Michael McGrath tells National Economic Dialogue that €3bn is to be set aside in next year’s Budget for humanitarian and refugee costs arising from Ukraine
Michael McGrath tells National Economic Dialogue that €3bn is to be set aside in next year's Budget for humanitarian and refugee costs arising from Ukraine
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) June 20, 2022
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I’m all for helping but…3bn?!??
The fuckers act like they’re doing a great thing with 4bn a year on housing of which half goes to landlords via hap and then they pluck 3 billy for next year for the Ukrainians…
Good. We barely contribute to our own defence let alone Europe, we won’t supply the Ukrainians with the weapons they need to try and defend themselves, so providing cash for refugees is the least we can do as part of our contribution. Ireland is not neutral when it comes to the outcome of this war.
Amazing what they can find money for
Suppose that 16 billion from apple is just resting in an account somewhere 😇
So the magic money tree does exist
I think this is fair enough, but Christ can we call out hypocrisy when this government always calls out shots on any opposition from any party with a simple “SF/PBP/SD and there amazing money tree” , and yet they find 3bn like it’s nothing
Mad what this country can do when the world is watching
This country is an absolute joke… what the hell are they playing at, are our own not worthy of help 🤬🤬
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My sympathies are certainly with the people torn from their homelands by the ravages of war, but fuck me that is an eye watering amount of money.
Like what’s that, a whole metro system for Dublin? Two high speed rail lines? A few state of the art hospitals not built in Crumlin? A doubling of the number of houses to be built in a year? Some combination of them all maybe?
I guess it pales in comparison to the amount we piss away on NGOs.
We have less than 35,000 Ukrainian Refugee’s, that’s 85k per refugee?
And yet people will somehow blame FFG for this.
For scale, the mica redress fund that took over 10 years to campaign for is 2.7billion.
This is unclear, but including humanitarian aid in this, does that not mean it includes both caring for those we take in and also any aid we provide to Ukraine itself.
Using Ukrainians to keep house prices high and wages low is a new low.
The hotel owners are the only winners here, some of them Russian investors.