The ‘campaign’ was an attempt at smoke and mirrors spin to take our attention away from the real issues.

I would have preferred if Leo had run a campaign that highlighted
“Bank Fraud cheats us all” all 60 Billion of it.

You can be sure the screaming opinions of the minority entitlement socialism crowd will drown out the majority working tax payers disgust at this waste and theft of their tax payments and social service reduction.

“I don’t know that I won’t be running a similar campaign next year”

Don’t be getting any big ideas about yourself there Regina. You’ll do exactly as Leo’s multi-million Euro marketing gurus tell you to do. The Aardvark has your back pet.

The only thing Accurate here is them and their lavish wage and pensions which is fleecing us all..

We don’t see any publicised campaigned to cut out the larger €70+ million lost through complete continuous cock-ups made by the Department of Social protection do we?

No. Why?

Our glorious dear leader was the head of that department for the years preceding when the amounts lost, for each year, actually rose and continue to rise under the new lying replacement.

No. None of their far large financial costing cock- up are publicised or media mentioned.
That would be an admittance to the nation that that bigger costly mistakes have been made and they are failing to address the larger problem, successfully.

…So the Fine Gael state propaganda continues for our glorious leader and his elite.

Pot calling Kettle black here. I regard the USC as legalised theft of my income. As is the property tax. To shore up thieving lying bankers who destroyed our economy and are still deceiving and lying to our public accounts committee. How can this government take the moral high ground, when all they have done lumped the responsibility on us. You lead by example. We have no leadership, just a cosy consensus. Nama was a holding ground for developers, who were paid during the downturn. This is just a diversion. The reality is far more was stolen from our economy through the actions of an unaccountable elite. So carry on arguing here lads that is what they want, as they plan a nice holiday somewhere exclusive with your money.

So those fraudulently claiming welfare are cheats? If not, then what are they?

The way the dept calculates the fraud figure is a farce. No wonder they came up with 500 million if a person was caught in January and the dept inflates the figure by saying if they were not caught in jan, they’d have got away with it in Feb, mar, etc for the next six months, and that’s their official calculated fraud figure.

The €500 Million figure is absolute lying crap.

Even state department official have confirmed that they are outrageously inaccurate.
They have also confirmed that the amounts lost by the departments themselves through wrong payments is actually much larger each year for the last three years in particular – but you don’t see any of this mentioned in the North Korea style, Fine Gael propaganda.

Politicians like varadkar alway look down but never up.

You want the REAL truth? Not more Fine Gael lies?

Here it is: https://goo.gl/2Ln2sk

Of course she would have run the same campaign. Isn’t she FG. Doesn’t she espouse right wing politics. Revenue declare people and entities who have not paid taxes in full. The annual amounts here are a lot less than €500m. Release the information on the welfare cheats to show the amount is correct. Otherwise stop using amounts which cannot be other than treated as estimated

Expenses receipts of government ministers & their lackeys need to be vigorously checked.

Tax Avoiders Cheats Us All.

Welfare fraud is an issue, one that comes 10th after corporate tax fraud, corporate tax dodging and the inability to tax wealth.

The “welfare cheats” campaign was just another example of FG’s divide and conquer tactics. They have us all moaning, bitching and fighting over scraps whilst they make off like gangsters (which they are). Shame on anyone who falls for it.

Are the cheats being prosecuted ?

I am sick to death of all this bullshit. If you are claiming dole by fraud you are a cheat, straight up, and more than likely a bum too. There are plenty of jobs available now yet people still wanna just cheat the system and sit around and blame the government for everything. I know as much as the next person our government is shit, but I go to work every day and have a good life because I wrk hard for it. It’s really that simple. If you need change in your situation only you can do it ffs.

Sounds like an awfull lot of support for welfare fraud. I happy pay taxes but to support services not entitled cheats and that includes bankers

That 500 m in fraud would give us all a nice cut in USC(something we shouldnt be paying )

Reading through the comments here is it any wonder how we are the laughing stock of many other countries. Hundreds of millions has been wasted in ‘tribunals’ whose only goal was to keep the entitled classes from ever being criminally investigated for their antics. A Garda college where up to 50 bank accounts were used to siphon money to accounts in a retired Gardas name and a private boating club was funded by public monies which just happened to appear in a bank account connected to no-one in particular. A canteen in said establishment run by a private, former Garda, contractor where the staff were paid from public money. A child protection agency that conspired to label an honourable man as a paedophile so that they could shut him up from complaining about a recording database that accounted for more breath tests than there are drivers. We have a rogue banking system run by criminals, my opinion, who simply plucked figures from their collective arses and a compliant body politic who were in the pockets of the same bankers. The same banking system that has for years stolen money from its customers and driven many of them from their homes and sadly, in far too many cases, into their graves. I could go on but you know the drift.

Yes, we need to have a zero tolerance to fraud, but when the bar/restaurant of the very houses of legislature have to write off the food and alcohol bills of the people who inhabit those houses because they couldn’t be bothered to pay them, we are on a hiding to nothing.

It wasn’t any leftie or social welfare recipient or single mother that destroyed the economy of this country. It was the well connected who never had to suffer from the indignities caused by their actions. Divide and conquer has been mastered by the political parties, even those such as Labour claiming to be on the left. The Republic is dead, long live the Republic.

Quick deflect social welfare fraud isn’t an issue!!

I doubt this liberal feminist is going to take on the single mommy scam.

I don’t regret running campaign, my blood boils when the riff raff have support like this, louts don’t get up in the morning. I work hard to ensure the people of Ireland are looked after, while they lower the value of our property in their hoodies loitering!! Millennials are the worst

And who are the bad boys and girls then or do they not want to name them???

Imagine how much the Gardai, schools , hospitals, homeless would benefit from €500m ….