Dole 'summer bonus' .. are they for real?

This is great news. More money for pints in the pub and backing horses in the bookies. Think i'll stick that 208 euro on a single horse. I currently have six kids for the extra benefits and will be thrown out of the house when 16 as no longer be of use to me. The local council kit out my council house so that's all good there.

Thank you tax payer, you work so I don't have to.

You don't actually believe that do you? Plenty of people have no intention of ever working and claiming benefits for the rest of their lives.

Yes I do. They don't hand out money just because you ask.

How many?

Have a look at social housing, people getting free houses with no intention of ever working.

There in every town and village in Ireland.

Also people on illness benefit as they got a note from there doctor even though there capable of working.

Ever see Turas Nua or whatever its called. There job is basically forcing people to go to work and getting people off long term employment who have no intention of working whatsoever.

The two of you are probably the most naive people I've ever seen posting.

Way to not answer the question X 2

How actually naïve are you? 😂

I'm sure all the scumbags in dublin are dying to get to work. 😂 They know how to work the system and are defrauding the state but know how to go about it to get their money every week. Its not rocket science to do.

Those on PUP had to continue to pay their mortgages or rent - all of which are more than the ~€30 rent charged to those on Jobseekers social welfare in local authority housing. And where those jobseekers were in private housing there is payments made to landlords directly on behalf of the tennant.

Secondly, PUP at €350 per week doesn't come with a free medical card either.

Thirdly, there was no fuel allowance payments made to PUP recipients - let alone the additional balloon payments made last month

When talking about Jobseekers social welfare and what they get - there is alot more than the €208 per week into their hands to consider.

Minimum wage in this country barely clears €350 after taxes.

Your talking absolute nonsense, you know nothing of the amount of people working the system.

Your living in fuc king cloud cuckoo land.

Spot on - and add into the mix the bonuses paid bankers and property developers who drove the country into debt and recession, the bonuses paid to the C-Suite in the public services like health who have it almost in ruin.

Bonuses paid to already wealthy in the form of 5K grants to buy a new EV.

Meanwhile the rest of us who work hard, do a good job and get paid a bit more than minimum wage can go swing for any sort of state support. They dream up of ever increasing ways of taxing us be it carbon taxes, MUP, higher motor taxes if you can't afford to change your car, and so forth.

The truth is there are ones gaming the system at both ends of the spectrum, the bottom end don't want to work, the top end don't want to work hard and both love dipping into the public purse for their bag of silver.

They sure know how to antagonise those of us on low wages