57 v 72
Government votes with
#vulturefunds
Votes against the
@SocDems
amendment calling for a 100 per cent stamp duty rate on the bulk buying of homes by vulture funds. This would prevent speculators from snapping up multiple homes in housing developments at the expense of…
Ministerial Clap
Rather than giving the three 'super' junior ministers another €16,000 on top of their €124,000 -
@RBoydBarrett
suggests giving them a round of applause like they gave healthcare workers on the frontline
#Dail
#corruptkip
When I saw how little media coverage the story of the woman who lost her unborn baby after a savage beating on Dame Street recieved. I said to people, I bet she was a homeless woman.
She was.
Some people really don't matter in this society.
#DontForgetMe
🤣
Eamon Ryan is looking for every single councillor "to be queer" in the local elections.
Varadkar breaks his bollox laughing. A man free of the pressures of the role of An Taoiseach.
10 hours radio a week gets Claire Byrne a whopping €280,000 from the Licence Fee 🤕
It has to stop, these salaries to the *stars* are immoral.
#todaycb
#HowIrelandWorks
This is a disgraceful way for the Taoiseach
@LeoVaradkar
to address a member of parliament -
@Ginosocialist
has the very same mandate as every other politican in the
#Dail
I'm openly telling you, I haven't read 3,000 pages.
Although our former President tells us that she read it, she tells us, it's 'scholarly and profound' - I absolutely, fundamentally disagree. -
@catherinegalway
#MotherAndBabyHomes
Full contribution 👇
Varadkar says he continues to have confidence in the RTÉ executive board as he sits beside Simon Coveney whose brother Rory Coveney is on that executive board in RTÉ.
#HowIrelandWorks
F**king Ditch
Without The Ditch, Robert Troy would still be a Minister, without The Ditch, Damien English would still be a Minister - no wonder you are attempting to undermine the Ditch, because they have been quite successful in exposing corrupt, unethical practices by…
'What kind of country do we live in where our national broadcaster can host a debate on why you shouldn’t vote for the opposition?'
#HowIrelandWorks
#cblive
Sickening.
They've removed the long benches from the front of the Custom House & replaced them with these grotesque yokes to stop the homeless from sleeping on them.
@DubCityCouncil
never fail to sicken.
#not1home
#Homeless
#DontForgetMe
We are going to need a protest, like nothing the country has seen before. And drive this government out of office and demand an election.
They are literally selling the country from under us.
'I am deeply concerned by a party and a leader who sat around a cabinet table with people who were subsequently jailed for corruption' -
@MaryLouMcDonald
@MichealMartinTD
handed his arse this evening
#Dail
#GE2020
Questions no Answers.
Taoiseach
@MichealMartinTD
now having a row with
@gavreilly
accusing him of overplaying differences in what he said & what
@LeoVaradkar
said on how long restrictions will last.
The worst government at the worst time.
#HowIrelandWorks
Outrageous stuff !!
Distraught house-hunters who went sale agreed on seven properties in an estate in Co Mayo have been informed that the houses have now been sold to a single buyer instead
A company called Greendrive Asset Holdings Limited, with an address in Kilmaine, Co…
Neoliberalism.
We have now 10,325 people homeless and your telling us that your policies are working ?
I live in a city where last week someone was on a trolley for SEVEN DAYS, almost blind with a catheter -
@catherinegalway
#NoConfidenceGov
#WeWantAnElection
Eamon Ryan, with a salary of around €190,000 plus expenses & with 8 Advisers
earning a combined salary of €729,669
Says Government will have to ‘wean’ people off cost of living supports i.e keeping the lights on or putting food on the table
#CostofLivingCrisis
🔥
Would you like to apologise to Barry Cowen for the leeway you've shown the Tánaiste & Foreign Affairs Minister ? Similarly, Dara Calleary got swift justice.
Full link 👇
#MerrionGate
#HowIrelandWorks
( Question
@Philip_Ryan
)
Extraordinary Stuff !!
Asked why Barry Cowen was sacked for not answering questions before the Dail, while the opposition is refused the opportunity to ask Niall Collins questions for the second time. The Tanaiste refuses to answer
@HollyCairnsTD
questions, but goes on to attack…
Chilling- Israeli Embassy has questions to answer.
There's a particular campaign going on with the Israeli Embassy in relation to anyone who speaks out or says something differently. And a speech I made in the Dáil has been the subject of, more than a comment, a detailed…
The Government has now approved proposals for two referendums on 8 March 2024
I have serious difficulty promoting this referendum and I repeatedly classify myself as a very strong feminist - but this is an insult and it's a double insult to hold it on…
Standing ovation for the Palestinian Ambassador at the
#SFAF23
this evening.
'The world sees Israeli actions for what they are. Barbaric, hateful, cowardly, war crimes'
@MaryLouMcDonald
#GazaCeasefireNOW
Rte News
If Niall Collins goes, the Government falls. They can't allow an online publication to wipe out a Government.
That's why the reluctance of the MSM to cover it.
