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Dennis Leonard

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
229 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

When you get older, when you get infirm, if you have a disability, I've talked to people in my area whose eyesight is going, they can't drive anymore.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

They get free travel at 66, what are they meant to get on?

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

You know what I mean?

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

It's not right.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

And rural people in particular are disadvantaged here.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

The Western Rail Corridor, Mullingard, all these are delayed far beyond the time they should have been put in.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

I know.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

And I mean, all this has been going on for weeks about RTE presenters and things like that.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

I mean, they are trying to get the House in order and everything else is

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

When is Irish Rail going to get their house in order with, you know, proper public transport that's available to people?

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

And also the sheer waste of public money that has gone on for so many years in so many different agencies.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

There has to be accountability.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

All the tribunals we had about that years ago, they ended up just with a slap on the wrist.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

There has to be really people being fully held accountable when they do something.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

I know systems can fail and everything else, but there's no system that should allow, that shouldn't allow for forward planning, for proper sustainable planning, for spending every single tax euro in the appropriate way that will put services in people's neighbourhoods and communities.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

Yeah, Karen, I think your previous caller there just started drifting towards what I was on about earlier.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

I think your subject started drifting away from the basic subject, which was about the 50 million loss.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

And you could end up with 20 people on the line complaining about their different railway situations.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

I mean, this is basically about 50 million down the Swanee.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

And my question is, who will be held responsible and how many people will be fired?