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Fergal Quinn Urges Use Of Anti-Terrorist Software To Monitor Welfare Claimants

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Friday April 27, 2012 12:02author by pat c

That money grubbing clown Senator Fergal Quinn now wants to use anti terrorist methods to monitor welfare claimants.The software would look for words like holiday or new car. This is the same crook who set up a separate company to get around hello money legislation. Full text at link.

Senator Feargall Quinn moments ago in the Seanad has suggested that the Government consider monitoring the use of the internet by social welfare recipients to detect instances of fraud. Keywords such as "holiday" and "new car" could indicate instances of fraud, according to Senator Quinn.

Quinn, speaking during the Second Stage of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012 in the Seanad, suggested the Government consider a system used in the Netherlands which uses counter-terrorism software to detect keywords used by recipients of social welfare

Related Link: http://www.politics.ie/news/senator-quinn-suggests-counter-terrorist-software-should-used-monitor-social-welfare-recipients-use-social-media-290.html

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