Lorna Fitzpatrick
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177 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Aug
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Yeah, well uh look I think the the detail has really been captured in terms of the why and and absolutely I can understand the frustration in terms of the the the government jet and that this is the first trip that it's taken and all the rest, but I do think, you know, um the challenges that could have been faced in terms of people trying to intercept or any of those things are are real.
And so we shouldn't um I suppose let uh cut her nose off despite our face in terms of that with this argument, I suppose.
Yeah, so this is a really interesting piece by Wayne O'Connor and Ashling Maloney.
Um basically focusing in on rogue builders, beauticians, vape shops and takeaways.
Um and uh the their work of revenue has seen um more than ten point five million collected in the last eighteen months in relation to um um that that kind of black market activity in those sectors.
Um it it do you know I think it
It it uh it tells us that there is obviously a market there.
It's great to see that there is an increase in that.
They speak about how they've, you know, been an increase in training and so on for uh enforcement officers.
There's been an increase in um in uh investigations and and so on, um which is all very much welcome.
And I think, you know, and as part of our broader conversation, which I'm sure we'll touch on in terms of budget and and trying to make sure that we have as much resources in the state as we possibly can.
To invest into public services and and things that we need, I think that's absolutely worthwhile.
What did jump out at me though, and and I know there's a there's an inherent contradiction in what I'm about to say here, is that you know there's uh in in many people's minds, I think there's probably a difference between um, you know, the sixteen year old who might be going into a building site and giving a hand on a Saturday in terms of cleaning up or doing something along those lines um and and somebody who's going into
the likes of uh massive festivals with um you know uh flashy buy me signs or or uh takeaway vans and all of those kind of things.
Um and when you're really marketing a product and service and selling that to the public and not paying tax on it versus maybe some young lad being given a couple of quid for for helping out on a building site at the weekend, both are wrong.
Both are illegal and and and absolutely recognise that.
But um I I think there's probably a little bit of a difference there between the two.
Brandon O'Connor on RTE Radio 1.
Abs yes, right, there is.
But but I suppose there's an element of the social contract here and that's the wider discussion really, isn't there, in terms of um like we have an ageing population and and all of that, um and we need to be able to uh try and and Dan will speak to this much better than I, but in terms of how we can afford that into the to the years ahead, that's gonna be our biggest challenge.
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