The Direct Provision Challenge.
Living on €19.10 for a week – the amount asylum seekers in direct provision get.
From Monday, December 5 to Sunday, December 11.
United Against Racism writes:
Rules:
– You have only €19.10 to spend for the week.
– Your meals are paid for separately, not included in this allowance.
– For those who travel to work or school, these travel expenses are not part of this allowance.
– All your other expenses are to be paid from this allowance.
So, how do you live on €19.10 per week?
Are you willing to take the Direct Provision Challenge?
Take part and send us a short video or text report to info@united-against-racism.net
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You have a bed, a roof, heating, meals, water, shampoo, detergent etc all paid for.
and on top of all that you get €19.10 tax free.
Why would an asylum seeker need a car?
To get to the other side?
@UAR, I have a little challenge for you: setting aside the brief mention on your About Us page, please point to one public protest you’ve organised that specifically highlights the growing scourge of anti-Semitism in Europe.
news to me, thought there were far larger problems in europe .. can u link me examples of anti-semitish in europe please?
Are you serious?
France – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AltyhmrIFgo
Sweden – http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/96146/swedens-damn-jew-problem
@RobG – more than a whiff. See also ‘vulture’, ‘bloodsucking vampire squid’ etc.
police aren’t guarding synagogues and Jewish schools all over France for nothing.
oh yea. but that’s terrorist attacks and threats.. not a growing anti-semitism. that makes it sound like the people on the street are just starting to hate jews out of nowhere. the anti-semitism in europe is coming from the middle-east, who have been in religious war with jews forever.
Look at the video for France that I linked to – not everyone hassling the fellow are of Middle Eastern origin.
Or just look at any article on Broadsheet that mentions Alan Shatter – definite bang of blood libel off some of the comments.
Nope. Crack open a history book – hell, read Ivanhoe – or listen to this week’s Beyond Belief (Radio 4 podcast) to flesh out the historical background to European anti-Semitism from the Middle Ages to the advent of the Zionist movement in the late C19TH and the resulting Balfour Declaration.
What work would I need to travel to, considering those in Direct Provision can’t?
that’s exactly what I spend on lattes per week :-)
A roof over your head head, heating, water, ESB and meals supplied. How much is that worth, 350-500 a week? Or are we supposed to ignore that bit?
This is important, and often overlooked.
Do we have the same outrage for people who work and have €20 a week to live on after bills and food…. *cups ear*
Nope.
People in direct provision don’t have a means of escaping it, though. They get to wait sometimes up to 10 years. That’s the bit you’re overlooking.
Trust me, I’m not overlooking it. I think it is a disgrace that children are being raised in such camps.
think we’re all agreed that’s an issue
Why is anyone there 10 years? Has anyone waited 10 years for their initial review?
A Ryan air ticket can be bought for that amount of money. Problem solved.
where you off to?
You’re gone very miserable Clampers….no empathy for others at all anymore. What happened? The last bike getting robbed finally sqeezed the niceness out huh..
Do you even understand the meaning of empathy?
I feel like this wouldn’t be very hard to do for only a week if I just didn’t go to the pub at the weekend. That being said, I most certainly couldn’t do it for a month and not just because of alcohol withdrawals.
Why do they give them any money if they already have rent and meals provided?
Personal toiletries?
I dont know about you but I don’t spend €140 a week on toiletries or clothes or anywhere near that amount
Jackson, are you by any chance confusing the €19.10 as a daily amount? To avoid confusion, the €19.10 is per week (for adults).
“All your other expenses are to be paid from this allowance…………..”
With the obvious exception of all your accomodation, utilities, etc.
its a good challenge to see how long ya can go off the booze and fags.
Would you get a grip of yourselves. Food, heat and shelter plus a discretionary allowance, doing pretty well by any standard, particularly compared with some of the places where they may have come from. In fact, I’d say the nurse they had on here with a sob story about a week back would certainly take you up on your challenge.
You’d be happy with that for 10 years?
And who paid for the 4 or 5 failed appeals when refused refugee status.
Give me a break.
Do-gooders.
Interesting concept but if your meals and utilities are paid for what else would you need essentially. Of course for one week it may seem achievable, but for years it would be extremely tough. I could walk to work for a week, 45 minutes each way. The bus would cost 2.70 x 2 per day. 27 quid a week or If I took the bus to work and walked home it leave me with a fiver a week. That would get a box of tea/jar coffee and milk.
This experiment could bite UAR in the backside I’m afraid. Someone on the dole after rent, light/heat, phone, groceries, tv/internet wouldn’t have 19.10 left at the end of the week. There are probably couples paying a mortgage and after bills, food, travel only have 20 quid for themselves a week. I think the Direct Provision set up is horrible but I don’t think this experiment proves anything. If someone blows it on the first day on a latte and a danish what does it prove? I have colleagues who bring their lunch every day, have a 12 month bus pass and don’t spend a cent Monday to Friday.
Yeah the poor only need shelter and food.
They’re not allowed anything else. We only need to keep them alive, not allow them any kind of happiness.
we should be giving them money for one good night out a week anyway
You can give them some of your money, if you like : )
“For those who travel to work or school, these travel expenses are not part of this allowance.” So you can continue to get the bus to work and not include that in your €19.10;
Are people on Direct Provision allowed to work and get paid?
If so, then they have more than 19.10.
€19.10 a week and they don’t have to pay for accommodation, food, services or go to work? This so-called refugees don’t know they’re born! Why that sort of money could get them to the cinema once a week! With such wealth I can’t imagine why any of them would ever want to leave Direct Provision and earn a living for themselves.
It’s probably better than the living in Pakistan, Nigeria, or Afghanistan. I think the hardest thing about DP is the state of chassis. They’ve come all this way and they want to work.. That said if word got out that Ireland is a soft touch we’d need 100 mosneys by the end of 2017.
maybe we should get a few vulture fund operators to set up some lovely tax-free DP centres eh? kill the two birds with the one stone in terms of soft touches.
Are you some sort of ‘Boardsheet buzzword’ bot?
What the UAR don’t point out is that a family of 2 adults & 2 kids in direct provision get a weekly allowance of €70. It’s a small sum of money alright but we feed ourselves and 2 kids pretty easily on €100 per week – lots of stews, spag bols etc. Kids get the same in flasks for their school lunches. They’re kids – what do they care? After paying our own mortgage, utilities, etc. & this fairly modest food allowance, I’m not sure that I would have much more than €70 to go wild with. DP isn’t ideal, neither is their alternative.
@wearnicehats
The fact that you have a mortgage means that many Broadsheet and Rabble readers will have no sympathy. Why? The “all property is theft” mantra that the Irish left are so fond of.
That must have sounded clever in your head.
You have to buy tampons condoms etc out of that money. Also you are not allowed to cook for yourself.
if you’re not cooking for yourself, you won’t need condoms
(Sorry, that’s condiments, isn’t it?)
A couple could save a deposit for a house with that kinda money..
just cut out the 3 lattes a day..move to the country.. walk everywhere..and before you know it you’ll be using 50s to wipe ur ass.
who owns these centres and whose pocket are they in?