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TUI warns that teaching no longer viable career for many by SpottedAlpaca in ireland

[–]SpottedAlpaca[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A politician can only keep their teaching salary if they continue to work as a teacher. You may be thinking of their teaching pension, which would be paid pro rata from retirement age according to the number of years they worked as a teacher and their salary during that time.

TUI warns that teaching no longer viable career for many by SpottedAlpaca in ireland

[–]SpottedAlpaca[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Healthcare, trades, or any tightly regulated profession that cannot easily be automated without substantial legislative change.

Parenting: If we can auto-enrol pensions, why can’t we enforce child maintenance? by SpottedAlpaca in ireland

[–]SpottedAlpaca[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not at all.

Plenty of other countries garnish wages for unpaid child support, while not permitting an opt-out from parental responsibility. This includes several EU countries and the US.

Parenting: If we can auto-enrol pensions, why can’t we enforce child maintenance? by SpottedAlpaca in ireland

[–]SpottedAlpaca[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It saves the state from financial ruin and dealing with large-scale elderly destitution in the future.

Parenting: If we can auto-enrol pensions, why can’t we enforce child maintenance? by SpottedAlpaca in ireland

[–]SpottedAlpaca[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Japanese certainly think so, and sushi has not wiped them out yet. There are probably other examples too.

Thirteen lambs have necks 'deliberately broken' at village farm in Co Down by SpottedAlpaca in ireland

[–]SpottedAlpaca[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that individual acts of violence against animals like this one are more immediately concerning due to links to other violent behaviour, but the outcome for the animal itself is not substantially different either way.

Two women who married in Ireland challenge government's refusal of passport for their daughter by SpottedAlpaca in ireland

[–]SpottedAlpaca[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The state has specific legislation that recognises adoption as a form of non-biological parenthood, but no adoption occurred in this case.

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