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Senator Marie Louise O’Donnell

Exhausted the poor thing.

Yet ‘on message’.

“I am, I am [going to pay]. I think we have to pay for water… I have to tell you, I am exhausted listening to the word ‘austerity’. I am really exhausted…I think it is in one way, our society is a benevolent society, we are a good society, it’s a good place to live if you live with the system, it is. It would treat you well, it will feed you well, it will educate you well and it does, it does. It tries to look after its poor and it tries to educate all its citizens.”

Senator Marie Louise O’Donnell on Tonight With Vincent Browne last night.

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40 thoughts on “Tired Of It

  1. Shill watch

    Saw her two weeks ago driving around in her newish (silver) Mercedes. The society looks after her very well, it seems.

  2. ahjayzis

    “it’s a good place to live if you live with the system, it is”

    Of course it is. I’d say it’s a paradise when you’re on the payroll of three taxpayer funded operations and stand to benefit from two platinum plated public pensions.

    I’d be rosey about life too if I worked 2 days a week, half the year, for 60 grand.

    1. Hashtag Diversity

      They’re all at it. Look at Senator Katherine “30K Unvouched For Expenses” Zappone. The new “people’s friend” out campaigning for the same-sex marriage referendum early, sorry the rights of citizens to free water. Boy, did that strategy backfire at Jobstown.

  3. DoM

    For all the problems, what percentage of people who have ever lived have more state assistance provided to them then a modern Irish person?

    I KNOW that some of our services aren’t perfect (to put it mildly), but the way some people go on it’s as if everyone else who ever lived has had access to advanced medicine, paid by the state, without waiting, and we’re the first ones to ever have issues with providing this.

    Not to argue against public service ineptitude, and it does stink a bit when an incompetent government points out that actually it’s not so bad, but there is some truth in it…

    1. Jock

      55% of our revenue is spent on welfare only for the entitled recipients throw that good will back in the tax payers face.

    2. JimmytheHead

      i’d love to see a comparison of someone whos in receipt of every possible social/public benefit – to this womans annual expenses/salary/bonuses/pension(s)….etc

  4. Soundings

    So long as you’re sucking from the State’s teat having been given the nod to the Seanad by Enda, a €60k/year role role from which you’re invariably absent, as long as you’re continuing to draw a salary as a lecturer and as long as you are provided with regular appearance fees courtesy of Messrs Browne and O’Rourke, this place is nirvana and anyone who says differently is a bitter degenerate.

    1. Columbo's Missus

      Not dismissing the validity of your point but politicians don’t get paid to go on Vinny B. Non pols get €50.

      1. Soundings

        I heard that used to be the case, but is it still? When he was on his high horse 2-3 years ago about politicians’ pay, Vinny was challenged about his own pay at TV3 and he said he was on €58k. I understand he’s on more like €400k today. Not bad for a programme which rarely gets more than 100,000 viewers (last Thursday’s with Mairia Cahill got 147,000 but that was a signal exception). But you’d think if Vinny was getting €400,000 his guests might get something.

  5. Spaghetti Hoop

    What about the citizens who pay for the upkeep of the ‘System’ yet don’t receive the benefits?

  6. Clampers Outside!

    Does she know that 22%+ of the working population are tinkering on slipping into poverty according to the OECD.

    That’s not a country taking care of its people, that’s a country abusing its people.

  7. John Cassidy

    “I am, I am [going to pay]. I think we have to pay for water”
    Does she not realise that she has already being paying for her water with her income tax?
    She must be incredibly stupid.
    Why don’t the govt stop beating around the bush and just say that they are introducing a bank debt tax? That would prove as popular as a water tax.

    1. PhilJo

      What, honesty in additional taxes (not taxes really we swear) naming.
      Following on from the universal social charge for which we get the best social protection in the universe?

  8. balls

    I hate when they try to appeal to us who are tired of the situation. By saying she’s tired, she thinks we’ll go “Yeah, I’m tired too, so I’ll agree with whatever she follows that with because I’ve basically stopped listening now and it’s easier”.

  9. bobsyerauntie

    She’s the epitome of the upper middle class in Ireland- they have no idea what it’s like to live on welfare, to be homeless, or to cope under mountains of debt, to live from hand to mouth, to struggle on minimum wage, to be denied educational opportunities, to beg a landlord to take rent allowance for a hovel, etc etc.

    Completely out of touch… I have no idea why Vincent has her on his show. She is appalling.

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