By any measure, this is an extraordinary increase in the demand on the asylum system in a very short timeframe.
How do I know, for example, that a promise from Eoin O’Broin is impossible to keep? The simple answer is “maths”.
‘You’re denying my existence’
This policy should have never been adopted, and it should be abandoned.
“This is a common part of election practices,” Ó’Broin claimed.
Absolute nonsense. But, probably popular nonsense. And it’s a Sinn Fein bill, so sheer, mindless, partisanship will mean that at least thirty per cent of the population will decide that it’s a great idea, just because it came from their team, even though it’s one of the most terrible ideas imaginable. Why? More on that […]
An Irish Examiner story, for the record, not one of ours. We have higher standards, you see. Anyway, here’s what they wrote. It went super-viral online, as you might expect: “A number of TDs have raised the question of new allowances to allow them to purchase office equipment while they work from home during the […]