Yearly Archives: 2014

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Senator David Norris brought up the subject of prostitution, Ruhama and the Turn Off The Red Light campaign in the chamber this morning.

He said:

I also want to take up this business of Ruhama, and Stop the Red Light (sic). It’s time this type of nonsense was really, honestly addressed….Despite the puppeteering going on by this middle class collection of ex-nuns and radical feminists…98% of the women for whom the voices are being articulated by the self-appointed group are opposed completely to it….the police are against it, by and large. Everybody realises that it’s going to be inoperable, ineffective and going to lead to serious risks to the lives and welfare of women and men involved in the sex business. So yes, prostitution is messy, it’s regrettable but it’s a fact of life.

Then Senator Aideen Hayden (Labour) interjects and it all kicks off.

We seem to have an issue with prostitution and no one’s buying it.

Earlier: Putting It Out To Tinder

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Joan Burton and Leo Varadkar

Joe Higgins TD: “There is communication, and people understand that a family of four, including an 18 and a 19 year old and two adults, will pay just under €500. Similarly, a family of five will pay under €600, and when metering comes in that will rise inexorably.”

Joan Burton: “My answer to the suggestions and scaremongering the Deputy has just now undertaken in relation to the level of charges…”

 Higgins: “What scaremongering?”

Burton: “…is that I am happy to say it is my view that the charge for the type of household the Deputy described will be below €200.”

Tánaiste Joan Burton in the Dáil yesterday

Meanwhile  on RTÉ News At One earlier

Richard Crowley: “Joan Burton seems to think that €200, or less than €200, would be a fair figure, a modest figure, for a family of four, including two young adults – would you agree?”

Leo Varadkar: “Well I think the key thing is that we move to a very simple principle, is that you pay for what you use. Just as is the case…”

Crowley: “How much do you pay for what you use. That’s the issue and what would the average bill be, that’s the question?”

Varadkar: “Well we know what the average bill will be, it’ll be around €250 for the average household.”

Crowley: “And what’s the average household? Is that two young adults and two, a family of four, including two young adults?”

Varadkar: “No, that wouldn’t be an average household, by any means, but that’s the kind of thing we’re trying to put together now so that it is very clear for people, for all different types of households, even those multi-adult houses which actually are a minority but they deserve clarity too.”

RTE News At One

Dáil transcript via Oireachtas.ie

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Kidding.

The media part of the Web Summit in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin today.

From top: Eric Lassard, 11, from Clondalkin, Dublin of ericlassard.com; founder and CEO of Storyful, Mark ‘Moneybags’ Little; Mark with Europe Editor of TIME, Matt McAllester and head of news production at Vice News, Kevin Sutcliffe; Contributing Editor of Wired, Spencer Reiss; and BBC presenter and producer Anne-Marie Tomchak.

They may have lost our invite.

Earlier: The Signal of Shame

Photocall Ireland

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Yikes.

Ah here.

Via Gavan Reilly

Previously: They Still Think It’s Only About The Money