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Rachel Russell

πŸ‘€ Speaker
60 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

Who is saying that this is okay to do this?

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

They need to be gone.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

They need to be fired.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

It's ridiculous.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

When you have kids years and years on waiting lists,

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

They can't get hospital appointments, can't get appointments with therapists, can't get any help, can't even get school places.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

And then they're all right with throwing all this money away.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

And then they cry, we don't have the money, you know, we don't have this, we don't have that.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

Because, do you know what, the absolute millions that would be saved if the public expenditure had done their jobs properly.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

If they'd done their jobs properly.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

And I'm going to be honest, the likes of councils blown, there was a council blew 50,000 euros

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

an iron kind of I don't know what it is an iron fixture in the middle of a roundabout and I'm like right that's ridiculous put trees in it can look just as nice as trees it doesn't need these big iron these fancy things we're in a cost of living crisis here do you know what I mean it's a public art installation is it it's like a sculpture something like that I'll be honest I don't know it doesn't look like art CiarΓ‘n I don't mean that bad

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

It literally just looks like a clump of iron bars.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

But it's not even the point.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

It's more so that it's being thrown on ridiculous things when you don't need to be doing that.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

This money doesn't need to be going there when there's other services.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

No, traffic management, 100%.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

No, listen, CiarΓ‘n, traffic management, 1,000%.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

This has nothing to do with the traffic management.

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"I'm absolutely appalled but not surprised"

And in actual fact...