Time to Stop Funding Makey-up Hobby Horses
It is time that the Irish people asked why we are funding a ‘victims’ industry that is paid tens of millions of Euro each year at a time when children are being refused life-saving operations due to lack of funding. It is outrageous that the HSE has just granted another 270,000 this year to just one makey-up organisation that collects unverifiable figures from 15 other makey-up organisations who are funded to the tune of millions. The ‘victims’ industry has become a multi-million Euro business funding extravagant salaries and expense accounts that would put some of our top bankers to shame.
Time and time again journalists have been told that figures and statistics from these makey-up organisations cannot be supported by empirical evidence due to confidentiality, in other words tens of millions of Euro of tax payers’ money is being thrown at these groups each year on the basis of reports and evaluations they carry out themselves in order to keep themselves in makey-up jobs.
Funding for an organisation that collects data on sexual violence in Ireland has been secured until the end of the year. The Rape Crisis Network of Ireland said Minister for Health James Reilly had agreed to extend its funding until December 31st pending a review.
The network had been threatened with closure following a decision by the Health Service Executive to cut its core funding of about €270,000 a year. The network, which was set up in 1985, collates data from all 15 rape crisis centres across the State, develops policies for the centres and provides training for support staff.
There has never been one single case brought before the courts that showed that any ‘victim’ alleged or real had ever went in a ‘crisis’ situation to any of these makey-up groups. In all cases coming before the courts it is clear that the Gardai are the first point of contact for those persons alleging sexual violence. Ireland has a myriad of makey-up organisations allegedly dealing with sexual crime, when one adds up the numbers of alleged ‘victims’ contacting these organisations each year, that number out-weights the population of the entire Island by ten-fold. Statistics are being made-up and can’t be backed-up and nobody has the bottle to say enough is enough, we are paying professional staff in the HSE to provide support and counselling to victims of sexual crime, why are we making a mockery of our system by paying inflated salaries and expense accounts to groups and organisations that are simply out for their own gain.
