“I don’t know the details of that particular case” – Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’ when asked about a child being permanently paralysed due to lack of spinal surgery, as raised in the Seanad by Senator Tom Clonan this week.
Speaking in Brussels.
Effects of “bureaucratic zealotry”
“I’d encourage people to pay the TV licence.”
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It is, perhaps, the stupidest three paragraphs of text ever suggested to an Irish Government.
In 2019, a Fine Gael Cabinet Minister openly demanded a “national debate” on immigration “now”, and said many of the same things that local communities are saying about migration today, except with minimal controversy. What changed, asks Ben Scallan?
Facts say otherwise
Predicted they “be in a position to form a new government.”
“Let’s not forget why people are here.”
Varadkar asked about his “far-right myth” asylum claim
How things change.