“What the fuck do they want us to do?”, said Minister asked: “tell them we don’t want their money?”
We cannot sustain both a functioning welfare system and open borders.
“We spend our money as intelligently as we possibly can.”
Doing politics right, whatever about policy.
How much of our money is being spent every day to cook food that is thrown out?
Echoing our own Fiscal Advisory Council, The Economist concluded that “Governments are living far beyond their means.”
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.
Meanwhile, National Gallery spent €125k on unused x-ray machine
And counting.
The Irish Government simply cannot keep increasing spending at its current rate, or we will all pay a crippling price, before the next decade is out.
Ireland is no exception when it comes to dodgy public sector accounting.
The experts nobody wants to listen to.