Brenda Power

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251 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3d ago

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The Pat Kenny Show · Pat's Sunday Papers Review August 9th · 9 Aug 2026 podcast

You're talking about families running takeaways, these probably probably non-national families working every argument.

You're talking about people selling their homemade brown bread at electric picnic without charging fat.

Is that really are these the people we should be going after?

And you know, when you think about it, in a country where none of these people have the slightest hope of ever being able to buy a house, where does

Playing by the rules actually get ya.

And bear in mind, Pat, just last month it was announced that Transport for Ireland, or you and me, had written off fifty million euro that was squandered on an IT system that didn't work.

So on the one hand they're persecuting and I mean, of course the revenue does its job and and they they clearly do their job very well.

And you know, you can't argue with that on one level.

But on the other hand, would you trust

I don't have a choice though, do I?

Yeah well, apparently some people do and they're exercising it.

I think Alicia Harlan's describing going to her garage and I think we've all had this experience and she said the the the uh garage man said you want to be paid in cash and she said, No, sir, I refuse.

I absolutely insist that you uh you charge me Var.

She said, No, I didn't, I paid in cash and we've all done that.

Um I suppose that kind of feeds impact to the to the story on the front page of the business post about you know what the efforts that are being made to address

I mean when you think about it about look at that for instance, five hundred and sixty three million on homeless accommodation.

How many houses would that build?

I know that's a very simplistic metric, but I mean it's hard to dispute Owen Owen O'Brien, the Sinn Fein spokesman, is saying that the the money being spent was not being strategically deployed.

And I think he's right about that.

He said despite the volume of state investment, much of it is being spent on the wrong things.

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