Duncan Smith
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185 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Aug
Duncan Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So this is the moment and this is the time where we are going to have to see this balance.
And the pressure is going to be on this minister and subsequent ministers to, I don't like the phrase level up because it has British Tory party connotations, but to improve and resource our public health system to a level where if you grow up in this country, you naturally will go down to your community for minor care, for clinics, and you don't have to go into an overpacked, bomb-out hospital for everything.
So, you know, what's the problem?
The problem is that we're not investing wisely enough.
This, like...
borrowed to save strategy is absolutely bizarre.
No other modern state does it.
And this government in the last budget decided to give a tax cut to the hospitality sector, which was
are and are promising more tax cuts.
Protecting jobs, according to the government?
Well, we'll see how many jobs it protects.
We'll see if it has any increase in reducing the price at the counter.
What it will do is it will help massive fast food chains and their profitability.
We know that for a fact that that's what it will help.
But we're literally, we've spent 10 minutes discussing resourcing our health services.
We've housing, we've education.
We're not going to be able to build any new school buildings because the Department of Education is in such financial hock.
Yet, what is this new Minister for Finance promising?
The Taoiseach is promising more tax cuts.
So it doesn't add up.
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