🚨 Richard Bruton: "I only act on the permission of the Dáil – if the Dáil fails to support what’s being done, the Dáil has its prerogatives which you know"
In other words: You can block the NBP if you want, you just have to remove me from my job
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) May 9, 2019
This afternoon.
Dáil Eireann.
Social Democrat co-leader Catherine Murphy (top), Sinn Féin’s Brian Stanley (centre) and others are questioning Minister for Communications Richard Bruton on the National Broadband plan.
Watch proceedings live here
Last night: ‘The Procurement Process Should Be Cancelled’
Meanwhile…
A very interesting comment from the judge in this case … and very sad to see how very ill people like this are being abandoned: https://t.co/oVn0G76t6B pic.twitter.com/neRpiZaxPy
— Ken Foxe (@kenfoxe) May 9, 2019
Judge Keys said the State is about to sign a €3 billion contract for broadband “and we don’t have enough money for this man who needs medical treatment.
“We have to get our priorities right … this man should not be in prison and he is there because of the failure of the State to provide alternative facilities and resources and as a result he has to continue to be in a limbo situation.
“This is very, very wrong.”
And there you have it folks- one simple scenario, replicated thousands of times over.
If there can be an upside to all of this, it’s that the craven clientelism, moral bankruptcy and utter ineptitude of this Government is laid bare. All of this in the run up to the Local and European elections.
It’s in our hands. Vote for those who best reflect the Ireland you want. Let’s make a start, at least.
It’s your vote; your choice.
Use it wisely.
Well they are going ahead with spending 3 billion of our taxes and handing the product over to a private company
One better than Irish water
That’s six grand per man woman and child
Guess what
After they take the gift of this nation they own it and when someone owns something they can sell it and reel the profits
If for some reason the 3 billion is not forthcoming
They can sue the state ie taxpayer for that money
Well done paschal
Your fiscal space between your ears is just that a big void of nothing
I wouldnt trust any of them with 2 dixie cups and a length of string.
And Mama Fitzgerald strutting her election stuff. https://mobile.twitter.com/MEneaney/status/1125540841802600449
Well they have to let them own it or else how could they sell it back to us ?