Asked if the government would consider whether some “international obligations” were actually outdated and bad for Ireland, Fine Gael Minister Heather Humphreys said: “Ireland is a very proud & active member of the EU. We make decisions collectively.”
Question by Ben Scallan.
Loading ...
Because the EU has made some terrible decisions we must blindly follow suit?
This is both stupid and irresponsible.
Yes Sinn Fein are both of those things
So we are not a sovereign state, we are part of a Collective- good to know.
In other words, im not going to tell you what I think and give a ridiculous answer. Interesting them talking about international obligations but not one of them will address who signed us up to those international obligations because we sure as shit did not or give them permission to do it either. Another thing she said was immigration debates are to be held an eu level, in other words, she and her colleagues dont care about our sovereignty and national borders and the eu will decide. We need to leave the eu. I wonder what excuse they would give then if we were not in the eu.
We voted to join the Common Market on the assurance that our small country, protected by the veto, could never be swallowed up by the big boys. We lost the veto and many other safeguards to sovereignty by successive governments pushing us into voting for a series of lengthy, incomprehensible treaties – and foolishly agreeing to give them precedence over our constitution!
Not only are we paying the price for that now, but our government are perfectly willing to hand over whatever still remains of our independence and sovereignty.
Correct, these politicians were destroying our country in the back ground and lying through omission for their pay masters and now they actually think that their crap excuses for crap they signed us up for without telling us is going to save them. You know they are being paid to do this in the back ground because they are doubling down on this stuff. In the past if there was this much hate for them which I dont believe there ever was, they would have uturned by now. Who ever is pulling their strings directly in the back ground must have some dirt on them which would be exposed if they did u turn. The one thing I would like to see is all the back ground dealings once they get dumped out being exposed to the public. There is so much in databases and paper from the last 100 years we dont even know that would be treasonous.
Nail on the head here, 100% compromised
Thanks Des.
you never saw the 70s or 80s when average family outside the pale struggled to put food on the table , emigration was at its peak and now it’s big houses all over the place and 3to 5 jeeps SUVs sports cars parked outside 👍
I saw the 70s and 80s. There weren’t as many homeless. There wasn’t a need for soup kitchens like now. There wasn’t as much crime. We weren’t coerced into taking drugs we didn’t want. I don’t know what Ireland you are living in when you say 3 to 5 jeeps outside houses.
If young Irish people could even manage to buy houses they would be over the moon. Jeeps or SUVs would be the icing on the cake but they cannot even afford the cake.
I was 34 when I bought. I was working in three jobs to pay for it. I overstated my earnings to the bank in order to get the amount needed and I had a Credit Union loan that the mortgage section didn’t know about. A lot of my friends didn’t buy until their thirties and some didn’t buy at all.
Do you by any chance have the breakdown of age demographic home ownership figures?
Unfortunately not. I do know however that seventeen of my nieces and nephews have not a snowballs chance in hell of owning their own homes here and they range in age between 18 and 34.
My nieces and nephews are young, not 34 yet. Two of my nieces have bought and they are in their twenties.
I think it is a disgrace that more young people can’t buy earlier, now or in my day.
It is definitely much worse now but I think they make out the difference is even more extreme than it is . I don’t know where I saw the figures on it. I’d love to find them again. But they gave the figure for percentage home ownership for the under forties as opposed to the over forties. Naturally in the under forties group the 1 to 20 yr olds wouldn’t have got on the ladder yet. So that’s half of the group eliminated giving it a twenty year span compared to a 50 yr span for the over 40’s. This would very much have skewed the percentages.
In my day most of my friends hadn’t been able to save a deposit until their thirties.
There is a tendency by the media and government to pit one demographic against another and so too with the old and young.
A lot of people in my age group double jobbed to get their houses. I don’t think it was right then or now. But I do know my friends’ sons and daughters don’t double job. As I said it is not right but that is how in my day one got on the ladder unless we had rich parents.
Fast forward and a lot of the older people who scrimped and scraped, double jobbed and paid huge interest rates far higher than today, are now helping the younger people with their mortgages. Also the pressure is coming for them to vacate their houses; the homes they gave up so much for. They are being told they should ‘right size’ i.e. move into smaller homes. The moral implication in the word ‘right’ is not lost on us.
The government are looking to change the constitution to delimit the right to property so that in the case of the common good, property can be taken.
The 80 and 90 year olds will be dead soon and then their property will be available why pressurise them to leave their home of 50 or more years that they paid dearly for.
The problem is not between the selfish elderly who own their own homes (or as in my case to be in the last decade of their mortgage) and the young who just want to work hard in one job and get a mortgage early enough to start a family. The problem is government policy.
We have given over huge swathes of our housing to house people who just walked in the door. Some are genuinely in a tragic situation but a lot are economic migrants. They should be vetted and processed quickly and their deportation overseen. Then we would have much more houses for our young.
We can’t house our own. We never could. We came close in the 1970s and 1980s. Now we have unlimited money to house freeloading international bums but nothing for our own. This situation will not stand
Totally agree.
…..and they sold our souls
I saw the 70s and 80s and you are talking bovine excrement. Now go away and swear allegiance to your Royal Sovereign king Charles on whose behalf Sinn Fein are the local administrators of his possessions in Ireland. Traitors
The nova riche.
She didn’t engage with your question one bit. And her false smile, rolling of eyes and leaning forward as much as to say, ‘I have to try and understand this stupid question’, is infuriating. In actual fact I don’t believe she did understand the question.
The answer she gave could have been given to a variety of questions it is that generic. It is a learned off response. I wonder what would she say if you asked her why did she not engage with your question.
Well done Ben. You have the patience of Job.
A thick bitch
Was does she think a panicked word salad like that conveys to the public?
What does it indicate as the government’s priorities.
The electorate?
Or the wishes of the EU ?
Not fit to run a sweet shop… utterly incompetent.
all smiles from her till Ben asked the question and mentioned illegal migration LMAO
Forget international obligations. We have a national obligation to not re elect this government if we want to save our own country.
Wrt this situation.
There’s compassion and craven gullibility.
There’s never been much compassion.
Just tax funded virtue signalling.
Its not frustration for her atol atol, its a get out of jail card everytime for every useless politican we have in this country.It would actually be funny if Sein Fein were in power and to hear Mary Lou spew the very same lines.
Love Bens work though.He has a great way of tripping them over themselves everytime and he is great at exposing the sheer incompetence of what should be a seasoned politican. It is comedy gold at this stage.
Please do a ‘end of year’ video for xmas of all the ridiculous answers from all interviews of the gript team.We all need a bit of joy in our lives and when better than xmas time.
Dont leave out Simon Harris “19 covids before” remark. Classic.
Up there with “commercial confidentiality ” in the get out of jail lazy replies.
Was ir McGrath trotted out similar for carbon takes recently?
The levels of incompetency are utterly astounding. Whoever voted for the likes of this really need to hang their heads in shame.
“Yeah, well, lookat…”
5BILLION POOR WORLDWIDE AND THE ONES THAT HAVE MONEY AND THE MEANS LEAVE AND WE PUT THEM IN HOTELS. THIS IS NOT HAVING ANY IMPACT ON THEIR HOMELAND. EVERY EURO SPENT HERE WILL HELP 10TIMES MORE IN THEIR HOMELAND. SYSTEM STINKS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW IS DISINGENUOUS