The Green Party has told Gript that the €72 million Basic Income for the Arts scheme is “cost neutral” to the State, because without it, many recipients would simply “have to go back into the social welfare system and seek jobseekers allowance”:
“It is about eliminating stigma of social welfare.”
Ben Scallan asks if this timing is not just an attempt to “bribe the electorate” and engage in “electioneering”.
Green Party Minister Catherine Martin says she and her party would ultimately like to see “Universal Basic Income” implemented in Ireland – a policy of providing regular, unconditional payments to all citizens regardless of employment status or income level. #Budget2025
“We are really increasing our investment in sport.”
In Blanchardstown.
My colleague Ben asked the Minister, yesterday, how she could look the Irish people in the face and defend this situation. The answer, of course, is that she cannot, and she will not try to.
Media Minister Catherine Martin is grilled on the government’s plan to bail out RTÉ, despite the broadcaster wasting the public funding it already had.
“I believe that activism is something that all children should be taught how to engage in” – Irish Green Party Minister Catherine Martin’s response when asked about a proposed climate activism module in Irish schools. Question by Ben Scallan.
Green Party pushing for EU-wide hate speech laws
“That is the rhetoric of Brexit.”
The obvious question is whether artists who travel to Texas to attend a festival are entitled to taxpayer funding for their flights and accommodation when they then decide not to bother playing at the event – the whole reason we were funding them to go in the first place?