Like almost every Irish politician since time began, he sees his job as to defend the state against you, and not to defend you, against the state.
Fine Gael, clearly, is not a happy political party. And the blame for that starts at the very top.
Same approach.
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This is part of a legislative pattern: The Government’s most abiding fear, at this moment in time, is that you the public are seeing things and hearing things that it does not wish you to hear.
It was a speech for the hardcore Fine Gaeler, the kind of person who looks at the party’s record in Government and wonders why the rest of us seem so bloody lacking in gratitude.
‘Who would want more abortions?’
All that the constitution says on the matter is that war shall not be declared, and no war shall be participated in, save with the consent of the Dáil.
‘No money for small people’
the absence of a SIPO investigation is not, in any way, shocking.