@Rus_Emb_Ireland
For hundreds of years Ireland was oppressed by our nearest neighbours. We have huge empathy for those invaded by neighbours. That's where we are coming from. We have no interest in aggression but take personal interest in those oppressed or invaded by bigger neighbours......
@autcareandshare
And why are you not recognised as a public asset & resource and given some renumeration from public purse?
In a more perfect world it is likely, I suggest. But officialdom rarely thinks outside the box or engages in any form of lateral thinking . It's downside of administration.
@ElecCommIRL
how can the Referendum go ahead if Supreme Court is hearing a case that depends on the very article to be voted on? If the article changes, what is the status of the carer who depends on it? Surely Referendum must be deferred until the Supreme Court has ruled?
Is this why the Government is in such a hurry to see Art 41.2 gone?
Resorting to mis and disinformation when 98% of carers are women?
"An appeal raising issues described by the Supreme Court as of 'systemic importance' to carers is to be heard in April."
#KeepMn
áInTheLaw
I don't agree. Imv it's too young to introduce complex identity when kids are still trying to grasp fractions and percentages. I would prefer only if arises naturally, then let kids ask questions. Am I wrong?
'Transgender issues should be part of primary curriculum,' say Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman
How this man is still the Irish Minister for Children is just mind boggling!!!🤦♂️👇👇👇👇👇
@fiannafailparty
We clearly don't value full time mothers. You have made that clear by withdrawing the economic necessity phrase. So if we vote yes we are in fact reducing choice. Almost all political parties are in favour of this, it seems.
Full time mothers are an abhorrence and embarrassment?
I suspect autonomy of parents to chose whether one of them works in the home will be replaced by having to qualify as a carer and protection REMOVED along with PENSION otherwise. Women (largely) will be less secure and those on disability will be means tested on family income
#VoteYesYes
means that for the first time ever family carers and care will be recognised in our Const. We want to create a more caring and inclusive society and a Yes vote will be a strong call on Gov to support care in practical terms. Catherine Cox
@CarersIreland
@TonightVMTV
@KarlGill
@colettebrowne
@LeoVaradkar
Seems contradictory to say those temporarily laid off due to
#COVID19
must be genuinely seeking work. Needs to be clarified imv. Are they obliged to seek alternative employment or what?
@EnochBurke
He is in prison for defying a court order and ball is in his own court. He can comply with court order and move on with his life or can he? Perhaps he is stuck and you are part of his problem?
Very unfortunate to see this especially at Christmas when families support each other.
I wrote to
@MichealMartinTD
yesterday asking him to call time on uncertainty on
#LC
and repeated my suggestion re
#HybridLC2022
which those I have shared it with love.
@GCraughwell
@NWCI
@greenparty_ie
Could you please publish
#AG
advice prior to announcement of Rs wording? We got the three days after AG advice in a leak. I want to know if Government acted contrary to AG advice. This is important imv
@GCraughwell
@RuthCoppingerSP
@SocialistParty
@RosaSocFem
You have been manipulated and outsmarted sadly by opportunists. The Constitution carries more weight than your demands and you are leaving women vulnerable to the Oireachtas without basis for challenge for change and better outlook for carers. Read the case.
@fiannafailparty
@ThomasByrneTD
Problem is wording does not specify any limits as to what included in durable relationship....and removal of article from Constitution upon which a carer is in Supreme Court over means testing allowance closes door on parent at home & carer alike. Disabled are collateral damage.
@RTENewsPaulC
@MichealMartinTD
@RTENewsAtOne
Those who make the rules rarely experience them as the rest of us do. Lack of freedom to move and engage in wider society is not felt by TDs and Ministers in same way. Variety and change are essential to wellbeing...as well as participation in life outside the home.
@ohanloncmr
Possibly because most vulnerable category need to access shops...perhaps pubs and restaurants and recreational venues are considered optional. I understand masks are required on public transport too. Vaccination rates not as high in schools ..they are retained there too.
@TraceyOMahony81
Do we have a definitive list of these protected characteristics? The reason I ask is that I wonder why some will be getting special protection and others not. Could you please address this
@willieodeaLIVE
@JMcGuinnessTD
Surely this is repugnant to Constitution?
@OCallaghanJim
@MichealLehane
Maybe it's a bit late to be waking up to this now after years of failing to build social housing and instead poaching on private rental market? FG policy distorted market beyond affordability.
