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Fergus Finlay

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
118 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

There's 15 process steps before we can apply for planning permission and another 15 before a crane goes on site.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

So that's all over the country and people are just utterly frustrated about it at a much smaller level.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

The Taoiseach made an apology, very heartfelt, very profound apology saying,

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

to survivors of institutional abuse in the Dรกil.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

And four of the survivors who have been on hunger strike were sitting there watching them.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

Ask them today, what's happened since?

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

The answer is nothing.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

They're still working through processes to try and put a package together.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

And they will keep doing that forever.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

Yeah, and that's been fairly visible too, hasn't it?

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

And it's part of the dichotomy.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

I think it's part of the resentment.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

There are people really, really struggling to pay household bills to get by.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

In rural Ireland and in urban Ireland, the people are really struggling.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

And this is, you know, let's say, let's take the contractors, for example, the tractor drivers.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

This is the time when they...

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

in seasonal terms, make their income.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

And they're being screwed to the wall by fuel prices.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

So I understand that anger.

Brendan O'Connor
The Newspaper Panel

And I think when you see the number of people who are wealthy and wealthier and wealthiest getting bigger and bigger and bigger, that fuels even more resentment.