Favoured treatment for Ukrainians
"I finally received confirmation that the 1300 Ukranian registered cars in the country do not need to pay or have motor tax, an NCT is also not necessary"
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English football legend Matt Le Tissier hits the nail on the head. 🔥
"The people that we've put in power—I think they are under orders to actually destroy this country."
"If they destroy the country enough, there'll be people begging for help from their government. And I think that's probably when you'll see initiatives like the central bank digital currencies being thrust upon the population as the way to save us."
"Because people won't accept those kinds of things under normal circumstances. Yet in times of emergencies, people will accept all sorts of nonsense. As we saw in 2020."
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DESANTIS: “You should own your home free and clear!
To say someone who’s been in their home 35 years has to keep ponying up money..
You don’t own your home if that’s the case!
If I go to Best Buy and buy a TV I pay sales tax but don’t keep paying taxes on it year after year!”
"NCT management has been flying regularly to Manila to recruit batches of 8 to 10 staff"
Senator Sharon Keogan speaks about the Spanish company importing Filipinos for the NCT
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.”
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