Míde Nic Fhionnlaoich

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Brendan O'Connor · The Newspaper Panel · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

And that cuts across the entire political divide.

Well, obviously, I'd like to be and I'd be working hard to be in Ali here.

But I think that appetite is certainly there.

And I think we are speaking to that appetite all across this country.

I think this story really uncovers a problem with our kind of policy towards business and towards enterprise at large in Ireland, in that it doesn't matter what the business does and where it ends up, as long as it's bringing in tax and X number of jobs, it's fine.

And we will ignore it until it becomes a problem we can't ignore.

And then it's a big disaster for the people whose jobs are involved in that industry.

And like when it comes to on it, it's become very clear that it does matter what they do and who they sell to and who owns on it ultimately.

I think there has been, like, it's very unclear without the report, but I think it's very clear that we cannot be selling aluminum to Russia that is then being used in Russian arms factories to build the weapons that are raining down on innocent Ukrainians.

Yeah.

Well, I think there have been plans floated around and

proposals float around state acquisition I think in the business post they said that it seemed like a credible way to move forward.

It'll be interesting to see what the government is willing to do on that because so far it's been a very flat no.

But I think this is the reality when you don't look too closely at these things until it becomes a crisis that maybe if we'd started planning on this three years ago or four years ago when Russia invaded in the first place when sanctions were imposed

that this may become a problem, that this may become an issue, and we need to plan for the people whose jobs are reliant on it instead of just burying our heads in the sand.

Yeah, and I find it interesting.

I read the bill that was put before the Dáil on Tuesday.

Yes, and a citizens' assembly.

And I also read the debate around it.

And what I found really interesting is that this bill just put forward that, and we backed it as a party of...

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