even barnier got the gaeilge right
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Itâs terrible to see a lad trying to use a few cupla focail cut down by the Gaeilgoir snobs
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As if anyone in Carrick on Suir speaks Irish in any case, the cunts barely speak English
They are as bad as the French
the scoil lorcain whatsapp was buzzing all day
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That was utterly cringe by Barnier
Parent from Scoil Lorcain looking down their nose at others - barely plausible 
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Ah jaysus 
15 special advisors for the 3 amigos and teneo on board as additional support and this is the best he can come up with?
My pup went down 50 yesterday so heâs an absolute fraud
Theyâve over 40 advisors as is and not one of them thought to say that getting 10 new special advisors on the AP scale on the same day as youre cutting PUP was a bad idea.
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Maybe our Ministers would not need all these special advisors if we had a decent class of civil servant who would work away and had a bit of brains.
This weekâs meeting is underway.
Only the warm up at the moment. Give them time
Itâs grand they are only fucking over the Dubs at the minute and FF have no one elected up there
The fact a cunt like him knows whatâs going on in there tells all thatâs wrong with politics here and the incestuous relationship between the media and FFG
Fine Gael is full of very ordinary people
Sir, â I wish to refer to Una Mullallyâs article âOnly someone who wouldnât miss âŹ50 a week would cut the PUPâ (Opinion & Analysis, September 25th).
I really would like to live on Una Mullallyâs planet where everyone and everything is reduced to a white hat or black hat, goodies and baddies and simple answers. Of course, in her view, Fine Gael are the baddies. Ideologically cruel, our entire focus is hell-bent on targeting the âwelfare classâ (her words, I donât know any Irish politician who uses such an insulting phrase). Of course, on Planet Earth, the reality is different.
I should know, as I was the Fine Gael minister who introduced the pandemic unemployment payment (PUP) with colleagues Leo Varadkar and Paschal Donohoe. The PUP was created, in a matter of days, as a direct response to the speed with which the pandemic struck our economy.
Hundreds of thousands of people had their jobs literally closed down overnight in order to protect the public health of all our citizens.
My priority was to respond immediately â and with impact â to ensure that every familyâs needs would be met.
Was it perfect? No. However, from my interaction with hundreds of people who contacted me directly to help them access the payment, I know it was seen as a lifeline and I genuinely believe it contributed greatly to the social cohesion we enjoyed as a country during the initial stages of Covid-19. It was always an emergency measure, and we always said that, when we had a breathing space, we would recalibrate it to ensure our resources were better targeted to those most in need.
Of course, Una Mullally sees any such tweaking of resources as an opportunity to accuse Fine Gael of abandoning the less well-off â as if itâs in our DNA. In reality, over the past five years, Fine Gael has increased the budget of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection from from âŹ19.6 billion to âŹ21.2 billion, directly supporting the most vulnerable.
On my watch, I managed to restore the Christmas bonus to 100 per cent; increased the back-to-school allowance by 50 cent; introduced a hot meals programme for schools to ensure less fortunate children get a hot meal daily; introduced paid parental leave; introduced jobseeker benefit for the self-employed; reintroduced treatment benefits; banned zero-hour contracts; and increased the minimum wage to what is now the second-highest level in Europe.
Iâm sure these facts wonât dim your columnistâs obsession with painting Fine Gael as the party of privilege and private schooling. As someone who was born in Dublinâs northside, grew up in a council house and never went to a boarding school, I take particular offence at such a cartoon portrayal. I can tell you that the Fine Gael party is full of very ordinary people (despite her contention to the contrary). What unites us is not our school ties or postcodes but our passion for everybody in Ireland to get the help and support to better their lives.
In her column, Una Mullally sought to paint Fine Gael as Irelandâs Conservative Party. When I look at the former newspaper columnist across the water struggling to lead his country through a pandemic and Brexit, I am reminded that the simplistic worldview and polemical skills of some commentators donât always translate into an understanding of the complexities of governing. Your columnist may have more in common with some Tories than she realises. â Yours, etc,
Senator
REGINA DOHERTY,
Fine Gael,
Leinster House,
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Una will be choking on her smashed avocado after that. Luckily for Doherty sheâs a woman and wonât be accused of mansplaining like Thomas Byrne.
Can someone pick Una up off the floor please?
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