@RuthCoppingerSP
Some people don't want Constitution to leave open possibility of
#polygamy
being supported by State. Nor do they want removal of recognition of enormous commitment of women in pregnancy & beyond birth. Instead of inclusion of fathers R conflates parents and carers.
@TodaywithClaire
would you please invite
@ElecCommIRL
on your show to discuss whether Referendum should be rescheduled for after Supreme Court has ruled on case of carer? Also outcome will impact how people vote, Government propose to delete the article backing women in home.
Is this why the Government is in such a hurry to see Art 41.2 gone?
Resorting to mis and disinformation when 98% of carers are women?
"An appeal raising issues described by the Supreme Court as of 'systemic importance' to carers is to be heard in April."
#KeepMn
áInTheLaw
Full time mothers no longer backed by State because of removal of key phrase about economic necessity imv. All political parties seem to support this. Having carried the baby & made herself vulnerable, woman now same as any other carer in eyes of State. Seems to be where we are.
@MichealMartinTD
Birth rate will fall if women don't feel State has their back. When women decide to carry a baby she takes a risk and is vulnerable & phrase about economic necessity is reassuring.
Can you recognise too women sometimes want to be full time mothers? No longer supported by State?
@SarahAMcInerney
We need to take a second look at role and function of
#AG
. What you can get away with legally is not the same thing as what good government should do.
@willieodeaLIVE
@JMcGuinnessTD
Glad to see I'm not only
@fiannafailparty
member availing of freedom of speech in FF. Bill is flawed. Please talk to
@NormaFoleyTD1
re school curriculum too. We need languages in primary schools not transgender education unless arises naturally. Skills not ideology in school.
The shocking thing is we can't rely on government funded agencies to raise questions. It's as if they were handed a baton and instructed to run with it.
@NWCI
why don't you do what is in the public interest and ask questions?
@MichealMartinTD
And to relieve State of commitment to hold mothers in high esteem for role in procreation and protect them if they wish to raise their children themselves. Care only relates to after birth, the role and personal bodily commitment of women recognised up to now has been axed in R.
@ColinMangan_TGC
@RachelMorrogh
@DublinRCC
Sounds more like there was a no government funding threat if they don't plug a yes vote? That's only potential link I see. Surely not? Incredible?
This would be appalling but not a million miles from sentiment expressed earlier regarding NGOs having to explain themselves?
@kevinbakhurst
@rte
Each election is a blank canvass. Candidates have equal opportunities in placing posters for eg regardless of whether we agree with posters or not. But
@rte
un-levels the playing field by giving airtime in debate to some, not others? Previous performance in election is criteria ?
@MichealMartinTD
Great but wording doesn't cut it. Also no recognition for essential role & personal commitment of women. Without
#mothers
personal commitment none of us would be here. Men have essential role absolutely but women greater commitment & invest themselves. Why no longer acknowledged?
@joeliveline
@rteliveline
@RTERadio1
It didn't do what it said on the tin plus
@HHumphreysFG
is fighting a carer in Supreme Court on 11thApril for €85 and right not be means tested on partner's income. Don't agree with
@LeoVaradkar
vision re social protection and role of State. Worried about Green paper on PwD too.
Why is
@LeoVaradkar
not haunted by these children? Somehow there seems to be a disparity between grand speeches that gain applause on foreign soil and the Taoiseach at home ⬇️
Taskforce will not bring change/rehashing of the
#scoliosis
Co design board. No TORs even agreed. In house talk shop.
“Thinking about” our children who suffer is not enough
@LeoVaradkar
. Action is needed.
6 Months later and nothing done
Amazingly it seems to be one of few things political parties agree on. If we vote yes, we will force mothers back to work once women have produced next generation. This is where we are & looks like it will pass easily. State support withdrawn for full time mothers.
@fiannafailparty
We clearly don't value full time mothers. You have made that clear by withdrawing the economic necessity phrase. So if we vote yes we are in fact reducing choice. Almost all political parties are in favour of this, it seems.
Full time mothers are an abhorrence and embarrassment?
@businessposthq
Targeting
@willieodeaLIVE
won't change anything. Hate Speech Bill repugnant to Article 40.1 because goes about it in ham fisted way. Legislation from minority stance for minorities is not way to go. Universal protection against verbal abuse required. Greenpaper on PwD is ableist
@KevDoyle_Indo
@rochagal
Holohan agreed to 'relinquish' his job and he has seemingly been obliged to say in public he won't reclaim it? Does this not stink a bit to anybody at all?
