There are certainly elements of the DeBrun case which, on their face, are very concerning
Lockdown, a dangerous stupid policy decision then, which turned out to be a dangerous and stupid policy decision five years on.
I got it wrong, in many ways and at many times.
Employers, not employees, should call the shots.
There is at least one candidate on every ballot paper who would have joined the chorus of the questioning over the past five years, rather than the legions of consensus. Those candidates should be the ones you support, in our estimation.
Govt should not be shielded from public scrutiny
If it’s just another political memoir about climbing the greasy pole and getting bored once you reach the top, then we can toss it in the “I might read that later” column, with all the other political memoirs.
The past – including covid 19 – is a way to draw that contrast between insiders and outsiders. Such a contrast, one might think, would be very valuable to anybody looking to break into the system on June 7th.
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.
We can also say with certainty that those lockdown years had immense costs that have never been truthfully acknowledged by those who promoted the lockdowns
We don’t treat our politicians like that here, for better, or for worse.
Is it easier, in the round, to imagine Ireland becoming more like China as a result of this treaty, or China becoming more like Ireland?