“I certainly wouldn’t be laying blame”: Housing Minister James Browne says population growth is a big driver of the housing crisis. When Ben Scallan puts it to him that most population growth is due to migration, he says migration is only a “small part” of the housing issue.
“That has nothing to do with the question I asked.” “Every time I meet you, you ask me the same questions.” Ben Scallan bumps heads with Media Minister Patrick O’Donovan on the Government regulating “mal-information” – information that’s true, but allegedly “harmful”.
Ben Scallan presses Children’s Minister Norma Foley on the abuse of children in State care and the dozens of minors disappearing on Tusla’s watch.
Social Protection Minister Dara Calleary defends Micheál Martin amid the Jim Gavin debacle, saying: “[Micheál Martin] has been in the trenches with me…he has my full confidence.”
A whole lot of cash.
Yearly increase.
Last chance.
“On a human level I feel awful for poor Jim and his family.”
For the foreseeable.
In 2020, Heather Humphreys’ Deptartment of Social Protection granted a Gender Recognition Cert to Barbie Kardashian declaring him legally female. This resulted in Kardashian being placed in a women’s prison. Ben Scallan asks Humphreys “Is Barbie Kardashian a woman?”
“There are complexities.”
“He or she is clearly mentally disturbed and may be dangerous.”