Am I mistaken? When was this initiated and what was context?
@DonnellyStephen
was Taoiseach
@MichealMartinTD
briefed?
@DonnellyStephen
@svuh
@Beaumont_Dublin
@DonnellyStephen
not enough. You are not a civil servant or a data analyst...you are the Minister and leadership and practical on the floor changes are needed. Where did the €350million go? Did
@HSELive
hire more administrators or on line staff who just read from a screen?
@LeoVaradkar
Are we supposed to feel great because a public holiday is called after a woman? This is not working for me
@MichealMartinTD
@women4election
am I on my own here? Is this a poor reflection on me? Should I be grateful or what?
We need to end the caretaker government...those who normalized
#homelessness
now are normalizing
#coronvirusireland
?
Same pattern....we need to cancel
#parades
and protect the most vulnerable.
FG approach is to normalize that most vulnerable will suffer most in a crisis.
This time has arrived. This weekend I think sets a bar the public will want the bull sorted and the games to end . Coronavirus is here and having an effect .Public need political stability to ensure this crisis is being battled & recourses. Also many small business & jobs at risk
@philipnolan1
Sorry to see this in the middle of the night. Took me six to get wordle...and then I read an awful personal attack on a nice guy! Hope tomorrow is good for you and you meet nice people whatever you are doing...goodnight.
@CSOIreland
The first few questions were about gender and very specific and detailed. Why not put the impact of outdoors questions up front? It puzzled me why you are correlating sexual identity and orientation with how outdoors impacts...so I quit answering.
I have asked for review of civil service performance across all Departments.
@SimonHarrisTD
@Paschald
, please. When and how are civil service accountable? Productivity & performance review overdue imv. Accountability is missing and questionable whether there is a mechanism?
@rtenews
@Ocionnaith
Renting in private sector is never secure long term. Government for a decade used private sector instead of building social housing. Rental prices continuously pushed upwards due to scarcity. Retired couples should qualify for social housing if on limited means. LAs must build.
@fiannafailparty
@ThomasByrneTD
In fairness
@ThomasByrneTD
much concern has been expressed about going further than what you meet in everyday life now in Ireland to an unknown unspecified space...and some do NOT want Constitution to allow legislation for polygamy. Please answer these concerns asap.
@janemarybutler
It seems
@NWCI
have limited their vision and tied themselves to party politics. Surely they will have to declare this affiliation? Bizarre imv.
@CathalCroweTD
@PaudieTaylor
I tweeted a suggestion to
@sdublincoco
of placing a 🌈 crossing in
#Lucan
village. Appallingly rude responses from some which proves why we need to use rainbow colours. We actually badly need a crossing in that spot too
@paulreiddublin
@HSELive
Could you please consider running the over sixties booster rollout in tandem with walk in clinics...if the vaccines and staff are there what's the problem.
@paulreiddublin
@HSELive
If schools reopen before child vaccination, is that not a bit like closing the stable door after horse has bolted?
Why not vaccinate families in school buildings including parents with boosters before schools reopen?
@RTENewsPaulC
In that case perhaps a bit of restraint please on those gung ho to reduce women to humans equal to men but with birthing capacity. Eliminating recognised difference is form of hate that goes further than speech imv. Am I only one who can't help thinking this? Am I allowed say it?
@RTE_PrimeTime
@LeoVaradkar
@FineGael
FG policy created a tangled mess in Housing and distorted market with local authorities competing with public for scarce property instead of building social housing.
#HAP
is actually a cause of high rental/ purchase prices beyond what market can bear.
@TodaywithClaire
would you please invite
@ElecCommIRL
on your show to discuss whether Referendum should be rescheduled for after Supreme Court has ruled on case of carer? Also outcome will impact how people vote, Government propose to delete the article backing women in home.
@RuthCoppingerSP
@SocialistParty
@RosaSocFem
You can make demands certainly...but without protection of Constitution. Voting opposite to people you generally disagree with for the sake of it is weak argument imv.
@NormaFoleyTD1
Minister, when schools were open the dominant variant was not as hugely transmissible as
#Omicron
and so we don't have data on how schools withstand
#Omicron
. Unvaccinated children need a chance to get vaccine. Please don't leave them behind.
