Absolutely disgusting behaviour from Stephen Donnelly today, interrupting and shouting down Verona Murphy, calling her antivax, as she points out that vaxxed people are just as likely to spread covid if infected as unvaxxed people.
Michael McNamara questions what exactly the end point is for restrictions.
"Are we going to impose these restrictions until we reach the end of liberal democracy as we know it?"
"I don't trust the figures. I don't trust the PCR tests, and that's been proven, and ye won't let any of the scientists with a contrarian view, or medics, in an ass's roar of ye. There's a controlled opposition and controlled media" - Mattie McGrath, TD.
#COVID19ireland
Sharon Keogan continues, giving some international context from Austria and Germany and points out that our civil liberties are now contingent on consuming a product from a private company.
Finally, an Irish politician addresses the hate campaign in the Irish media against unvaccinated people.
Sharon Keogan saying what needed to be said.
"Follow the science means shut up and do what we say"
Sharon Keogan defends and reiterates the point made by Verona Murphy about waning vax effectiveness in the Dáil yesterday which triggered Stephen Donnelly to shout her down, and makes it clear that dissenting voices will not be silenced.
Michael McNamara counters Stephen Donnelly's claims that TDs against restrictions are reckless by pointing out the gov's own reckless behaviour neglecting health and ignoring science on vax waning and masks.
I would like to thank Neale Richmond for his sterling work in exposing the nefarious aims of the government’s proposals. We couldn’t have done it without you, Neale.
#referendum2024
#Referendum24
Sharon Keogan on the extremely common, yet intellectually lazy and dishonest, tactic of labelling people "far-right" or "racist" for simply not unquestioningly nodding along with every progressive political fad.
Having moved past the rude interruption, Sharon Keogan goes on to lay out her opposition to Stephen Donnelly signing away Irish sovereignty to the WHO, and calls for such a serious move to be dealt with via referendum.
Sen. Sharon Keogan calls on the Seanad to condemn the authoritarian excesses of Justin Trudeau and his government in suppressing the
#Truckers
protests in Canada.
Ronan Mullen calls for the many holes in Kitty Holland's reporting of the alleged attack in Ashtown to be thoroughly investigated, and for the media in general to adopt a less sneering attitude towards the Irish people.
Willy O'Dea calls for a legal review of the implications of Ireland signing away sovereignty under the WHO Pandemic Treaty, followed by a weak waffling response from Micheál Martin.
Had a bit of a cold this week. No issues, slightly runny nose occasionally, no real cough, no body pains or tiredness. The only odd thing was loss of taste for maybe 4 days. Did an antigen test. Turns out it was covid 😂
And they want me to take shots every 6 months for this? 🤣
Catherine Connolly on the demonisation of unvaxxed people by members of the government and the difficulty in Ireland to have any kind of real discussion on alternative views.
Sharon Keogan reveals that a secretive satellite clinic from the (soon to be closed down) Tavistock centre has been operating within Crumlin hospital offering puberty blockers and other dubious treatments to Irish children with very little oversight.
Gerard Craughwell comments on the common phenomenon of asylum seekers arriving in Ireland without ID, and calls for them to be immediately returned to their country of origin.
Sharon Keogan begins to make her point about Stephen Donnelly's intention to sign Ireland up to the WHO's Global Pandemic Treaty and is immediately shouted down by Jerry Buttimer demanding that she be silenced.
Sharon Keogan on the failure of the vaccines and vax passes to reduce infections, highlighting the high case numbers despite near complete vaccination in Waterford, and calls for a reestablishment of the Oireachtas covid committee.
Micheál Martin seems VERY uncomfortable with Peadar Tóibín's launching of a bill to investigate the deaths in Irish nursing homes during the initial wave of covid-19 in 2020.
Accurate description of the likes of communist TDs such as Richard Boyd Barrett and Paul Murphy from Michael Healy-Rae: "The people who profess to represent the working man, they're the very people that if they met a day's work they'd run a million miles from it".
Sen. Ronan Mullen asks why the Irish media hasn't been reporting on the proposed psychological terror tactics which supporters of
#ZeroCovid
in Irish politics intend to use against an already psychologically vulnerable public.
#socdems
Sharon Keogan calling out the senators who have chosen to engage in extremely divisive language in demanding further exclusion of unvaccinated people from society, going on to ask people to wake up to our loss of freedom and democracy.
Stephen Donnelly manages to reach a new low, making the outrageous claim that people choosing not to get vaccinated are putting pressure on the health services and causing cancellations of operations for children.
Mattie McGrath calls for an independent analysis of the modelling and advice from NPHET.
