“I would conservatively estimate that something like 100-150 hours of people’s time, cumulatively, have gone into producing this shitshow.”
“You’re not addressing the substance of the point…You’re filibustering”: Ben Scallan grills Charities Minister Jerry Buttimer on the Government’s policy of only funding activist NGOs that are in line with the Government’s agenda. https://youtu.be/bzMDZn2l4UM
Orla O’Connor
It’s a disgrace. But it’s only a disgrace because the public don’t care enough to do anything about it.
Closed to the media.
“People are going to take judicial reviews, whether you like it or I like it”: Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Bróin says the problem with planning objections is not environmental NGOs serially objecting, but the lack of State staff able to process the objections.
40% goes to just 30 large NGOs
NGOs
Stonewall deserved to lose their funding years ago.
TDs speak out
“It is a deterrent.”
Lip service.