Seán

Fine Gael has allowed bailed-out banks and vulture funds to pay almost no tax.

Maybe they also want to blame that on an individual accountant.

Ivan Yates describing online criticism of Irish media bias as "West Belfast systematic programming".

How silly of us, must have just been imagining it.

Workers should get priority for social housing - Minister A Minister of State has called on a local authority to prioritise workers when allocating social housing.

Politician and landlord with 11 properties wants you to blame people on disability for the housing crisis.

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Ireland is being made complicit in funding genocide.

Irish Central Bank gives Israel the permission it needs to sell war bonds across the EU. No other central.

Sinn Féin legislation - Israeli War bonds Bill - will pull the plug on these war bonds.

Government must back this bill

#speirghorm

🇵🇸 The Irish government must stop allowing Ireland to be used to fund Israel’s genocide in Palestine.

Mary Lou McDonald and I are introducing a Bill that will force the government to end the sale of Israeli war bonds through the Irish Central Bank.

#SpéirGhorm #speirgorm #gaza

Musk must not like the UN coordinating countries to properly tax corporations and billionaires

Additional €450m Exchequer boost to provide 3,000 cost rental, affordable and social homes A memo will go Cabinet today allocating the substantial funding increase towards the delivery of housing.

Pure spin. Housing budget last year was 5.1 billion. With this "additional" funding the budget in 2025 will be 5.1 billion.

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All the text is in the thread instead

Thread: Important article on the status of trans people in Ireland by Jenny Maguire, President of Trinity College Students’ Union. Jenny is one of my heroines & a major voice in civil society.

“I'm trans, but few politicians would now utter that word, let alone advocate for us” #SpeirGorm #LGBTQ

Government clashing over hosuing policy.

Fine Gael want to maintain the housing shortage to enrich a small group people.

Fianna Fáil want to promote rampant property specualtion to enrich a small group of people.

EVs sales up 20 percent.
Tesla not in the top 10

Public libraries are amazing!
Did you know you can borrow a book from any library in the country and return it to any other library?
Did you know they have subscriptions to huge amounts of national and international media that you can access?

Meanwhile his vice president is in Europe lecturing us about free speech

Number of people in the media arguing the only way to reduce rents is to increase rents is wild

#SpéirGhorm

Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael have decided to throw renters to the wolves and take the side of the vulture funds.

Renters right across the country are already being fleeced, they simply cannot afford further rent hikes.

We will continue to fight the Government on this.

#SpéirGhorm

Ires Reit shares hit eight-month high on talk of rent caps being lifted Shares in Ireland’s biggest private landlord rose more than 4% on Monday morning

We need to end the sweetheart deals and finally tax real estate investment funds

Instead, the Taoiseach is boosting their share price talking about scraping rent pressure zones

Sacrificing renters to investment funds will not solve the housing crisis

#SpéirGorm

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Simon Harris: Darragh O'Brien shouldn't have given government the 40,000 housing figure The government has been accused of “misleading the public” on housing delivery.

The CSO clearly flagged all year that they were not going to get close to 40,000.

There is only one reason to ignore the Central Statistics Office.

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Simon Harris asked to admit he misled the public on housing figures in the elections

He responded by saying there is 'good momentum' in house building

And, the parties that formed the government with independents won a clear majority

So that's a hard doubling down on misleading then

#speirgorm

Ireland has a role to play on the international stage - We led the way when we opposed apartheid in South Africa and we can now lead the way again by prohibiting imports from occupied territories.

#SpéirGorm #Palestine #OccupiedTerritoriesBill #SpéirGhorm #Gaza

So they blatantly lied about housing delivery and about the occupied territories bill.

#speirgorm

Micheál Martin clearly rattled in the Dáil today, claiming he didn't mislead the public on housing figures during the election

Independents weren't the only ones willing to go into government. They were just picked first because their price was the lowest. 5 jobs, zero policy changes.

Government u-turn on their u-turn

Cost to taxpayer of OPW project to replace a wall doubled to €490,000 The works at the Dublin HQ of the Workplace Relations Commission were originally expected to cost around €200,000 exclusive of VAT.

Half a million is a joke. But even the proposed cost of €200,000 plus VAT for a 70 metre wall seems insane.

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Michael Lowry's company for secret property transfers A “Michael Lowrey” took ownership of a new home before selling to independent TD Michael Lowry’s daughter for €50,000.

A “Michael Lowrey” – with an E – took ownership of a new home before selling to independent TD Michael Lowry’s daughter for €50,000.

Lowry’s refrigeration company later bought the house from his daughter for €290,000 and remains the current owner.

www.ontheditch.com/michael-lowr...

The disarray in Dáil all stems from using the position of Ceann Comhairle as a bargaining chip in the formation of government.

Gonna be a tough four years listening to Trump go on about the US being the victim

Another grim milestone

Not only has Ireland not brought a single sanction against Israel, but we are actively facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds across the EU.

Letters to the Editor: Central Bank ‘must stop funding genocide’ 'By providing the gateway into Europe for Israel bonds, the CBI is making itself complicit in funding genocide and apartheid'

By providing the gateway into Europe for Israel bonds, the CBI is making itself complicit in funding genocide and apartheid.
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