This afternoon.
Dáil Eireann.
Proceedings are suspended after a verbal altercation (@4.54) between an irate chairman – Sinn Féin’s Aengus Ó Snodaigh as far as we can tell – and a heckled Carol Nolan TD, of the independent rural group.
He’s an angry elf.
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Fair play Ms Nolan, the heckler(s) will know to keep their mouths shut next time.
Who is the Chair, anyone know?
Aengus Ó Snodaigh by the look of it
Thanks Chuck – such arrogance on his behalf, shouting at someone at the end ” to put on your mask when you talk to me” when he is not wearing his own mask.
Really surprised Angus is so anti farmer for this is the sector that will be planting all those money trees Sinn Fein think provides the money for their policies not forgetting the taxpayer
They remind me of thePFFLOP in the life of Brian
Carol Nolan used to be SF, went independent – due to abortion, IIRC.
Appalling behaviour by Ó Snodaigh though.
It’s apparent that this government is an enemy of farming and all things regarding food
Build data centre after data centre
Not only on land but at sea .We see the betrayal of our food industry
We are an agricultural country first and foremost facing ruin mainly due to CAP ,and do not get me going about our fishing .
Honestly I believe they want family farmers to sell up their lands so corporations can move in and turn them into Forrest’s to fit in with the new emerging carbon trading of credits industry
Recently in the UK Welsh farmers were highlighting the fact corporations were snapping up family farms in view to planting trees that of course they get grants for them the carbon credits sold on to industry so a polluter becomes a eco warrior
As for governments green credentials ?
Why always the focus on the carbon tax, but none on the huge profits of the petroleum companies and the price rises they have imposed over the last year, which dwarf the carbon tax? And if the carbon tax was added to encourage people to find alternatives, then what’s the point of removing it?
Carbon tax penalises people for whom there is no alternative.
Majority of this country have no alternative to the car for transport, or for ICE powered machinery for their work.
What are they to do? Farming in particular is already such a tight margin, and they basically cant pass the cost increase onto the consumer because the alternative is that the EU imports food from Africa at rock bottom prices. Thats where subsidies like CAP came from in the first place. So now farmers and contractors in that sector are left totally out of pocket and with no alternative.
I get the impression the government dont realise how many jobs are actually in agriculture in this country – its not just those who own farms.
Cap Ruined our farming and it also drove farmers having to double their output to make a living and of course we have carbon taxes on the result
The sick thing is our beef is competing the crap European meat and polish beef now a big player in the market
What’s worse I’d these processors processing this imported meat and I bet with a label produce from Ireland with in small print Origen the EU
Like usual government regard rural Ireland as a backwater drain on the powerhouse of the economy
We need actually representation in europe with a set of balls
As for carbon trading
It must be dumped and the polluter pays the fines and cannot weasel out by buying carbon traders
And the tax is put maybe on the post tax profits and shares somehow that the corporation cannot pass it on to a consumer
In reality the carbon tax just penalises people
Look the day I go to Tesco and find food not all in plastic except a few items of veg to be put in plastic bags to take home in a roll of plastic bags .I will take them serious
The Dail is suspended while I go to the stationery cupboard…
He’s made a complete balls of that interaction, tbf, she was completely correct and he’s just let his own party colleague talk all over her.
Ó Snodaigh has form with balaclavas and baseball bats.. she should count herself lucky..