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Report: Ireland faced with high income inequality and soaring wealth inequality
Before the Taoiseach jetted off to the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, I got the opportun...
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Social Welfare Bill 2016 – What kind of a society we want to live in?
The Finance Bill, the Social Welfare Bill and the budgets should be part of a bigger philosophical debate arou...
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My Budget 2017 Speech
Is cinnte go bhfuil athrú tagtha ar chúrsaí a bhaineann leis an mbuiséad. Tá atmaisféar difriúil againn inniu....
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Government give themselves a payrise
Yesterday the Government introduced a bill to lift the pay freeze off public servants including those of TDs a...
INTO had an excellent briefing in the National Museum of Ireland last July. The message coming across was that teachers are undervalued by the Department; I questioned Minister Bruton regar... Read more
Before the Taoiseach jetted off to the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, I got the opportunity to raise The World Economic Forum has placed Ireland eighth in its inclusive... Read more
A recent Oxfam report highlights that 8 men own as much wealth as 3.6 billion people – half the world. The report makes the point that this concentration in individual wealth drives poverty... Read more
The Finance Bill, the Social Welfare Bill and the budgets should be part of a bigger philosophical debate around what kind of a society we want to live in, now and in the future and about th... Read more
My Budget 2017 Speech
Is cinnte go bhfuil athrú tagtha ar chúrsaí a bhaineann leis an mbuiséad. Tá atmaisféar difriúil againn inniu. Bhí na buiséid a bhí againn le blianta beaga anuas go huafásach. Chuir siad ist... Read more
Yesterday the Government introduced a bill to lift the pay freeze off public servants including those of TDs and as a TD I feel it’s ludicrous to give the scope for TDs to get a pay in... Read more
The Honest Truth About Budget 2016
Beyond the headlines we have gone through and analysed Budget 2016 to give you the Good, the Bad and the Ugly details contained and what this means to you and what you care about. If you are... Read more
Vincent Browne loses it with the Government over statistics on the People’s Debate & what I said about Leinster House being on a different planet, corporations getting away with d... Read more
I have been making my submissions for Budget 2016 to the Ministers over the past few weeks; Each time I’ve made the point that we should never have been made pay for the greed of those... Read more
Good Government, Bad Government.
When Tony was first elected in 1982, he restored the faith in politics that many people had lost. Since the recession began that faith has definitely been tested many times over. This post i... Read more