@William_Bain
Once leadership abandons truth anything is possible....and this world of possibility has been called sovereignty by those who relish the power. Wrong direction for a civilized nation though. How far down this path will UK go under
@BorisJohnson
remains to be seen.
@NewstalkFM
@PatKennyNT
you raise periodically the point as to why those boarding planes from EU countries with travel document but disembarking with none are not returned to those EU countries. Perhaps you might ask
@HMcEntee
directly? Surely this is an operational matter at airports?
@ThomasByrneTD
@Independent_ie
Picture is insulting to women today who go through pregnancy & childbirth and depend on maternity leave. Having made themselves vulnerable and then responsible for the life and wellbeing of another, they and their partner depend on protection in the Constitution which you AXE.
Myself and
@Stephen63224725
just want to say a massive thank you to everyone for the support in relation to Harvey and the ongoing orthopaedic crisis us and families like us are facing.
There are so many families like us, children like Harvey suffering on a daily basis because
I'm not going to be the calmer for listening to
#liveline
today.
To the mother complaining that her child is now being forced to wear a mask to school - 'Where's his right to an education, Joe?' - I say, Madam, WE ARE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC.
#COVID19Ireland
#WearAMask
Some realities don't merit Constitutional protection imv
@ThomasByrneTD
tells us you can be married and be in 'durable relationship' with third party simultaneously...which is sort of State approved polygamous relationship imv. Meanwhile those who produce next generation deleted.
On Friday, we’ve the opportunity to update our Constitution to reflect the reality of modern Ireland
To make the definition of family more inclusive
To remove archaic language on a woman’s duties in the home
To recognise care provided by all family members at home
#VoteYesYes
Just to remind ourselves....
@fiannafailparty
@OgraFiannaFail
This caretaker taoiseach is the same person who normalized homelessness....he is now normalizing
#coronvirusireland
?
It is inevitable he says....most people will have mild dose....
Time to end caretaker government
If it's honest and straightforward or good there is no reason why Government, even if led from lofty heights by
@LeoVaradkar
, can't just come out and say it like it is, surely?
@cmaemcclean
They won’t release the consultation notes. May have something to do with the EU directive that refers to durable relationships for family reunification. Cloak and dagger stuff
@RoryHearne
@Keyes
@TodaywithClaire
It seems to me that this
@IRLDeptFinance
led approach to housing started with Michael Noonan and has been consistently promoted by FG. It is possibly a false economy promoted by
@IRLDeptFinance
who operate to save Exchequer spending. The outcome is inflated prices and misery.
Interesting points raised for those who want more than pictures of kitchen sinks to contemplate or archbishop in long dress. This is about removing wording from Constitution while there is a Supreme Court ruling pending on whether economic necessity phrase obliges state to act.
#Referendum
‘Care’ Article 42.B Not Human Rights Based. It Will Give Constitutional Expression to Patriarchal Ideology that Care is Exclusive Responsibility of Family - 98% Unpaid Carers in Families are Women & Girls. ‘Strive’ is Legal Opt Out for
@HSELive
& Govt-
#VoteNo
‼️ Ógra Fianna Fáil calls for the government to introduce a 100% redress scheme for homes affected by mica. Anything less than 100% redress for victims is not enough‼️
#100PercentRedress
#MicaRedress
The irony of women in NGOs and Oireachtas telling mothers, who choose differently from them to work at home, they are held back...and at the same time telling us the Rs are about difference & inclusion..is not entirely lost.
@rtenews
Clutching at straws. We’ve been listening to countless Govt TDs & Ministers referring to “woman in the home” and how it “kept women back” - clearing completely false.
#VoteNoRef24
@Michael_O_Regan
Perhaps it would have suited better to remain outside Dublin and visit beauty spots and places that hugely focus on American visitors? Weather is good for that? Sorry it was not a success.
Its alleged that the Taoiseach used a quote from
#meangirls
in a speech about
#COVID19
as a bet.
It's not the source of the quote but that a speech about a disease that killed so many was composed by the leader of a country for a €50 bet.
#primetime
@RTE_PrimeTime
@SarahAMcInerney
Figures that are agreed =truth? Is there actually any objective truth? How can it not be known how much the man was paid? What sort of accounting system is in
@rte
?