Dublin mother shares footage of offered council house

That appears to be what she did though? She turned it down and went public, even with the knowledge of how other people were perceived when they went public and their lives were delved into and scrutinised to a degree on here that would make a social welfare inspector blush 😂

The exterior of the premises and the surrounding areas do of course have an impact on anyone’s quality of life and their health, and just from the video alone there are a number of safety hazards which the council are entirely responsible for, no matter who the accommodation is being provided for.

Frankly for all the complaining about how much it costs to accommodate people, I don’t think it’s at all productive to target individuals who aren’t responsible for the accommodation being offered. I hold the council responsible and the likes of DHRE responsible when they’re being funded to the tune of over €100m per annum!

That’s far more worthy of the investigative skills of people on here who are wondering where successive Governments are spending public funds and it appears as though from the state of that shìthole and the condition it’s in, it does give rise to the question of where the fcuk is the money being spent?

Dampness is a recurring complaint in these cases but mostly it caused by tenants not opening their windows. If the council does anything, it will probably just install hole-in-the-vents which will leave a draught. So it is a very unnecessary reason to complain.

Their accommodation certainly is not courtesy of any working men and women, wherever you got that idea. It’s provided by the council who have a responsibility to accommodate people with accommodation needs, and it’s the responsibility of the council if they own the property to ensure it is up to standards. In this particular case, the accommodation falls far short of health and safety standards which are not the tenants responsibility, they are the responsibility of the council.

Nobody is paying anyone to spawn either. They are entitled to the same social protections as anyone in Irish society is entitled to. That’s the responsibility of the State and Government on behalf of the State, to ensure that social protection standards don’t end up with people being forced to live in squalor. It’s not healthy for anyone, let alone children, to be forced to live in those conditions.

You’re wasting your time targeting individuals who are not responsible for the issues created by successive Governments failed leadership and the organisations which are keeping themselves in employment by ensuring that the situation only continues to worsen to the point where accommodation like that is deemed suitable for anyone. People being expected to live in squalor are right to highlight the fact that there’s hundreds of millions of euro being wasted with nothing to show for it.

From the Exchequer if you want to work it right back to where it actually comes from. Nobody gets to decide where Government chooses to spend it’s revenue, so anyone who is of the idea that anyone is provided with accommodation courtesy of working men and women is simply deluding themselves.

I didn’t say that though? I was asked where the money comes from, it comes from the Exchequer. That’s clearly not the same thing as suggesting that anyone’s accommodation is courtesy of working men and women. That’s just silly. There’s plenty of middle managers between the Exchequer and the people who are expected to live in squalor.

I wouldn’t consider offering anyone a shìthole is any kind of a courtesy, nor would I want anyone claiming I was somehow responsible for offering anyone a shìthole and expecting they should be satisfied to live in squalor.

I know it sounds silly to you, but I expect higher standards of people who are tasked with providing accommodation to people who need it, especially when they’re being funded to the tune of €100m per annum in just the Dublin region alone. How much of that do you imagine is funded by whatever the Government decides you shall be taxed in any given year? I know it’s not a whole lot of mine, but again it does beg the question - where IS the money going? Because it’s certainly not going on providing accommodation if that’s the standard of accommodation they’re providing.

But that's not a uniform standard. Not locally, not nationally. It's the luck of the draw, literally.

The cost of a HAP or RAS or whatever type dwelling they are calling it these days, to a local authority in Dublin, is about €25,000 per unit, per year. That's where the money goes.

Coundils get their money from taxes paid by working individuals & companies. Most people agree that our social protection system is a good thing and is there to support people who need help, including providing housing but there's a lot of reports about some people who feel entitled to a similar standard of housing to houses that working people provide for themselves by working & paying back loans for years.

Of course the council should provide decent accomodation and if they own that block of apartments then they need to do something about maintenance because it looks very run-down and neglected. If they dont own it theres not much they can do about the exterior.

It's the classic recipe - a conveyor belt of kids, no father(s) on the scene, a whopper sense of entitlement and zero personal responsibility.

The picture on Google is a few years old so maybe the place has been cleaned up a bit. If the accomodation is wholly unsuitable and unacceptable, how come its ok for the occupants of the other apartments in the block?

TBF the residents can't paint the exterior walls of the block and there are a lot of businesses there, so presumably someone is receiving service charges for the upkeep of the grounds & car park. But it is an old photo and the place might have been spruced up since it was taken.

Ah hold on now, people are allowed to discuss how their taxes are spent. Councils and government make rules that seem unfair to many taxpayers and social protection policies need to be reviewed regularly and changed if needed. Nobody likes to think they are being taken for a mug...

As much as is necessary to bring the accommodation up to suitable living standards.

I know it’s not a magic pot or a bottomless pit of money (although some people act as though it is), but I’m not exaggerating when I suggest that the cost of having the purchase orders done up in triplicate costs more than the tin of paint purchased to paint over that graffiti, as just one example.

There’s huge money being spent and wasted on providing an inefficient service which is top heavy in administration, which is where most of the funding is going, and there’s very little left to provide anything else.

So we're not allowed to talk where our taxes go and how they also others to live comfortably without ever having to lift a finger ,

But she chose to have multiple children with her partner who's likely undeclared to welfare and the council ,so he's likely looking for a separate forever home on another housing list ,bet they have decent cars and enjoy foreign holidays ,

such a hard life living off handouts

Last paragraph there.

Why do you think that?

Well that's the other side of it. Although people do need to take personal responsibility for their own life decisions and choices.

On an unrelated matter, why do people pay so much for these jackets? https://www.adverts.ie/other-coats-jackets/canada-goose/22434187 . If you take a look through the messages at the bottom you even see where people offered to throw out 650 cash for a secondhand jacket.

What would be your most expensive everyday item of clothing that you might buy there yourself?

never been offered a heavily subsisted house in my life , then again i worked all my life and dont have kids i cant afford

live with in you means , or dont

other wise your a parasite on the rest of us

Except Erica Fleming used it on the Ray D'Arcy show and late late show.

Hard luck bud.