Simon Harris, who appointed himself Minister for Finance earlier this year, has never had a job of any kind outside of politics.
He has zero academic qualifications beyond his leaving cert. He started two different college courses but dropped out twice.
He has never been self-employed. Never started a business, never created a job, never had to worry about covering payroll or paid a penny in VAT.
Now he runs our economy.
But how does that happen?
Simon is in the job he's in because he's exceptionally good at playing politics.
He managed to climb the Fine Gael ladder all the way to the top.
But it would leave you wondering - is there any other job in which a person's complete lack of any relevant education, skills, training, work experience or track record would be set aside?
Simon was democratically elected so he is entitled to be where he is. But is Ireland really best served by giving top jobs to people with no knowledge of what they're doing?
The upcoming budget will be a great example.
Simon will use our money to buy votes for those from traditional Fine Gael income brackets - and absolutely stick the boot into those who come from areas, social backgrounds and age brackets from whom he has nothing to gain.
Decisions won't be made on the basis of what's best for the people of Ireland. We've a pure politician in charge. Simon will make decisions on the basis of what's best for Simon.
We have an unfinished children's hospital which is going to cost us 2.2 Billion. Making it one of the most expensive buildings in Europe.
The main contractor has made over 200,000 defective mistakes throughout construction.
The completion date has been pushed back dozens of times and there is now no concrete date in place.
JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL, MINISTER FOR HEALTH:
"I know what we should do, make alcohol more expensive."
#HowIrelandWorks
The health system is FF/G and their friends on the left’s best justification for radical demographic change.
And it is a Ponzi scheme.
The more people you let in - 1.2 million in just over two decades - the more doctors and nurses you desperately need.
Acting in desperation, and unwilling to offer the security and conditions needed to attract the best and retain the Irish, you lower your standards and recruit from countries where standards are inconsistent and credential fraud is routine.
So everyone using the Irish health system becomes less safe.
When they say, “Shur, the health system would collapse without immigrants,” they mean that without recruiting anyone claiming to be a doctor or nurse from non-EU nations - no matter whether their credentials are really checkable, and regardless of the standard of training they may have had - they cannot get through the mass of cases created by adding 1.2 million people to an already strained health system.
They also mean that a certain amount of malpractice, pain, suffering, unnecessary death through incompetence, and the odd sexual-abuse case is acceptable. They have spun playing Russian roulette with non-EU healthcare workers, in order to service mass immigration, into a positive. “The health services would collapse without immigration” is simply the new “in the national interest” of Celtic Tiger-era excess: the mindless call-and-response between FF/G and the public that has been going on for decades.
And not only is the dangerous decline in standards of healthcare in Ireland acceptable; it is the establishment’s best case for open borders.
But anyone who has read Vandalising Ireland, or has been following @CNolanOffaly, will know that since the beginning of the mass-immigration experiment, successive justice ministers - chief among them Helen McEntee - ignored and bypassed background checks on people entering the country, particularly non-EU arrivals. Ireland is a soft touch, and the world knows it. Nobody should now be surprised to hear that minimal (if even that) vetting of medical staff from high-fraud-risk nations has occurred under FF/G, and that that negligence is being abused.
FF/G are the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants uniparty. The “shur, it’ll be grand” uniparty. They do not give a damn about any Irish person. More than that, it has been decades since they even pretended to. They have operated with reckless abandon for decades, and every time they have been caught with their pants down they have faced no consequences. So now they treat the public with contempt, knowing they are untouchable.
There is no low to which FF/G will not stoop. Too many people still have not internalised that fact. Maybe as more grannies die from incompetence in routine surgeries, or because their non-English-speaking doctor or nurse administered the wrong medication, people will wake up. The uniparty will bank on the public accepting a certain amount of death and carnage, just as they accepted the murder of Ashling Murphy, Jamey Carney, and countless other victims of their open-border migration policies.
They are banking on the Irish being too demoralised, distracted, or self-interested to do something - as usual.
From "nine identical brothers", adults claiming to be kids, decades-long double identities worth over €145,000 in welfare, fake claims of being ‘gay’ and more: Why are asylum claims so easy for some to bluff through?
https://t.co/LpZI58g6SE
@NewstalkFM Share public transportation with the 3rd world criminals that are making Ireland a country worth fleeing from? That’s a brilliant incentive to get them to stay. 🙄
Following Dublin City Council's release of social housing data broken down by nationality, a Fianna Fáil councillor has said other local authorities should follow suit.
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Almost seven in ten young adults are considering moving abroad for a better quality of life, according to new research from the National Youth Council of Ireland https://t.co/eQ5tDPVcwP
Day 8:
Total silence from mainstream media & politicians on the latest Dublin social-housing statistics.
Did you know:
There are 61,719 households on Ireland's social housing list.
In 2019, 508 households were recorded as "refugees"
In 2025 this number sky-rocketed to 3,193.
Thats an increase of 529%!!
But the “refugee” category doesn’t tell the full story either...
If it did then the 1,320 Somali applicants on DCCs list would be 41% of that national "refugee" figure.
This couldn't be right.
There are many ways to get onto the housing list. Nationality and immigration status measure different things.
In order for Ireland's high welfare State to function with high trust, the public must have full transparency of all data.
Its the job of our media & opposition to demand this.
The co-ordination to totally ignore these latest figures is jaw-dropping.