Taoiseach says Sinn Féin are ‘falling into Putin trap’ by laying blame for rising cost of living on the Irish Government

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  2. What was causing the rising cost of living before the ukraine war?

    Surely unrelated to the western world embarking on massive borrowing backed government spending and telling large swathes of the workforce to stay a home.

    Maybe it had to be done, that’s grand, but lets be honest about the hangover that that is causing now and deal with it responsibly.

  9. Wouldn’t governments being destabilised by rising prices also be part of Putins plan, and wouldn’t keeping the cost of living low through tax cuts or whatever be a way to defeat Putins plan?

  11. This war is a godsend for governments in the west. They can blame everything on Putin, knowing the media wont question them and the public are too transfixed with love island to care.

  12. Again this fucking idiot lies, look up the inflation rates. It was 6% before Christmas. That fact he is blaming it on Putin is embarrassing.

  14. Yeah its russias fault our rents are sky high cause FFG needs to appease its incel landlord friends

  15. More fool anybody who believes him.

    The reality is that the mishandling of the Covid pandemic by western governments who engaged in an over the top and excessively conservative response has been the primary driver of the current cost of living crisis.

    Yes, Russia’s war on Ukraine has also exacerbated this but he’s trying to obfuscate & deflect with suggestions that we could have just printed off and spent billions and billions of euro and then carried on like nothing had happened with a 1.8% inflation rate.

    It’s worse than naive, it’s totally dishonest. That being said, I’m not sure what Sinn Fein are crying about – they wanted to print and spend even more ffs

  18. If the government removed the taxes on petrol/Diesel the costs for many of our producers would decrease…same goes for power as well…

    A lad in work, does a bit of construction on the side, and the cost of getting stuff delivered has almost tripled in the past few months…that’s down to taxes/excise on fuel alone

  22. Fuckin Putin legislating in the Dáil for minimum unit pricing and the highest tobacco duty, car tax, energy prices, rent and fuel costs in the EU

  25. Taoiseach,

    If you could please stop saying such shite that means I’m having to defend SF, I’d appreciate it.

    Sincerely,

    Person planning on having FF be second last choice next election.

  26. We are the most expensive country in the EU.

    Implying there are 26 other “cheaper” countries in the EU.

    Who else am I gonna blame?

    Seriously.

  29. I guess it’s possible that someone could toke so much during their UCC years that they can’t even remember doing it when questioned in a live tv debate.

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