“Being the Finance Minister allows him to plausibly claim credit for all Government successes, since he funded them, while distancing himself from failures, because all he did was fund them.”
‘Ignorance of the law is no defence’
“I don’t think it was the defining reason.”
‘Lack of accountability’
If the Leo Varadkar of 2004 could look at the Leo Varadkar of 2024, I think it perfectly fair – even if perhaps slightly harsh – to ask whether he would even recognise himself.
Pills by post
“never a ‘right time’ to resign”
No version of housing supply can meet demand
Playing “policeman”
Test case
If we assume that the Covid enquiry takes a similar length of time to that of the “Grace” enquiry, then we are looking at a report date of 2031, more than a decade after the events that it purports to report on.
Any other workplace that was suddenly losing a third of its workforce, many of them in the prime of their careers, would be considered to be in trouble. Serious questions would be asked of the senior management.