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Mattie McGrath: “The thought that [asylum seekers] all get automatic medical cards is just a pure joke. It sticks in the craw of…all the other countless patients that are striving and begging to get a medical card, and they can’t.”
Does anyone believe it anymore?
This week Taoiseach Leo Varadkar launched an attack on Gript, dubbing this outlet “disingenuous” and questioning our funding sources after we tried to ask about Minister Catherine Martin being fact checked by the Electoral Commission. Ben Scallan responds.
“The Taoiseach will work in line with the SIPO rules and regulations and will comply with them.” – Minister Helen McEntee when asked whether Leo Varadkar should release the unredacted version of his correspondence with SIPO, as covered by The Ditch. Question by Ben Scallan.
“I don’t think that sort of language serves us well.”
IGNORED: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar walks out of a press briefing as Ben Scallan is mid-sentence asking about government ministers spreading referendum misinformation.
While I am not permitted to attribute quotes to the diplomatic outpost in question, it’s fair to describe the reaction as withering.
Ultimately, none of this will impact the outcome of the conflict one way or another.
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Arguments about misinformation cannot be sustained when the Government itself is openly misinforming voters about the consequences of what they are asking the public to vote on.
“Leo Varadkar, in my view, should get better advice…He misunderstood what the Dublin Convention is all about.” Dr. Mehari Fisseha, PhD in Migration Studies, speaks to @Ben_Scallan about Ireland’s asylum system, Neale Richmond’s family-reunification comments, and more.
It is to the states’ shame that the Ditch had to go fighting for this information, and to the Ditch’s very great credit that they went and fought for it.
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