is it time you chucked it all in and just signed on?
an arresting title!
I enjoyed that read; if his numbers are accurate, it’s an indictment of our social welfare policy.
Stopped… reading… about… here:
wow, it makes a fair argument about why rents might be so high.
The only good thing to come out of this would be a excel spreadsheet making the case with the correct figures 
Poor, very poor.
One line recognition of the fact that the rent allowance scheme is the biggest private subsidy to the landlord sector but not called so is a joke.
So who is ripping off who
Mrs C had a hairdressers
A member of staff asked her to interview her friend. She interviewed a girl who wanted to be paid on the black? why?
She was openly honest that she was receiving (rounded)
€800 p/m lone parents
€800 p/m childerns allowance
€900 p/m assistance with mortgage
€600 p/m in nixers
She was living with her husband however she was claiming lone parents and mortgage assistance and he was working full time
€1200 p/m is what she wanted from her “job”
€4300 in the hand…not bad if you can scam it…