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MINISTER JOAN BURTON said she values the free travel scheme that is to be reviewed by a working group.
Speaking on Newstalk Breakfast, the Social Protection Minister said the scheme “has been cash limited since about 2010 but it’s operating and it’s operating quite well”.
It was announced yesterday that a working group will look at the scheme. The minister said that they will look at any issues that the operators have and the Department of Transport has.
The Minister said she “very much value[s]” the free travel arrangements.
She said that her department was spending €77million a year on the scheme and that they were required by Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar to cooperate in a review of the scheme.
“This is an examination – this is a review,” she said.
Transport operators have raised with the Transport Minister issues they have with some elements of the scheme.
Minister Burton said there were some suggestions that there may be issues about how the scheme actually works, and that some operators might want more money for the scheme. She added that “we may in fact be able to strengthen it; we may be able to get better value”.
She concluded that of some of the comments she has seen in relation to this particular review, “I would say to be honest… they are a bit wildly speculative”.
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That’s a sentence
@David Harries: life without possibility of parole would be better but 40 years is a start! Irish system could learn! Start with doubling most sentences given seems about right
@kevinhunt101: The problem with the Irish System is that there is an over emphasis on custodial sentences for non-violent/serious crimes. If more people were given suspend sentences which involved monitoring and work for the state then it would (I) potentially self-fund itself (ii) reduce the overcrowding problem with our prisons.
This would then free up the necessary space for the people who are an actual danger to society to be imprisoned for longer.
@Thn: agree, large fines and compulsory payments (taken from income source) for non violent crimes need to be implemented! Free up prison space for non violent crimes! Also more solitary confinement for violent and repeat offenders. Planned murder should be min 40 years no possibility of parole, no good behavior taken into account, no good family person etc etc! Multiple murders should be death penalty, reduce costs to state. Are they really sorry, no if they committed 2 or more murders.
He had molested the girl who survived when she was 13 but her family chose to believe him
Some down right sick puppies out there. Well done for sentence handed down.
Should be out to death. Simple.
What a beautiful young woman. What an utterly sick, monster. A life sentence seems generous
@Dave O Keeffe: yeah Dave sexist pig monster
@Sandra O’Fucáif: on a different note Sandra are u still claiming that there are thousands of Egyptian Copts living here like illegally
@johnp: I think that Sandra need a new avatar.
@Sandra O’Fucáif: oh move along
The Chinese have the right idea. Why keep this bit of trash alive when one in the back of the head would release millions of Pounds to improve the Health Service !
Really really evil, this guy should just be shot.
What a beaitiful woman and waste of a lfe.. sentencing is just and we need to review our sentences here which is a joke tbh.
That fella was no addition to any country !
40 years is a joke. Should be tortured for 40 years
Just kill the sick f##ker
@john: and do it nice and slowly.
Ain’t Multiculturalism great.
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