“This number is getting higher every year.”
“well paid, reliable jobs”
Simon Harris says it is “entirely true” that the government could increase funding for carers, with or without a ‘Yes’ vote in the care referendum, despite Roderic O’Gorman’s claim that the referendum would help to secure such funding. Question by Ben Scallan.
It’s “elite” now in Ireland to earn €45,000 working as a policy officer for an NGO and to express your views on the climate emergency and the need for effective trans healthcare, but it is decidedly not elite to earn twice that amount as a plumber but to be worried about immigration and crime.
“To help achieve our climate goals.”
Irish Ex-Health Minister Simon Harris was asked if he is “ashamed” that children are still waiting years for scoliosis procedures – a problem he said would be solved by 2017. “I accept responsibility,” he said, before adding that the target was given to him by the HSE. #gript
“People will ultimately judge us by how well we’ve worked together.”
Remembers the “entire construction industry collapsing.”
She might as well have said “well, come into Dublin at your own risk”. In fact, scratch “might as well” – that’s exactly what she said.
“I don’t want to comment on individual cases”: After a brief interruption, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar answers whether he takes responsibility for children waiting years for scoliosis surgery – a problem that then-Health Minister Simon Harris said would be solved by 2017. #gript
Flashback.
“It is the kind of thing that only a fundamentally unserious party, or country, would do.”