And the political class, as a whole, lacks any interest in holding the administrative state to account.
This kind of governance has ruined the country before, and, given the chance, it will ruin it again.
Why shouldn’t policy, rather than encouraging and incentivising two-income households, work more towards making one-income families viable?
A breakdown of Tuesday’s Oireachtas Budgetary Oversight Committee meeting
They shouldn’t do tax cuts at all: They should do tax rebates. And they should do them in January.
There are big questions, I think, to be asked of Ireland’s economic model and the kind of society it has produced.
A government that is block buying homes out from under its own working citizens in order to give those homes to non-working citizens is sending a message.
Putting Irish people first
A long history
In all of this, the Irish banks for all their sins are simply piggy in the middle
“Cash is legal tender in Ireland.”
Irish Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe says he “respects” the decision of groups like the National Ploughing Championship to not accept cash payments at events. #gript