Should Dole in Ireland be cut to €100 a week for a single people, so as to increase jobs in Tourism & Industry?

That's assuming that a single person on their own, independent of any other financial support is eligible and qualifies for all entitlements available, which doesn't always happen for each and every person that is on the dole.

How oh so predictable - every downturn/crisis so often the "solutions" forwarded are effectively yet another manufactured race to the bottom as the fix-all !!!! "forcing people to work" ? what work, Maggie?You also appear to be completely unaware of commodity inflation i.e. food stuffs and fuel etc is set to sky rocket in the coming years, due to the money speculators moving in on them en masse in recent years. Prices are already painfully high for many on low incomes generally, both employed and otherwise anyhow (and actually bound to be higher now from when you claimed to "have lived on less").. Whatever way you choose to measure the "less you lived on" vis-a-vis exchange rate and prices of essentials at the time and place you're talking about compared to the current situation here and now , as anybody can lie about themselves online, the making of such personal claims never has any real credibly. On the other hand you could always perhaps also provide data on the colour of the sky on your planet while you're at it. It must be fun to make all the rules there yourself for everyone too, including it seems what people who disagree with you should and shouldn't be allowed say. Just about every " saving" in Ireland from now and the the foreseeable future is going to repay to ECB/IMF loan in case you don't realise. Tourism won't flourish if people fear an increased crime rate -something bound to happen if your plan was enacted in future particularly to the backdrop of a prolonged ongoing global slump, which is exactly what is on the cards ( that's the reality -not the official spin). If you want to make REAL savings tell the ECB/IMF where to go (pulling out of the single currency if needed) and burn the bank bondholders as has happened in Iceland. Ever wonder why the (Euro-phile controlled) mainstream never mentions the success of Iceland of beating the downturn there since? Nope, didn't think so!

Whoaah. You are on your high horse aren't you? I lost my job when I was off on long term sick- and before you decide I'm a scrounger I wasn't skiving, I had cancer. Out of that €188 comes the €26- not €24 toward rent, so €162. From this €162 comes electricity, food and heating. If you have a phone or internet that comes out too, travel, bin charges, tv licence, gas, etc. Last year I was off sick on the equivalent sickness payment and out of that I had to fund travel to GALWAY for hospital (and I live in DONEGAL). Last winter I had to move my bed into the main room because I couldn't afford to heat the full house, and will likely have to do the same this year. As I have been on the dole less than a year I won't get heating allowance. I've also last month had my neighbour put my TV in their attic because I can't afford to renew the licence and so am limited to Cartlann TG4 and RTE Player. Someone on your calculations actually would qualify for a medical card, look at the allowances.

I kind of agree and disagree with your question. The reason I agree is that yes there are people who are milking the system and need to be stopped but on the other hand there are genuine people who need it because of illness etc. and the majority of these people have either lost there jobs because of illness or other circumstances so they have paid taxes and are entitled to claim back the money they have paid. I know there are thousands on the dole or other benefits and yes it is a massive task to vet everyone and make sure there not making fraudulent claims but I really think the government need to get up off there holes and start looking into it! This would just mean that people who genuinely need it can get on with living there lives and stop having to defend themselves against the public who the majority of think there "milking the state". I can completely sympathize with someone who needs it and I happen to know people who are on the dole because of sudden illness but I can also say that I know people who have an attitude of "im entitled to it so why not?" and that is very very wrong especially since they are very capable of work. So you do have good points but I suppose all I could say to you is put yourself in the position who genuinely need it there just trying to get by on a very flawed system and unfortunately that is another failure of our "amazing" government.

The only thing you haven't explained is how decreasing the dole to single people suddenly creates jobs in the tourist industry & persuades the numbers of people needed to justify creating those jobs to come to Ireland in the first place How does decreasing the dole to force people to work work if there are no jobs to be had?