If Irish people desire an alternative to their political culture, they will need to build it themselves.
While leaders like Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald bestrode the national stage as political and intellectual giants, today Micheál Martin and Simon Harris work hard to imitate leadership.
To put this in context, that total funding equates to an annual budget of over €220,000 for every child in Tusla’s care.
The biggest reason why Harris should have avoided Finance is that Prudent Paschal was not in the least bit prudent.
The health budget for next year alone – before the HSE’s inevitable cost over-runs, mind you – is at a record level of over €27billion.
Mockery or genius?
“Everywhere where I look women are poisoning key institutions and making crappy policy decisions based not on reason but emotions.”
The actual way to bring down rents and increase supply is, paradoxically, to favour landlords in housing policy.
The David Moyes of the Irish Economy.
In that 10 years the finances of the Irish middle-class have been crushed and the State has expanded.
Deputy Boyd Barrett would have us believe that compassion alone is reason not to enforce the state’s rules and regulations around who should be entitled to live in this country
“Hubris”, he says, “is our biggest threat”.