Liveline thread 09/04/2013 to 19/7/2013

my friend

Another chap who wants his outgoings to determine the aid that the State will provide

ThisRegard

vicwatson wrote: »

10 Miscarriages due to stress??

Didn't he say he's only on job seekers just over a year ? Doesn't really tally.

vicwatson

He cleans all day...."there's only so much cleaning you can do"...........LOL

Roger_007

Since when is private health insurance a right?

ThisRegard

Joe doesn't like this guy two fold, talks sense, and has a nordy accent so Joe will assume he's a provo trying to wind him up.

VinLieger

HAH!!! bye bye sky

snubbleste

A tv is a luxury imho

Hamilcar

Sky's the limit

pc7

VinLieger wrote: »

HAH!!! bye bye sky

Weird I just got a mail from UPC saying my bill is going up, think it'll be hello sky!

PauloMN

FFS. Saorview and Freesat has plenty to keep peoples' TV addiction ok.

sudzs

How many cigarettes are allowed??

ooter

If he's working all his life there's no way he'd be getting struck off the jobseekers,he'd have sufficient contributions.
Unless he wasn't paying any tax/prsi..

ThisRegard

Joe knows best, don't bother trying to counteract this rant caller.

pc7

I have to say if I was in that position where the bank where telling me what I could spend down to the cent it'd be a killer.

snubbleste

Sounds like common sense to me.
Why the fake outrage from €300,000pa Joe?

goose2005

I wonder would the BBC be allowed to constantly tell people to cancel their Sky subscription? It's one thing to suggest a few luxuries to cut back on, or say "Satellite/cable TV" but naming a competitor's products as a waste of money is a bit far

artful_codger

If only Cablelink still showed sky sports for free (as a tiny tile with loads of other channels at once).

Yakuza

Ge' rididiskoi

Hamilcar

Just for your info

http://www.isi.gov.ie/en/ISI/GuidelinesUnderSection23-FINAL.pdf/Files/GuidelinesUnderSection23-FINAL.pdf

Roger_007

PauloMN wrote: »

FFS. Saorview and Freesat has plenty to keep peoples' TV addiction ok.

I dumped Sky two years ago. I got Sat4Free box for €55 and its cost me nothing since. Why does anyone pay Sky for what they can get for nothing.

snubbleste

ooter wrote: »

If he's working all his life there's no way he'd be getting struck off the jobseekers,he'd have sufficient contributions.
Unless he wasn't paying any tax/prsi..

He said it was a year on jobeekers, then it's mean-tested and as his wife earns too much, well...

Roger_007

ALL treatment for cancer is provided free at the point of delivery by HSE. It is one of the things they do well.

ThisRegard

There'll be more "debate".

Not on your show Joe, debate usually involves having to listen to a different opinion than your own.

ooter

snubbleste wrote: »

He said it was a year on jobeekers, then it's mean-tested and as his wife earns too much, well...

Strange,maybe the rules have changed.
If It's because his wife is working why did they give him jobseekers at all?

BPKS

I was listening to liveline in the car today.

The Dublin guy who did the "deal with the bank" and tried to come across as some sort of hero to the people was halarious. He was telling how the banks would ring him "in the dead of night. Well not in the dead of night but in the evening".

I could hear to disappointment in Joe's voice when it became clear that the bank werent phoning yer man in the "dead of the night".

withless

Joe really does a lot more harm than good.

When do the new standards kick in? Not feckin soon enough.

redtelephone

ooter wrote: »

Strange,maybe the rules have changed.
If It's because his wife is working why did they give him jobseekers at all?

AFAIK there are two things here, Jobseekers Benefit and Jobseekers Allowance. The way it works is that he gets Jobseekers Benefit which lasts for one year (if he has enough PRSI contributions), no matter what income his wife has. Jobseekers Benefit ends after a year, (actually 9 months from April 2013), and then he can claim Jobseekers Allowance, which is means tested, so everything is taken into account including savings and his wife's income. Depending on what that is he might get a reduced rate of Jobseekers Allowance, or if her income is above a certain level, he might get nothing.

dvcireland

Today on Liveline, Joe speaks to Colin, who may be out of a job because of the Rolf Harris scandal:

http://www.fakefaces.co.uk/lookalikes.html?lookalike_id=672

IvyTheTerrible

dvcireland wrote: »

Today on Liveline, Joe speaks to Colin, who may be out of a job because of the Rolf Harris scandal:

http://www.fakefaces.co.uk/lookalikes.html?lookalike_id=672

Next week on Liveline: Joe talks to Colin, victim of mistaken identity in a vigilante assault

neris

joe to be $hit stirring today over how terrible it is that his "beloved" bord gais energy theatre has been put into receivership and the "wonderful, fantastic, marvellous" harry crosbie been hounded by nama and the banks