OscailtThe Proposed 2nd Free Pre-School Year and cuts to Child Benefit. What's Up?Are parents going to come out better or worse?
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2013-05-23T20:26:23+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=103638http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifRTE investigations unit uncover verbal abuse in crechehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103638#comment2958472013-05-23T20:26:23+00:00TIt seems like the points about quality of care and the most likely place for thi...It seems like the points about quality of care and the most likely place for this to happen would be in the larger industrial / corporate entities has been proved with the story that broke today where a RTE Investigations Unit which seems to be part of Prime Time had someone in two creches and the researcher witnessed and videoed staff shouting at children in their care and mishandling them.<br />
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Apparently this will be shown on Prime Time on RTE on Monday (27th) night.RTE Primetime program shows system of creches is brokenhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103638#comment2959222013-05-28T22:35:32+00:00TThe Primetime program on creches clearly shows that the system is broken and the...The Primetime program on creches clearly shows that the system is broken and the whole concept is flawed.<br />
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It showed workers who were clearly stressed out working day in and day out being verbally abusive and rough handling of kids and leaving them in chairs for hours on end.<br />
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Yet the regulators and those associated with the industry seem to think more money and training is the solution. Yet it should be clear the best people to look after the kids is their own parents and if they want to put more money in it, then they should give much longer parental leave perhaps extending it up to 3 years.children are not status symbols, creches should not be "for profit"http://www.indymedia.ie/article/103638#comment2959272013-05-29T11:38:55+00:00fredself centred "I want to have it all" people need to stop having "status symbol" ...self centred "I want to have it all" people need to stop having "status symbol" children that they couldn't give a shit about and just farm out to the tv, playstation or some underpaid strangers to look after at the first opportunity.<br />
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Why is everybody acting so surprised that a "for profit" company will cut costs to the bone to maximise profits by paying minimum wages, taking people who are desperate and will accept the lowest renumeration, and cramming the kids into larger unmanageable groups.<br />
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Of course these stressed people will just get through the day any way they can.<br />
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And of course they will be scapegoated while the managers cream off the profits.<br />
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We need people to consider more carefully before having children. You need a licence to drive a car. Perhaps we should require one before being allowed to be a parent!!<br />
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And we need a system of state creching along the lines of that in Finland which, ironically, costs less than sub standard "for profit" creching in Ireland.<br />
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We'll never learn the lesson that privatisation does not provide better services.enable parents to look after their own children..http://www.indymedia.ie/article/103638#comment2959282013-05-29T12:45:35+00:00daveThe government should enable parents to look after their own children,cutting ch...The government should enable parents to look after their own children,cutting child benefit does not achieve this. I think more needs to be done here.<br />
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Throwing money at these creches,that seem to be a money making machine,is not the answer,our tax payers money should not go to supporting the management or mismanagement of these creches.<br />
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There was one owner of a few creches who was on the board of about 60 companies.<br />
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It seems to me the running of a creche is a profit making excercise,look at the food the children were eating,it was not nutrious and had no vegtables in it.<br />
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But should we really be that suprised?Care doesn't mean care,it is a company just like any other and we should see it as such.<br />
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Ive worked from creches to nursing homes,and i have seen the food they have in the kitchen/canteen,it is just horrible stuff all i cans or jars straight from the cash and carry the cheapest of food you can buy.<br />
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I would not be suprised if some of these parents insist on using the same creches for their children after watching the primetime report on these creches.<br />
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I know a couple who live near me and they say its hard to get a place in a creche a lot of them are full up.<br />
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Parents working have no other place to leave them but in profit making creches..Gone are the days of the extended family where an aunt or a granny could look after these kids and get quality care with an engaging carer who actually cares.<br />
Well said Fred!http://www.indymedia.ie/article/103638#comment2959292013-05-29T13:16:10+00:00Rational Ecologist.Fred is absolutely spot on when he says that people need to think more carefully...Fred is absolutely spot on when he says that people need to think more carefully before they have children. There are 7bn humans on this planet, so it's about time to grasp the nettle on population. Creches support a system and a way of life that is anti Nature, anti human and definitely anti kids.<br />
This is a system that is utter madness, where we all become cogs to satisfy the megamachine and Feminism is co-opted by Capitalism to confuse women( and men) with the message of participating in the insanity of Capitalism as a right.<br />
If you want to have kids, rear them and love them. <br />
you might not like this one as much though RE. I was holding back somewhat!! ;-)http://www.indymedia.ie/article/103638#comment2959322013-05-29T16:37:27+00:00fredthanks RE
Normally when I suggest a parent licence or population tax disincentiv...thanks RE<br />
Normally when I suggest a parent licence or population tax disincentives on child number 3 onwards etc, I get pilloried <br />
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Of course nobody cares to talk about the resource use of each new white western child.<br />
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Stupid irrational short term thinking. And it can only end up one way. Easter island. The supersized version. Not pretty.<br />
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Like RE said, there are 7billion humans on a planet which it has been calculated can only support 2 billion at most, when the oil runs out. And even that only if they adhere to a strict vegan diet!!!<br />
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it'll be 10 billion by 2050<br />
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We are totally irrational on the whole subject. Everyone feels they have a right to reproduce themselves. That the world needs more of them. Often it's just ego and vanity and nothing more. We think we are so intelligent, but as a species as a whole, we act no smarter than a destructive mindless virus which multiplies out of control until it kills its host<br />
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At the very least, we should have annual limits to new births and a lottery system to see who is allowed to reproduce. <br />
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Unless you are one of the 1%, It's not as if we have anything to offer these kids anyway. Most end up as indentured serfs (if they are lucky). Or if they don't manage that, then the state doesn't want to help feed, clothe, house or give medical aid to anyone and only does so very begrudgingly. Despite all the pro life bullshite we hear about the sanctity of life, the fact is, once life gets here, nobody gives a shit about it. <br />
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If they did then 100+ kids would not have gone missing / died on the HSE's watch or more of those priest paedophiles would be breaking rocks in the sun on a chain gang. And I didn't hear any shrieks for them to be excommunicated. did you?<br />
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As one english Parliamentarian once said:<br />
"over the years I have gotten many letters about homosexuality and abortion from pro life people but never once did I get a letter about child poverty"<br />
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TBH, I feel most sorry for all the other innocent species we will wipe out in the path to our own destruction. Someone should. Humans mostly don't give a shit about anything except themselves. <br />
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There were no doubt some truly wonderful individuals, but for the most part we are a failed and rather stupid experiment. We will be destroyed by our own stupidity, arrogance, greed, selfishness and hubris. A blip on the geological scale compared with even the dinosaurs. <br />
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I understand the sentiments Fred.http://www.indymedia.ie/article/103638#comment2959362013-05-30T11:33:59+00:00Rational Ecologist.I'm afraid the primacy of the human has led to all of this. James Lovelock recko...I'm afraid the primacy of the human has led to all of this. James Lovelock reckons that there'll only be a handful of us in 100 years; I'm sure the Bison, Badger, Beech and Conifer will be glad to see the back of us.<br />
Read Derrick Jensen, a straight shooter, who is clear on his thinking.<br />
re:fredhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/103638#comment2959402013-05-30T14:15:09+00:00dave''Of course nobody cares to talk about the resource use of each new white wester...''Of course nobody cares to talk about the resource use of each new white western child.''<br />
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why are you intent on picking on white western children?you have singled them out.<br />
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you know there are chinese,african,and arab children living in western countries,and asian countries,that use our modern resources,such as cars,buses etc..<br />
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what is it you have against white children,fred?