Social and Family Affairs Minister Mary Hanafin was taking questions in the Dáil on Tuesday. The answers to the questions are included in the transcript over on Kildarestreet.com.
But look halfway down the page – the bit after ‘Notes for Minister’ – all her notes to possible supplemental questions with additional information not intended for publication are also included. Oops. We might keep an eye in case this is a regular occurence – you never know Willie O’Dea’s jokes about damsels in distress might be included in the next cock up.
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That some poor bastards are waiting for 19 weeks for welfare is just beyond a joke – start writing some cheques for them and play catch up when their claims are processed FFS!
I see that Blanch is suffering the highest increase for a city district (comparable to Limerick or Cork), and that is alarming. There is a “new” scheme from this week that where, instead of spending half the morning queueing for your monthly sign-on that you now appear within a half hour ‘window’… apparently it will cut waiting times. It might also make the queue seem invisible, where as it was out the dole office door and down the block the last time i was there. The highlight of my “wait” was some guy behind me who was openly ringing an abortion clinic in the UK on his mobile phone to arrange an appointment for his pregnant partner, you hear the oddest things in queues! I did wonder how Hanafin might have felt about that one.