#HowIrelandWorks
#DeNiall
#Ditched
#DeNiall
Why has the Irish Media gone silent on the Minister Niall Collins Scandal ?
Is it not the role of the media to hold the government & power entities to account ?
Newspaper publishers recently won their battle for print and digital newspapers to be zero-rated for VAT…
Hamburg can build a children's hospital for €70m
Helsinki can build a hospital for €170m
Dublin? Over €2BN ++ - it stinks, that all to familiar smell of corruption that is so ingrained in the politics of Fine Gael and Fianna Fail
#LookBack2019
Happy New Year.
Powerful Contribution
Voluntary never Discriminatory
'What is really extraordinary is, the more that we vaccinate, the more that we use enforcement - that's an appalling scenario, with absolutely no pathway out of this.'
@catherinegalway
#Dail
What was Sean O'Rourke doing at an Oireachtas Golf Event ? The man who was until recently being paid over €300,000 to hold politicians to account on
@RTERadio1
.
#golfgate
Something that has never happened before - Minister
@ReginaDo
lost for words as a young woman tells her she should be ashamed - "we are forced to emigrate to have a family". 👏👏👏
NINE YEARS IS ENOUGH
WE, deserve better.
#GE20
#GE2020
#rtept
Taoiseach says he will be travelling home to see his family tonight in Cork - like id love to see my own family, but they are not within the 5Km limit.
Housing Crisis, Health Crisis, Cost of Living Crisis, Cronisyism & Corruption.
On holiday now until September 20th.
Is this the worst Government the country has ever had ?
'Sweet Jesus, what have we done as women to allow somebody like this speak in our name & attempt to reassure us that we own this hospital and we go through this labyrinthine thing, for what ? To serve the Interests of SVHG '
@catherinegalway
#NMH
Powerful!
#WhereDoWeGo
?
A married woman, with a child going through chemotherapy who is going to be evicted. Another lady who has stage 4 COPD, on constant oxygen is going to be evicted by your Government.
"We always knew that Fine Gael didn't give a damn about them,…
I saw
@GardaTraffic
takes bags of cans from a couple of homeless men tonight, after they bought them in the shop.
I'm now reading
@GardaTraffic
decided to give Phil Hogan a caution rather than a €60 fine and two penalty points for driving while on the phone.
#GolfGate
The strongest feeling I have, is my disappointment with the Government what they have done. They used propaganda to push through two changes to our constitution in a manner that was patronising and patriarchal. And that women's group joined in and used that type of language, is…
Hard to believe what this country has become. The Government has a lot to answer for.
These children don't deserve to face this today. Shameful day in Roscrea.
#RefugeeCrisis
The people who come to the soup kitchens are mainly families with young children who have no cooking facilities in emergency accommodation. The volunteers are the best of people showing humanity at its very best. There is very rarely any trouble just desperate, hungry people.
Can we not just agree, whatever your politics, that children with scoliosis/spina diffida or any other illness should not be left, waiting in agony for years for surgery.
Surely the country can manage that ?
I'm ten years on Twitter. Over last week, I've been forced to mute more abusive anonymous accounts than over the whole of previous ten years.
Asking people to contact their TD & ask two questions, should not be faced with such hostile reaction
Keep asking
Who are
#Merrion50
?
Worth a Watch.
Fine Gael really don't care about working class communities.
Scathing contribution from
@GaryGannonTD
this afternoon.
The experience of the Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire parents over the last 24hours. At 2.30 today, when those parents collected their children,…
Sean Fleming was the junior minister who said people should shop around instead of “complaining” about the rising cost of living.
Look at the expenses he was claiming when the Dáil wasn't sitting.
#HowIrelandWorks
Having claimed to have driven more than 8,000 kilometres in three months when the Dáil wasn’t sitting, Fianna Fáil junior minister Seán Fleming has denied submitting inaccurate ministerial driving expenses claims.
His diary accounts for less than 1,000.
Ireland is Broken
A UK-BASED property investment fund has purchased 85% of the homes in a new housing estate in north Dublin.
Occu, a private rental sector company owned by Sw3 Capital, is now advertising the four-bedroom properties for rent at €3,175 per month.…
Before the opposition can raise their concerns about religious influence over the New National Maternity Hospital they have to stand up and say their prayers.
70 v 78
Heartless & Cruel - how could a Government vote against this.
Amendment in the name of Peadar Tóibín TD to the Government amendment on the Sinn Féin Motion re Eviction Ban.
"calls on the Government to make provisions to ensure that no person can be evicted if they…
Where do they go
@joefingalgreen
?
✊
We have a neighbour, she is a widow she has four children...she's out on the 15th of May, where's she going Joe ?
@loreillysf
Incredible to think the Minster once worked in homeless services and was a whistleblower, now part of the…
I very rarely hear about Peter Casey except from the media .
Real solution to migration is to stop bombing people out of their homes
@lukeming
#TonightVMTV
💯
Paddy Cosgrave has nothing to apologise for
All those tech companies and individuals that are now returning their passes for the Web Summit in Lisbon next month are the ones that should be cancelled. And that includes the Collinson brothers Irish owned Stripe.…
A garda suspended for three years after he provided an elderly, isolated man with an unclaimed bicycle for transport during the pandemic will appear before a sworn disciplinary inquiry on Tuesday.