"The entire NPHET modelling over the past 12 months has been wrong on almost every occasion. Wrong, wrong, wrong"
#indoordining
#disbandNphet
Michael McNamara on NPHET's overreach of power, and Stephen Donnelly's tendency to authoritarianism, as evidenced by the casual manner with which he has used his unprecedented powers to date.
#Covid19Ireland
#EnoughIsEnough
#reopening
Verona Murphy, Independent, explains her opposition to the often nonsensical and contradictory restrictions the government have introduced to date, and why she will be voting against the extension of emergency covid powers.
#Covid19Ireland
#EnoughIsEnough
Peadar Tóibín bringing a rare moment of sanity to the Dáil, pointing out the illegitimacy of the government leaning on the people when most who have died of covid in Ireland caught it in hospitals or nursing homes.
Leo Varadkar on the use of covid passes in Ireland: "We're working out now whether we can use that domestically. It was only ever intended for international travel".
Not so long ago, people who suggested this would happen were called crazy conspiracy theorists.
#disbandNphet
Mattie McGrath demands a full debate in the Dáil before the summer break on the introduction of medical apartheid to Ireland through vaccine passports.
#covid19Ireland
Sharon Keogan highlights Ireland's bloated NGO system, which, to a significant extent, is made up of publicly funded lobby groups without any involvement in charitable work.
"Strokes seem to be every couple of hours....I've never heard of so many people having strokes"
Wow, I wonder why that could be 🤔🤔🤔
Interesting little exchange on Liveline during a discussion on ambulance waiting times.
To become an EU commissioner you must demonstrate that you have absolutely no allegiance to you nation of origin. Micheál passed this test with flying colours.
Anybody with children in school, don’t mask your child today. Don’t let your child be abused to make deranged adults feel safer. If you don’t draw the line here, where do you draw it? Don’t be afraid to defend your own children. Otherwise, what use are you as a parent?
#Masks
If your primary reaction to 3 school children being stabbed by a migrant in Dublin is to be outraged at Irish people being angry, then you are part of the problem. We are way past the point of feigned civility. Our country is being destroyed before our eyes.
#IrelandisFull
Irish politicians must be sweating today trying to figure out a way to show sympathy for the attack in Annecy while also supporting the policies that caused it.
The only argument against Novak Djokovic seems to be “I had to do it so he should too”.
I haven’t seen any argument as to why a fit young man who already had covid is any more danger to himself, or anyone else, than a vaccinated person.
#novaxdjokovic
Roderic O'Gorman, as is typical these days, gives a fact-free speech in support of Ireland's shambolic asylum system, again insulting the public by implying the only reason to oppose them is either racism or misinformation.
Are people stupid enough to buy this?
#IrelandisFull
Ireland is planning to take in a number of refugees approximately equal to the population of Cork City, at a time when Irish people are struggling to find a home, and you are being told that it's going to be fine.
The people telling you this are your enemy.
Sharon Keogan calls for debate on the WHO pandemic treaty and the EU joint armed forces, going on to highlight the issue of attempts to silence dissenting voices.
Some fine points by Sharon Keogan, clarifying the difference between economic migrants and refugees, and our different duties to each, followed by a quick escape from Roderic O'Gorman, who was apparently called to a vote in the Dáil.
Michael McDowell points out that the extension of covid powers to November is, in effect, an indefinite extension, and describes the Oireachtas approach to oversight over the last year as "a scandal".
#COVID19ireland
Eileen Flynn on her desire to get a taxi driver convicted of a hate-crime for not wanting to drive her into a halting site last night.
Does it seem reasonable to make being afraid to enter halting sites at night a crime?
Mattie McGrath on the chilling effect of silencing dissenting voices on covid in Ireland, and the fact that the bill to extend emergency powers was introduced through the Seanad this week to avoid it being subjected to pre-legislative scrutiny.
#Covid19Ireland
#EnoughisEnough
Richard Boyd Barrett calls on the minister to invoke the Emergency Powers Act 1939 to enable the state to seize property in order to deal with housing demand from Ukrainians and other people without a home. Never miss an opportunity to agitate for communism, I guess.
Sharon Keogan again making excellent points about the government's new plan to create, what would effectively be, a Ministry of Truth, and, as usual, is harassed by the chair (Jerry Buttimer) and the Sinn Féin pair of Paul Gavan and Niall Ó Donnghaile.
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Annie Hoey warning the Irish gov that it may face sanctions from the European Court of Human Rights if it fails to provide accommodation for asylum seekers.
Isn't it weird that no such EU imposition exists for countries to provide for their own citizens?
