Combat Poverty sounded rather worthy. It was meant to sound worthy. It did combat poverty for some. The basic qualifications were being an IRA murderer with convictions to prove it or having a face that fitted. Then it came to public notice and they got reorganized as a branch of another government mob. The Irish government is very good at wasting money. This was just one example. No doubt there are many others.
Combat Poverty Agency - Working For A Poverty Free Ireland
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The Combat Poverty Agency has been integrated with the Office for Social Inclusion to form the Social Inclusion Division within the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Our offices and library are now located at Gandon House, Amiens Street, Dublin 1
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What a worthy little outfit? No! A worthy cause hijacked by freeloaders on the make.
Combat Poverty is a government funded quango with a staff of 35 which gave €865,120 to ex-prisoners; that means IRA thugs with convictions to prove it while spending €2,276,065 on wages. They managed to dispose of €889,499 on rent and admin, rather more than those alleged victims came in for. Their average pay is €65,000 which is a lot better than the average man gets. Throw in the job security, a big plus with depression looming and an inflation proof pension and ask yourself whether the tax payers are getting value.Irish Quango Funds IRA Criminals Fraudulently [ 26 September 2008 ]
Bonus benefits are that one of the groups they give money to is run by an aspiring murderer and another one spent almost €700,000 to do up one house. In other words a very large most of the money given to those victims was stolen.
That's how one government runs things. Are the
rest different? This is in a western country where corruption is not rampant in
the way you expect in Nigeria. More on this nasty little bit of corruption at
Six 'ex-prisoner' groups get almost €1m annually and
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Figures supplied to Stormont last December from the EU
show that "ex-prisoners" groups -- many of which double as Sinn Fein centres
-- raked in more than €20m from the European Union Peace Fund alone between
2002 and last year and are clearly continuing to receive other funding from
both the British and Irish Governments even though the last
IRA prisoner was released in 2000.
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Crime pays big time.