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This is Brendan O'Connor on RTE Radio 1.
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Good morning. You're very welcome to the show. Let's have a look at the front pages first before we meet our panel. The front of the Sunday Independent is a bit like, you know, there's letters to the Irish Times. I heard a cuckoo. Is this a record? So we're having the budget discussion, it seems. I think possibly because Fianna Fáil and Fianna Gael are trying to, like, you know, get in early with the... With the good bits. So Conal Thomas has tax cuts and targeted measures for older people on the cards, the Taoiseach says. New cost of disability payment. The Taoiseach is talking about alleviating pressures on family. Another instrument is social protection, various payments, people on low income, pensioners.
childcare would be in the frame as well in terms of what we can do. Then Social Protection Minister Derek Leary is here as well. People living alone, particularly in their older years on fixed incomes, we need to support them more. And he does make that point that I know a lot of... older people make, which is that if you have two people in a household and then one of them dies, you're dealing with largely the same fixed costs, but in a lot of cases, like their fixed income is kind of more or less halved.
What are the highlights from the Sunday newspapers?
So anyway, that's the budget. We'll talk about that for the next six months. The Sunday Times is leading with Ukrainians will get Irish payoff on return home. So they're saying they'll receive payments from the Irish government only once they return to their home country. They also, John Mooney has an intriguing story as their off lead. Verona Murphy, the Keown Corla, was given a rare national security briefing after Garda Intelligence uncovered a sophisticated Chinese influence operation attempting to target her last year. And the Business Post is leading with that a prominent PTSB shareholder and former board member has mounted an urgent high court challenge in a bid to block the bank's sale to Australian lender Balwag amid ongoing anger among investors at the transaction price.
And right from the beginning, people have been saying that some people think that we're giving it away too cheaply. The... Mail is leading with, remember, Evan Fitzgerald, the Carlos Shopping Centre shooter, as they call him here. They have extensive coverage. of a related court case inside. But they're saying undercover Gardaí had a face-to-face meeting with Carlo Shopping Centre shooter Evan Fitzgerald at the Dublin pub nine days before they arrested him and two friends in a covert sting operation. And the Sunday World has a story about Michael Mooney who was jailed this week for a campaign of harassment against his ex-partner.
How is the budget impacting Irish citizens?
Now, our panel this morning, Brenda Power is a columnist at the Irish Daily Mail and at the Sunday Independent. Moira Trassen-Nichialig is a medical doctor and columnist. Daniel Murray is policy editor at the Business Post. And Ben Tonra is a professor of international relations at UCD. And he is also a non-paid director at the Irish Security and Defence Association. Just FYI. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, Brendan. Good morning. So, Brenda, we hear there on the news, it seems as we speak, people are being taken off the Hantavirus boat. Why did you pick as a piece on this Caroline Graham in the mail on Sunday revealed the real ground zero where outbreak that's already claimed 32 lives began?
Well, this is it. I mean, obviously, the question is, where does this come from and how contagious could it potentially be? The original suggestion was that they picked it up, these two, I think, Danish birdwatchers, picked it up at a site in Argentina. At a dump? At a dump, yeah, at a dump. Where apparently birdwatchers go to dumps. Where birds would be. But anyway, the mail is revealing that actually it's much more likely that they accessed it in Patagonia, because the particular breed of rat or strain of rat that carries and transmits this virus is not actually at that dump in Argentina.
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