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What a week it’s been.

What a week it’s been.

Labour Party candidate for Kilkenny City, Sean Butler, has accused the government of engaging in the old tactic of divide and rule as a means of distracting people's attention from the huge increase in the unemployment levels within Kilkenny.

Sinn Féin County Councillor Gerry Murray has condemned the introduction of the pension levy which he claims puts the burden of Ireland’s public finances on low and medium income public workers and lets the oil and gas companies off the hook once again. He described the Government’s spin doctors as shameful in their “pathetic attempt to portray and blame public sector workers as being exclusively responsible for the current economic downturn”. Cllr Murray challenged Fianna Fáil on the fairness of the public service pension levy noting that the “sliding scale in the levy discriminates against the lower paid while the oil and gas multi-nationals go untouched.”

On March 1 the pension levy was imposed on all workers in the Civil Service, Local Authorities, HSE, VEC’s, non commercial semi state bodies, An Garda Siochána and the Defence Forces. Cllr Noel Frawley states that this is not a pension levy but rather a tax on workers wages to pay for our now deeply mortgaged country.

Sinn Féin local election candidate for the Ballyragget electoral area, Ray Quinlan has said the upcoming budget must rectify and reverse the recent Fianna Fáil and Green Party attack on children with special educational needs.

Westport deputy Michael Ring spoke in the Dáil last week, seeking clarification about the number of people engaged in commercial activity, including the operation of a farm, who had applied for pension entitlements.

Q. I am a self employed individual and have my own business providing repair and maintenance services to individuals and companies. In recent months I have lost several large contracts and the business is no longer viable. I have two employees who have worked with me for the last 15 years. I have been told that my employees will be entitled to jobseekers’ benefit if the business folds but as the owner I have no entitlements. Is this correct?

Hession Life & Pensions Ltd, Oranmore is holding an information evening for people who have recently been made redundant. The theme of the evening will be focused on advice about how to manage your pension fund, options for your redundancy money and how to deal with continuing life cover following job loss. Qualified experts will be available to advise on these topics.

As Budget 2010 looms and fears intensify about how financially worse off the Irish citizen will be following its implementation, one area which needs to be policed more vigourously is benefit fraud. The State is losing hundreds of millions of euro each year through social welfare fraud.