The Dail comes back for an hour and three quarters on fuel, then breaks for another fortnight

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Hello everyone

Hello everyone. I was so lucky and privileged here in Ireland to have a political establishment who are so in tune with the needs of our citizens. Today, the privileged politicians resume from a 6-week holiday to come back to the doll to debate the issues of the day. Now, the issue they debated was a financial motion brought forward from the Irish government. This was following public pressure in relation to the reintroduction of excise duty from September 1st.

Now, the government decided not to go ahead with these increases with excise duty from September 1st, but they haven't decided when they're going to push this forward later in the year. Already, we've seen an extortionate increase in fuel costs over the last number of months. This pushed more and more people over to the edge. But today, the motion was passed by 104 votes to 49 in Dáil Éireann. And following turn out for votes an hour and three-quarters, they.

Departed off in the merry little way for another 2-week holiday, and they won't resume business in Dáil Éireann until the middle of September. So, wait for it, the Punch and Judy show has nearly been off for 8 weeks for this 1 hour and 3 quarters interlude in their summer holiday to resume their Punch and Judy show. And today, Simon Harris spoke a few words around what was taking place, and he said that the government has to be.

Responsible for decision-making. Well done, Simon Harris. Good observation. And he also said it's a very uncertain world. Again, Simon Harris, top of the class for your observation about the uncertainty in terms of the world. Did you say anything to me how Martin beside you built Ireland signing up to coalition of the willing? I don't think he did. But we won't say that the Irish people weren't asked when he was transporting more and more of our public money into the corrupt regime in.

Ukraine. And he said that no government can insulate any country from a global energy shock. Correct again, Simon, because you've left us completely open to the market and the government that you're part of and previous governments yourselves have depleted Ireland of most of our natural resources or sold them off through the European Union neoliberal agenda. This is what it's all about, isn't it? Privatizing our resources, our assets, and selling them off, and leaving us beholden to any.

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Global energy shock that Simon Harris said no government

Global energy shock that Simon Harris said no government can insulate us from. And at the same time, he said that we cannot cancel movements in international commodity markets. Yes, this is the god for the Irish government, the famous commodity markets where those hedge funds, private equity funds can make massive windfalls from shorting oil in terms of keeping the price artificially low despite all the massive shortages and the eking out of the strategic petroleum reserve as well.

“And at the same time, he said that we cannot cancel movements in international commodity markets”

And he said that we cannot be dishonest in politics. Well, maybe he could be honest in politics. He's completely dishonest. We know about his predecessor as head at the helm of the Fine Gael party, Leo Varadkar, in terms of his {inverted commas} honesty also as well and his leak and other confidential for circulation document to one of his friends at the time, wasn't it? So much for honesty in politics. And he said he wants to help people to get through the.

Next crisis. This is more of the same nonsense coming from the Irish government when they're pulling in massive, massive tax windfalls from the increase is increase in taxation from the extortion increases in fuel costs, which is pushing more and more people over the edge, many who are struggling to get by, and in particular now over the coming winter months, more and more people will be forced into poverty and deprivation because of the actions of this government who are.

Beholden to their international commodity markets rather than stand up for the needs of our citizens and stand up for a real strong resourceful country and nation where we use resources for the good of our citizens. But at the same time the opposition weren't much better, our so-called opposition. They were hastening the push towards the net zero agenda. All of them were nearly so excited they couldn't contain themselves in terms of pushing towards electric vehicles, and pushing towards.

Solar panels, and pushing towards more and more avenues towards a totalitarian dystopia being pushed forward by the European Union. So, more punchy junior politics, but essence it meant nothing. It was just something about a public relations stunt today, and more and more people should wake up to really place in our society that they don't serve the interests of the people of Ireland. If they did, we'd put our interests first, and we would make us energy resilient,.

Use the resources for the good of our country, but they're not. They're being sold off and sold off to the highest bidder, or even lowest bidder in some cases as well. This is all about the agenda of the neoliberal project of the European Union. So, thanks so much for supporting my videos. Really appreciate them, and again, thanks for sharing them as well. So, I'm Dublin today. Slán go foil. Talk to you all soon.

The Dail comes back for an hour and three quarters on fuel, then breaks for another fortnight.

Dooley watches the Dail resume from a 6-week holiday to take a financial motion brought by the government, after public pressure over the reintroduction of excise duty from September 1st. The government has decided not to go ahead with the increases from September 1st, but he says it has not decided when it will push them forward later in the year. The motion passed by 104 votes to 49, the sitting ran an hour and three quarters, and the Dail then went off for another 2-week holiday and will not resume business until the middle of September. He picks apart what Simon Harris said in the chamber, on responsibility for decision-making, on the uncertain world, on no government being able to insulate a country from a global energy shock, and on honesty in politics. His charge is that Ireland has been left open to the market because governments sold off or depleted the country's natural resources, while the state collects a growing tax take from fuel costs that are pushing people into poverty. He says the opposition was no better, because it spent the sitting pushing the net zero agenda.