#HowIrelandWorks
#Garda
Ali Bracken
Incredible.
I see
@rte
removed Noel Edmonds mentioning the Irish Banking Crisis on the 'Ray Darcy Show' from the
@RTEplayer
? Completely edited this section out.
#RTEbias
With this Government, it seems if you fail, you can fail to the very top.
Powerful contribution from
@MaryLouMcDonald
as she sets out the record of Simon Harris -the man who brought down the last government, when Fianna Fáil had no confidence in him. The man who failed in this…
The women were hidden away.
It's time to stop talking about the vulnerable women - they weren't vulnerable. They were strong, vivacious women, who were made vulnerable by the system. Who were demonised by the system.-
@catherinegalway
#Dail
#StopTheSeal
#MotherAndBabyHomes
'There's no phoneline to rat out bankers, there's no phoneline to rat out corruption at the various levels'-
Emmett Kirwan
#ResignLeo
We, deserve better.
On practically every street in Dublin City Centre there is a human being in a sleeping bag.
This is
@MichealMartinTD
&
@LeoVaradkar
's Ireland.
We are better than this.
A Government of the Left with our first woman Taoiseach
@MaryLouMcDonald
- without Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael is exactly the bit of hope the country so desperately needs.
#LateLateShow
Incredible stuff.
Neale Richmond trying to claim that Government transparency led to the resignation of Damien English, when it was the investigative journalism of
@wereontheditch
that forced his hand.
#HowIrelandWorks
#TonightVMTV
The lads wearing their daffodils after failing to support a simple ammendment yesterday to protect people with cancer from eviction.
#WhereDoWeGo
?
#Dail
#LQs
Hate speech bill is ‘restrictive and undemocratic�� warns barrister, as 7,000 people sign petition
Grace Sullivan also warned that people may not be aware of how detrimental the Government’s new bill could be to their freedom of speech, until after the law has passed.
The new…
RTE Secret Payments - Gets Worse !
Did you ask Dee Forbes to resign ?
" I did, last Friday' -Siún Ni Raghallaigh - ( June 16th )
Did you not think the Oireachtas would want to ask her questions ?
Who went on to the
@rtenews
#sixine
and never informed the viewers. This is not…
Dublin Airport only guaranteeing security staff 20-hr week & €283 wage amid severe passenger delays
Pay people a decent wage with decent terms & conditions and you wouldn't be left wishing for staff ?
F**king Ditch
Barry Cowen failed to declare his ownership of 32 acres of farmland for nine years – only rectifying the issue after the resignation of his party colleague Robert Troy. Today Cowen confirmed to The Ditch the land is let – meaning not only has he failed to declare…
Landlord Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen doesn't declare his rental income from farmland that he hadn’t acknowledged his ownership of for almost a decade
He only declared he owns the 32 acres after his party colleague Robert Troy resigned his junior ministry
Are there no consequences for this? Are they allowed to do as they f**king like?
Josepha Madigan made bogus ministerial mileage claims over four years.
#HowIrelandWorks
#GeneralElectionlNow
@wereontheditch
need to be commended for their work on this.…
Varadkar keeps saying the €500 tax rebate for renters represents a months rent for most people!? What planet is he leaving on ? This Government is out of touch.
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#LQs
Looks like it is not just
@finegael
who have concerns about the Minister for Health and his ability to get the
#vaccine
out in a timely manner.
#Dail
#ThirdWave
RTE Secret Payments -July 5th 2023
Media Committee
Jollies
Why does your husband go along to every event with tickets bought by RT€ ?
@ImeldaMunster
#dail
#RteGate
12 YEARS since Fine Gael infamously declared they would "end the scandal of patients on trolleys"
A record 931 admitted patients are waiting for a hospital bed, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.
#HealthCrisis
#HowIrelandWorks
Dublin stabbing: Victim is from migrant family
The child, who suffered catastrophic injuries when she was stabbed outside a Gaelscoil on Parnell Square, was born to a father from eastern Europe and a mother from South America.
IT BEGINS
Shocking video footage has shown a family of eight being evicted without notice from rented accommodation just days before St Patrick’s Day.
The Brazilian-Portuguese couple evicted from their Donegal home were told that their children could be taken from them, the…
Green party leader Eamon Ryan’s St Patrick’s Day trip will exceed a whole year’s worth of carbon emissions from the average family car.
He flies to Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, which equates to a total of 4.52 metric tonnes
A man believed to be homeless was found in a tent on Monday in Dublin 2 - it is believed he had been dead for several days.
A second man was found dead in emergency accommodation on Thursday.
What's happened to Ireland ?
It appears to be, at the very least, a mentally ill man, who is accused of the multiple stabbings at Parnell Square was previously released by a Judge for having possession of a knife and criminal damage without any charge or referral to the probation services or mental health…