Coronavirus - Here for life (In high population density areas)

[Tim_Riggins]

You mistake criticism of policy decisions for caring.

Defending a broad strokes €5 increase in full unemployment times doesn’t make you more caring, it just means you are retreating to simplistic notions of public policy, doing what Johnny Sachs mentioned in terms of recency bias and unable to comprehend numbers. I’d have had no issue with that money going into adult education training, for example, as mentioned below.

Fine Gael - Hugging The Touchline On The Right Wing?

A lot of the money spent by the ETBs is on adult education for those with disabilities through their own services and charities. There is certainly a heap of waste and things could be done better, but there is also an element of keeping people at something day to day which is no bad thing. If we are talking about resource allocation. I get lambasted as uncaring for saying that a €5 a week dole increase is a poor use of resources (and additionally unfair, you had to be earning €50k plus to get …

Further, I’d have no issue with actually going for Nordic country approach with higher initial social welfare for people who have lost their jobs. The one size fits all policy in Ireland I disagree with.

Again here, you claim to be more caring because you react to emotive nonsense. Lockdown was the correct course of action in March 2020 and I would still disagree with those who didn’t do it, but you have continued to ignore outcomes. Outcomes that went far beyond March 2020, believe it or not.