€2.1 billion total
Almost every single one of them are dependent on the taxpayers – the same people who have just delivered a thumping NoNo vote.
Gatekeepers for your tax money
At odds with public
On ‘terfs’ and other things
The Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth, Roderick O’Gorman has confirmed that the costs in relation to transporting asylum applicants to reception centres, accommodation centres and emergency accommodation located throughout the State from 2011 to 2021 currently stands at €2.4 million. The information was supplied following a parliamentary question on the matter […]
So what, cries the taxpayer, do they do with all the bread, man?
In a significant victory for the local community of the south Dublin quays, the High Court this morning upheld an appeal against a heroin injection facility at Merchants Quay. The proposal included a needle exchange and the provision of what locals describe as a “shooting gallery” for heroin users in a basement at the facility […]
Timmy Dooley, who signed off on the FF policy document on future funding of broadcasting, print and digital media, told me in conversation last week that taxpayer money would not be made available to “little organs of hate”. He would not be drawn on the Irish media outlets he had in mind. It raises a great […]
Even with the current Covid panic, the issue of homelessness continues to exercise many. The current estimate stands at around 10,000 people homeless in Ireland, of whom almost half are in Dublin. The exact criteria for such a determination is somewhat vague, but even so, many people are finding it difficult to get a home […]
One of the great things about being a modern, liberated woman is that your autonomy and your right to decide for yourself is respected. We’re all strong, feisty, opinionated and independent women now, smashing the patriarchy and taking no prisoners. The future is female, we’re told. Gone are the days when women were hidebound by convention and told […]