‘Not feasible’: Taoiseach Micheál Martin explains why Ireland doesn’t check to verify whether people served deportation orders have left the State: “We don’t have exit checks between Northern Ireland and the Republic, nor is it feasible to do so.”
Gardaí from the Organised Prostitution Investigation Unit encourage those who are being sex trafficked in Ireland to come forward after brothel keeper jailed
Jason and Maria disagree about Ryanair’s crackdown on the “scourge” of oversized luggage in the wake of the news that the airline’s staff are receiving bonuses for catching out passengers with overly-hefty bags.
Innovation Minister James Lawless says he “absolutely couldn’t agree more” with the idea that Ireland needs to cut regulation, saying that “one of the cons [of Ireland’s system] is we’ve become a very highly regulated environment” and that means “we take too long to do things.”
Tánaiste Simon Harris says he would like to see planning exemptions for IPAS centres eventually “phased out”, but that it is not “possible” to do so now.
“If we’re to manage the immigration system, we need to have knowledge of who’s here”: Ministers Sean Canney and Noel Grealish say that the Government should have checks at the border to ensure that individuals who are given deportation orders do, in fact, leave the State.
Ben and Jason discuss a report from Extra.ie this week, which revealed that the National Treasury Management Agency was scammed out of €5 million through a sophisticated phishing scam.
“We have an enormous amount of regulation in this country”
Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme
On this week’s episode of The Long Game podcast, Ben and Jason discuss the Irish Government’s mixed signals on whether or not they will revisit the hate speech bill.
Housing Minister on why delivering housing is so hard: “Over the last number of years we’ve made a lot of decisions that I think were very good in isolation with really good intentions, but when you add them up, what we’ve actually done is tied ourselves in regulatory knots.”
A UN Committee has asked Ireland to re-run the Family and Care referendum, saying they were disappointed with last year’s result. Tánaiste Simon Harris’ response: “We absolutely will not be doing that.”