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Solution to non-nationals getting child benefit: No day off for easter.

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  • 14-04-2009 2:15pm
    #1
    ceret
    Registered Users Posts: 189 ✭✭


    I've been reading the thread on non-nationals getting the benefits, specifically them getting child benefit when their children weren't living in ireland. And there's another thread about the public sector getting an extra day off at easter - a 'priviledge day'. And it occurs to me that we can solve 2 birds with one stone.

    According to the Hearld the state paid €4.77million in child benefit to non-resident children in 2007.

    So how much does this privildge day cost the tax payer?
    Well assuming that the average public sector employee gets the statutory minimum 4 weeks holidays (most likely an underestimation), that's 48 weeks or 240 days of paid work per year.

    Assuming there are 300,000 public sector employees and they all only get €25,000 per year (this is a massive underestimation), the public sector pay bill is €7,500,000,000 or €7.5billion. That's €31,250,000 per each day worked.

    So public sector employees getting an extra paid day off for easter costs the state at least 6 times as much as non-nationals claiming child benefit for children that aren't here.


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