Can 👏 Our 👏 Side 👏 Please👏 Stop 👏 Fucking 👏 Repeating 👏 This 👏 Black Pilled 👏 Learned👏 Helplessness 👏 Bullshit 👏 It's at most 30 NGOs who have any real lobbying power / influence in public policy on immigration and hatespeech etc

Here is a not-for-profit organization that's well worth investigating: The Community Ireland Foundation. It engages in social impact investing + contracting activities funded by anonymous philanthropic donations. Its donations quadrupled from 7 to 28 million euros during covid and it''s hovered around that since. In 2022 50% of the Immigration Council of Ireland's funding came from this organisation.

Social Outcomes Contracting, also known as Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) or Pay-for-Success contracts, is a relatively new financial mechanism that aims to address social and environmental challenges by leveraging private capital to fund and deliver social programs or services. The concept typically involves the following key components:

Government Initiator: A government entity, often at the local or national level, identifies a social issue or problem that requires intervention, such as reducing homelessness, improving educational outcomes, or reducing recidivism in the criminal justice system.

Service Providers: Nonprofit organizations or social service providers are selected to deliver the social program or service aimed at addressing the identified problem.

Private Investors: Private investors, which can include individuals, philanthropic organizations, or impact investors, provide upfront capital to fund the program's implementation.

Performance Metrics: Specific and measurable outcomes are defined, and the success of the program is evaluated based on predetermined performance metrics. These metrics often include improvements in social indicators, such as reduced hospital admissions, increased employment rates, or improved educational attainment.

Payment Structure: If the program achieves the agreed-upon outcomes within a specified timeframe, the government repays the investors their initial capital plus a return on investment (ROI) or interest. The ROI is typically contingent on the level of success achieved. If the program falls short of its goals, investors may receive a reduced return or no return at all.

What annoys me about this "scoop" from the Daily Mail is that the list has been available to the public for five months now. Perhaps it's the fact that it's in print and accessible to the average person that makes it significant. If they were savvy enough to conduct real journalism and reverse-search the addresses and structures of these companies, they would discover that (in one example) six of these companies are under the same parent company. Moreover, in other cases lots of these other companies share the same addresses and directors. The report is five months late and only scratches the surface in its "analysis."

TLDR: Two separate conglomerates are each pulling in over 90 million a year from this. One has ties to Blackrock and Vanguard, and another is linked to one of our great cultural institutions.

Feeling overwhelmed by the 33,000 NGOs and the 6 billion figure, and unsure how to take action in your area? Focus on your Local Development Companies, especially their SICAP activities . This is where the Department of Children hands over control to the local gravy train gombeens after "planting".. Although they may seem like government entities, they are non-profits delivering social services using EU and governmental funds – think of Meals on Wheels, Rural Grants & Employment Support Services etcs . Start investigating how many SICAP staff members your Local Development Company has. The number might surprise you and will give you a good indication of the size of the problem in your area . Even better, delve deep into LDC finances because they are full of fuckery. If they're not public, start demanding transparency. Hint hint Sligo. https://www.pobal.ie/programmes/social-inclusion-and-community-activation-programme-sicap-2018-2022/

Why haven't the Electoral Commission made a public statement or even a tweet on the fact that lots of people have been removed from the register due to "technical problems"? We really need to have a close eye on them. https://www.electoralcommission.ie/who-we-are/members-of-the-commission/

I'd like to vote as an anonymous person with no address please....

We need autistic software engineers sitting on the board of the Electoral Commission, not political hacks, barristers and NGO people.

I have a really really bad feeling about this.Their body language says it all. It would be perfectly fine to admit there have been technical issues that have been resolved .. but they gave no real answers. Look how that woman is nervously flailing around the place nodding in agreement with whatever bullshit the people to the left or the right are spouting. "Sure I'm on the register as Tim but if I had typed in Timothy I wouldn't show up". It's a just a list of names in a database. That's all it is. It could not be simpler. Even your local camogie club manages a similar system for its under-14 team members. Let's not forget, we are the European headquarters for numerous major tech companies. The notion of a "backlog" spanning several days in some counties, as suggested by some on Twitter, for being added to a glorified Excel spreadsheet, especially in the heart of Europe's Silicon Valley, seems ... Weird. https://youtu.be/7Z6Dx8_mYTU

- Who performed the modernization of the electoral register and when was the work completed?
- Was this task undertaken by engineers within the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) or outsourced to a third-party software company?
- If outsourced, can details of the e-tender issued by the LGMA for this work be provided?
- What tests were conducted on the system before its deployment?
- What standards did the commission recommend and set for the update and maintaince of this new modernised electoral system? - it's clearly outlined as one of the commission's new responsibilities
- If the LGMA developed and now manages the new system on behalf of the Local Authorities, and the commission was responsible for recommendations on its update and maintenance, why is the commission directing voters with issues, such as being removed from the register to the Local Authorities?

A few more questions to consider..

- What was the design of the old electoral system?
- What specific changes or upgrades have been made in the new system? Where are they clearly documented?
- Was the update to the electoral system a migration or upgrade from the old system, or was it a complete redesign?
- What technical recommendations were given by the commission regarding the design and testing of the new system?
- Is the design of the electoral system uniform across all counties?
- Does the local government management agency centrally store electoral system information, or is data stored independently in each county? Additionally, who has access to this data in each county?
- Is there any publicly available documentation on the design and testing of this electoral system?
- Who is responsible for carrying out upgrades of the system: the local authorities or a central authority in Dublin? Who has access to manage these upgrades?
- What is the technical reason that person might have been purged from the register?
- Is there an audit trail for purging of people from the register?

The Department of Children have released their purchase orders over 20k for Q3 of 2023. I'll get this into CSV/Excel for you tomorrow. This contains IPAS and Ukrainian contract payments.