#IrelandisFull
Micheál Martin on the high rate of no-shows for booster jab appointments in previous weeks. I guess we haven't quite got to vilifying these people as anti-vaxxers yet, but give it time.
Sharon Keogan goes on to stress the need for privacy and respect for decisions people make in not getting vaxxed.
"Whether I'm vaxxed or not is absolutely nobody's business"
Mattie McGrath dropping some serious truth-bombs in the Dáil - calling out the hypocritical
#ZeroCovid
opposition, RTE scaremongering, and the government blindly going along with EU plans for Digital Green Certs from before covid even existed.
#Covid19Ireland
#EnoughIsEnough
Michael McNamara questions the scientific grounding of vaccine certs and whether they are in fact just a means to deflect blame from the government's failings in regards to the health system.
Sharon Keogan questions the wisdom of Min. Catherine Martin choosing to participate in a photo, featuring both men in fetish-wear and young children, to represent the S. Patrick's Festival.
"We are certainly not all in it together"
- Catherine Connolly on her opposition to the continuation of the government's draconian and discriminatory suppression of civil liberties, as well as their tactic of demonising people to distract from their own vast failings.
Carol Nolan demands a debate on the issue of the Dept. of Health employing Kinzen to monitor and report on online discussions relating to covid deemed to be at odds with the officially endorsed narrative.
Michael McNamara: "If you had listened to people on the internet, or on social media last year predicting this, you'd say, there goes a conspiracy theorist.....but it's come to pass"
#NoVaccinePassports
#indoordining
Catherine Connolly, independent, on how the behaviour of the government in rushing through
#VaccineApartheid
and vaccine coercion without even pre-legislative scrutiny has caused her to lose trust in the democratic process.
Mattie McGrath marking
#EuropeDay
in the Dáil by calling out our feeble leaders and loss of independence as a nation, as well as the ramping up of totalitarianism throughout this "plandemic".
Sharon Keogan moved 4 amendments to the Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill on her own in the Seanad today, with no contributions from the other independent senators. It's good to see at least one person there putting in the work to have a pro-liberty voice heard.
Sharon Keogan accurately describes her treatment within the Oireachtas as an "ongoing hate campaign" and is immediately shouted down by establishment hack politicians such as Mary Seery Kearney,
Austrian celebrity Josef Fritzl to be appointed as consultant in Austria's lockdown of the unvaccinated.
Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg was quoted as saying: "If anyone knows how to keep people locked in their homes against their will, it's Josef!"
If you think that Ireland is in more danger from the far right than the far left, then, I’m afraid, you’re either an absolute moron or mentally deranged.
Mattie McGrath presents a petition of more than 14,000 parents and grandparents to Micheál Martin demanding an end to mask mandates for school-children, and describes the current system as a form of child abuse.
Sharon Keogan calls on the government to address the legitimate concerns of the public about the impact of its unsustainable immigration policies.
#IrelandIsFull
Mattie McGrath: "If we keep this going on much longer, we won't have an economy to recover", and hints at the idea that the government has sold the country out to some greater power.
#NoVaccinePassports
#DublinProtest
Sen. Ronan Mullen questions the need for further covid restrictions in Ireland, pointing to other parts of the world which have opened up with no issues, and doubts whether our government is actually following the science at all.
#Covid19Ireland
#EnoughIsEnough
The president-elect of TCD Students’ Union has spoken about the importance of trans visibility, describing it as "an act of defiance." Jenny Maguire was speaking on International Transgender Day of Visibility, an annual event dedicated to celebrating transgender people worldwide.
Mattie McGrath on the dangers of extending powers of the detention for potential sources of infection, given the current climate where unvaccinated people could be labelled as such.
Mattie McGrath questions why Helen McEntee is intent on introducing such poorly defined legislation on hate speech when she is letting the people of Ireland down in so many other areas, such as crime and illegal immigration.
Sharon Keogan calls for the protection of women's sports from biological males who identify as women under Ireland's system of gender self-identification.
I often used to wonder how people stayed quiet when children were being abused in schools in Ireland in the past. Surely, many people knew and said nothing out of cowardice and reverence for authority?
I don't wonder anymore, because it's happening again.
#MasksInSchool
Sharon Keogan to Stephen Donnelly on his increasingly open-ended tyrannical restrictions and dictatorial powers, during which she is rudely interrupted by Jerry Buttimer.
A non-native politician in Ireland has publicly called for the murder of Irish people.
If this isn't prosecuted and punished harshly, there can be no doubt as to the intent of the incoming hate speech legislation as a tool against native Irish people.