Though pragmatism might be what voters want, the opposition inside and outside of the Dáil is not incentivised to provide it.
Watch out Putin.
There is no escaping sums. You can protest them, as the French are doing, and you can put them off for a while, maybe. But like Thanos, sums are inevitable.
Friends of the Earth do not care about the efficient targeting of energy supports. In fact, they would probably rather there were no energy supports at all.
In years to come, when I think of what the pandemic unleashed, it will be the app that I remember