SarahCasey

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@Independent_ie Poor example for our kids @GaryGannonTD with the “I took drugs and turned out fine” narrative.

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@griptmedia @Ben_Scallan Ironic that @RuthCoppingerSP behaves like @realDonaldTrump 😂

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@rtenews Taxed on what you earn, taxed on what you buy, taxed on what you own. And then what does it get spent on?! Arguably the government is already taxing us on hotels by using our tax returns to fund IPAS rooms reducing supply and therefore increasing rates. Thoughts @Paschald ?

[Independent Ireland @independent_ire]

TD Ken O'Flynn - Govt confirms it paid €1.6 Million for cars for Ukrainian Community: “utterly astonishing, financially indefensible, and the tip of a very expensive iceberg”

‘Essentially a gold-plated chauffeur service while Irish voluntary organisations are left begging.”

Costs of €1.6 million incurred by the Department of Housing; Local Government and Heritage for the purchase of cars for use by members of the Ukrainian community have been described as “utterly astonishing, financially indefensible, and the tip of a very expensive iceberg” by Independent Ireland Chairman and TD for Cork North Central Ken O’Flynn.

Deputy O’Flynn was speaking after Minister James Browne confirmed to him in a parliamentary reply that his department funded the purchase of 8 cars under the Community Car Initiative (CCI) to support the Offer a Home scheme, which sought the use of unoccupied homes to accommodate Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection from Ukraine:

“The explosive information I have received today will further consolidate the perception that an egregious level of double standards was applied with respect to the provision of supports for Ukrainians and the wall of indifference and tightening of the purse strings that many other communities or organisations met when it came to seeking funding for travel connectivity.”

“I want to emphasise that the €1.6 million in costs in no way reflects the full extent of the financial burden placed upon the taxpayer as it does not include the employment costs for the drivers who were contracted to deliver the service. I and my team are currently collating that data and we will make it available when that work is done.”

“This will infuriate people, especially here in Cork when see our own Cancer Connects, that has a network of approximately 430 voluntary drivers covering the entirety of Cork County basically having to beg and borrow for an increase in multi-annual funding of €50,000. Yet here we have a scheme whereby the Department handed over an average of €200k per car for what was essentially a personalised chauffeured transport scheme for the Ukrainian community, irrespective of how the minister wants to characterise.”

“There will certainly be more to follow on this story as I am absolutely determined to expose and highlight the hidden costs that the Irish taxpayers have had to carry for gold-plated schemes that exhibit this level of financial favouritism.”

@ciaranmullooly @MichaelFitzTD @MichaelC_IND_TD @MichaelC_IND_TD

[Peadar Tóibín TD @Toibin1]

Aontú has found out that the OPW is spending €3.25m a year to run VIP guesthouse used just 17 times since 2018.

Thats over €1m of your money per delegation!!

The government is incinerating your money.

https://t.co/WQq0FLMnBt

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@MeganEveTV Me🙋‍♀️

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@punishablepress What a vile human, to attack a mother with her kids. His day of reckoning will come…

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@AnnaKelly47 @kieghannangle @AllisonSchuste @PressSec Stunning

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@MichealMartinTD @POTUS Well done @MichealMartinTD and all the diplomats behind the scenes. A proud day to be Irish.

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@EOBroin Thank god SF are not in power, very well managed by the Taoiseach. One wrong word could have resulted in serious implications for our economy. We all know you don’t argue with an idiot. Save your principles for another debate.

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@PeterMurtagh Agreed. Fair play to him and all the behind the scenes work by Irish diplomats. It didn’t go smoothly by chance, months of work and soft influence.

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@DarraghOBrienTD @IrelandCGMiami @BiltmoreHotel Best of luck, an important mission for all our ministers in the US over the coming days.

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@OCallaghanJim It’s start but with ~20k international protection applicants coming into the country a year you’ll need several flights every week like this to deal with the volume of rejections. i.e 400 applicants a week where at least 20% should be declined!

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@newpeteV1 @EOBroin Eoin wants to have his cake and eat it. Allow immigrants in from all over the world and expect homeless numbers to decrease! Impossible to have it both ways, hard decisions required.

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@Nick_Delehanty 20 BN! Give the overall government budget is 120 BN that’s approx 17% of our budget. Absolutely ludicrous, imagine the infrastructure you’d build with that money…

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@David_aherne88 @horsebucks33 @GardaTraffic How often are the speed guns calibrated? If not regularly maintained surely they can draft outside the +/-2 range. All for the good work of Gardai, just curious 🧐

[Daragh Cassidy @DaraghCassidy]

Some fairly awful tourism figures from @CSOIreland this morning.

⬇️Tourist numbers down 25% in January versus last year.

⬇️Spend down almost 28%.

[Daragh Cassidy @DaraghCassidy]

An accused rapist facing deportation from Italy comes to Ireland to illegally claim asylum & is welcomed with open arms and allowed go clubbing. And gets stabbed by another guy who’s out on bail for a serious offence. So many failures of our justice dep. combined in one incident.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

OMG, I haven't laughed this hard in a long time 🤣🤣🤣🤣👇

[SarahCasey @ImSarahCasey]

@sinnfeinireland @EOBroin SF foundation level maths yet again! FF+FG = 49% of projected seats. SF+SD+LAB= 35% of projected seats. Admit defeat and move on.