Manifestly inadequate… true. Manifestly obvious too. January 26, 2018
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The Council of Europe has heavily criticised Ireland’s social services, claiming the level of assistance for single people without resources is “manifestly inadequate”.
A monitoring report on health, social security and social protection services said Ireland is failing to live up to some 13 legal obligations to citizens under the European Social Charter.
Failings cited include inadequate co-ordination of the fight against poverty and social exclusion, and the failure to guarantee access to health and social services.
And:
On welfare benefits, it finds the minimum amount of sickness, work injury and occupational diseases benefits are inadequate.
It notes unemployment assistance was €100 per week for persons aged 18 to 24 and €144 per week for persons aged 25 and above.
“The committee notes that unemployment assistance for persons aged 25 years or below is manifestly inadequate,” the report says.
And on it goes… health and safety in the workplace, mental health services, prescription charges, etc.
No room for complacency there.
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anyone find the docuemtns that this is referring to very hard to find them on EU websites.
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You’re telling me…
Anyone?
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The trouble you two have got is you’re getting confused between the Council of Europe, European Council and Council of the European Union; The Council of Europe is it’s own thing.
The information is available at the following link, it’s article 12.1 onwards that is important.
http://hudoc.esc.coe.int/eng#%22ESCCycle%22:%5B%22year2017%22,%222017%22,%22XXI-2%22%5D,%22ESCDcLanguage%22:%5B%22ENG%22%5D,%22ESCStateParty%22:%5B%22IRL%22%5D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Europe
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Hmmm…
Clicking back on the link it’s resetting back to default. Use the filters on the side to look for Ireland article 12 and last 6 months.
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I meant European institutions website documents in general, I was going to this site I still couldn’t find them, https://www.coe.int/en/web/turin-european-social-charter/-/several-states-parties-to-the-european-social-charter-marked-by-a-high-levels-of-poverty-in-2017 Im going to the bove link follwoing instructions and the apges are blank and clicking the pdf link says I don’t have premission
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Have you tried a clean browser with adblocking etcetera turned off, it works for me under those circumstances. I’d agree with GW, not very user friendly.
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I got some text following that I just don’t know what Im looking at compared to the article. Much more text in French.
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Okay, here’s an easier way, from the link provided by you click on the “Press Release” link, then at the bottom of the following page click on the “National Reports” link, then scroll down to Ireland, and click on ” Comments from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission” and that will take you to a 36 page PDF (I’ve linked it below) with the “manifestly inadequate” quote on page 17 of the PDF, marked 14 on the page itself.
Torturous…
https://rm.coe.int/168070b755
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Gold star to you Liberius. Thanks.
You clearly have an eye for a needle in a haystack. Or just better search skills 🙂
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Nothing but a tendency towards doggedness, I don’t like to be beaten by obtusity.
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Re Liberius’s comment that ends with the word ‘Torturous…’ and the link to https://rm.coe.int/168070b755
… that is not actually the findings. That document is what the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission said to the CoE last year in its submission. (You can see the government’s report that the IHREC was responding to here: https://rm.coe.int/16806ec8e1 )
The actual findings seem to be unavailable today (Sat 27th Jan).
The Country Chapter (available on the “Related” tab in the online database) has a link that is broken and the content of the database version (at http://hudoc.esc.coe.int/eng ) is missing 😦
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Man that web site is desperate. To quote the man:
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Which man is that GW?
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Arthur Dent, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (or Douglas Adams who wrote it!).
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Ah yes, thanks.
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Helpfully, the press release that Liberius mentions gives a contact:
Giuseppe Zaffuto
giuseppe.zaffuto@coe.int
+33 3 90 21 56 04
His role is given as press officer, but I’d say he might have an interest in passing on, eh, critical feedback to his IT colleagues!
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[Update to my earlier comments above]
The database is back online.
You can get the full conclusions for 2017 for Ireland here (PDF, 49 pages): hudoc.esc.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf?library=ESC&id=CR_2017_IRL_ENG&filename=CR_2017_IRL_ENG.pdf
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