparty sinnfeinireland Ah lads & lassies, sure isn't time we took that free money the banks got, back, in the last fin' crisis, and take care of the people for a change. We are arriving in a new world, I believe your cronyism is at an end!!

Might be asking the oil off Ireland’s west coast back then :)

That's what hard working people have been paying their taxes for all their working lives.

So what's the plan Cull the sick?

Here, folks, is the problem with socialism. (One of the problems.) Eventually, we run out of other people’s money.

How much do we give NGOs a year?

Thieving c*nts

Use ths billions that apple owes us

Or a third of the Apple tax we're owed that Leo and FG refuse to take back. All depends on the lens lads...

Maybe it won't be long before we have to look at means testing..stories of part time staff getting more now than when working! Madness! Will have to take spouse income into account,,this can't be let to run,, no state can afford this ,fine for few weeks but for the long haul?no

How much does Apple owe us again About 6 mths of welfare payments.

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