r/ROI • u/Realistic_Device2500 • 21h ago
🇮🇪 Oirish Taoiseach’s Taskforce for Dublin recommends banning feeding the poor in public because it's "undignified".
https://archive.ph/lF64E17
u/henscastle 19h ago
It's better to let people starve than to show up the Government's inaction on homelessness, says Government agency.
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u/Realistic_Device2500 21h ago
No attention is paid to nutritional needs or food safety
Quite the baseless allegation there
the crowds that gather at the food stalls are thought to attract drug dealing and other unsavoury activity
Thought by whom? Weasel words and snobbery.
Moving food services indoors also meant the appropriate equipment was used and that food health and safety regulations were adhered to
How? Do they think this food was cooked up a mountain on a log fire?
the point of them is to make sure the end user is getting the most appropriate supports they can get,
Like housing, mental health services, drug rehabilitation...
and make sure we don’t have large gatherings on some of our main streets, and all the consequences that come with that.
Making you look and feel bad.
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u/theblowestfish 19h ago
The food quality is poor. And honestly not the most sanitary. But in the words of Bertold Brecht, “build god, then we talk”.
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u/Realistic_Device2500 17h ago
You can see the pictures posted by the Muslim Sisters of Éire and everything looks great. Did you just make this up about it being poor and unsanitary?
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u/theblowestfish 14h ago
I know the soup runs better. And they’re fine. But can’t say they’re healthy. Point is they’re the best option for a lot of people. That’s the government’s fault. And the solution isn’t to get rid of the people helping.
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u/statsi_stasi 16h ago
If a person so very unfortunate as to have no home is strong enough to maintain their dignity in the face of that public adversity, I'd imagine they can manage public consumption of a cup of hot soup without shame.
But I'm sure they appreciate Dublin City Council's concern.
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u/AdminsLoveGenocide 14h ago
No, they weren't talking about their shame.
They were talking about the shame of real people who count, not the poor that Dublin City Council would rather fuck off out of sight and die.
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u/Irish_Narwhal 8h ago
I think we can agree it is undignified! Food banks for homeless people in a country with more money then they can spend depending on charity is absolutely ridiculous
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u/Cear-Crakka 20h ago
I suppose the alternative is a horribly run operation costing the state millions run by the likes of Aramark who will serve shite and treat people like shite too. Typical attitude from faceless council staff.