Derval MacDonald

But he added, I think we maybe need to be a little bit more blunt in urban Ireland and say, actually, that's not the case.

We're the ones paying all the bills.

You're the ones in receipt of a lot of subsidies and a lot of tax benefits that other people don't.

Aisling Meehan, I think you picked out a piece by Mary Regan in the Sunday Independent this morning where Noel Thomas, who's obviously a Galway West by-election candidate, has described these remarks as shameful.

Hoteliers were very happy with it in the initial stages of the crisis, particularly during COVID-19.

Ciara, you're nodding your head in agreement, Ciara Murphy.

The vast majority of our food is exported.

Derek Mooney, you know, one of the things we sort of congratulate ourselves as a society in Ireland is that after the global financial crisis and Brexit, COVID, after that, we didn't succumb to an intergenerational, you know,

warfare you know we tried not to blame each other young old this urban rural divide or this you know is an attempt to seek division or do we not understand each other

But McCliver, he wasn't the only person, you know, who sort of tapped into that.

I think what you described was a bit of pushback.

You know, John Fitzgerald, the economist you know, was out earlier this week framing the protests in a different light as well, saying, look, I mean, it's not just urban and rural necessarily.

This is a business community.

Or even more off the table, Aisling?

What Aisín says is interesting when she says it's a short-term measure.

I think Shane Coleman, amongst others, was kind of making the point that no government

can insulate its population entirely.

So what would happen if it goes to 150 a barrel or in the case of some analysis saying 200 a barrel?

Where do we go to from here?

It's that disconnect.