The many, many, unanswered questions. Mainly because they have gone unasked.
The Green Party has told Gript that the €72 million Basic Income for the Arts scheme is “cost neutral” to the State, because without it, many recipients would simply “have to go back into the social welfare system and seek jobseekers allowance”:
“It is about eliminating stigma of social welfare.”
Roderic O’Gorman says there was a “strong” number of votes spoiled for Maria Steen, and says it’s worth having a conversation about whether the Presidential nomination process needs to be changed.
Roderic O’Gorman claims that NGOs are independent of Government. Ben Scallan presses him this, given that some NGOs receive over 90% of their funding from Government, and Paschal Donohoe has admitted they’re only funded if they’re “consistent with the Programme for Government”:
Asylum centre
“Here to stay.”
‘Unauthorised development’
The one decision we can say with certainty that voters took was to sack the bloody Greens.
One of the very few Greens who talks to me about anything said on Monday that she wondered very much about whether the election would have been nearly as disastrous for her party, in fact, had Ryan remained leader and contested the election.
Election 2024
General Election 2024