Niall Boylan
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Yeah, Seamus, you were looking at this too.
Nile Borland, you're keen to come in there.
I don't think this is a right-wing, left-wing issue.
I mean, if you look at that same poll, 67% of the population of the country, according to that poll, said they disapprove of the government.
And if you look at the top four things that people talk about, it's the same four all the time.
You've got cost of living, housing, immigration and health care.
Those have been the top four for the last probably three years.
Obviously, cost of living has gone up a little bit now because of what's happening in Iran.
So people are concerned about how we're spending money in this country.
That's why 80% of people believe that we shouldn't just be giving away money.
Pat O'Tobean said during the week that Irish citizens shouldn't be not getting something that other nationalities are getting.
And I think, you know, at the start of this, of course, everybody was sympathetic.
Yeah, but we keep everything for Irish citizens.
Yeah, but this is the point that Pat O'Tobean made, that there shouldn't be availability or supports for people that Irish citizens are not getting.
And I'll just break that down in a second.
But I think, you know, everybody was sympathetic at the start.
Of course, you know, we wanted to help people as much as we possibly could.
And why wouldn't we want to do something like that?