Yes, I thought it was brilliant. Showed what Harris and the government politicians are really like. They've been in power too long and are getting arrogant
Hi I’m just a random Irish person here, Just wanted to say thank you for your hard work and service to our communities and that you’re appreciated as a care worker and everything you do. I can only imagine how difficult it must be to be ignored by the government. You guys deserve better in Ireland.
I was a carer to my late mother ,no one back then informed me I could get carers. She bless her had heart disease, and lung cancer I looked after her till she passed away. Sadly then Dad got sick ,Mini stroke, prone to falls, dementia and finally pancreatic cancer. I put in for carers and it was means tested. Dss lost my original form and over 9months later I got the carers but not the back money. I was promised. Shocking how cares are treated .
@@annettereddall8982 you have to fight for everything as a carer, we were nearly 4 years years waiting for an assessment of needs and by then my daughter was nearly 18. It's shocking and sorry you had to go through that but it's all too common.
@@annettereddall8982I understand my husband is out of work sick 3 years I don't get career in hospital for 3 weeks and they sent him home with a carers package one hour every morning and this is for me makes me so angry
She was a shining star here in this engagement. He just showed a total lack of any understanding and was extremely condescending towards the lady. Now he is trying to go full PR to make him look like he cares but his mask slipped here 100%
If there hadn't been the cameras of the national broadcaster (bad as they have become), he would have kept running away. He probably trusted they would cut the bit?
Simon Harris has just sealed he's faith. he hasn't got the quality and understanding. to lead this country. no respect at all for people and there's views.clran out you desk your done.
Exactly, like do not touch me you absolute g h o u l. Whilst raging and invalidating & disrespecting a human beings lived experience .. he doesn’t give A F & keeps using his brother’s disability as some kind of brownie pt that he thinks can magically dispel criticism of his violent policies against disabled & their carers I repeat an absolute GHOUL
Carers are so underpaid. Its focking disgraceful. I was in hospital for quite a while recently, and realised how much I was cared for, and for 'free.' I'm now starting volunteer work. This isn't the focus of Max's video, but it just reminded me and of the disconnect between the rich and poor, and MPs...
It isn't free, I keep hearing this more and more these days, we pay taxes for care (unless there's a charity involved due to extreme circumstances). Totally agree with you on the disconnect between the rich and the poor, however many will find themselves another politician, equally uncaring and from the elite in society, maybe who's worked in banking or finance, who is charismatic and tells them someone else is to blame and they'll fix everything despite being a grifter who is only doing it to enrich themselves. We need politicians who actually care and want to fix things, not bureaucrats or populists. Sadly there aren't many of those around right now.
Old Jamaican proverb "If you don't Hear, You will Feel" and this politician is definitely not listening. I hope she reminds him at the ballot box who's the BOSS in this arrangement and who he's there to serve. I hope they remedy this situation SHE seems desperate.
Ironically he did the same with my father at an event we were at! My father is wheelchair-bound and has a hypoxic brain injury due to a cardiac arrest brought on by the effects of Covid-19 which he contracted working in the hospital during the pandemic. Simon came over shook my father's hand and before anyone could respond he had walked away!🤬
@@ROC14088 don't know what planet your on but the post was specifically about how Simon Harris interacted with her/his father - and why the father was wheelchair bound and on topic for this thread...! Your opinion that political views were more important that health are based solely on your own assumption and prejudice - So it was a needless Nasty comment....!
@@Haerinx87: “Ex IRA man: SF’s Irish language act ‘red line’ is designed to force unionist capitulation Former IRA bomber and prisoner SHANE PAUL O’DOHERTY exposes the tensions and hypocrisies at the heart of the republican party By The Newsroom Published 23rd Feb 2018, 08:00 BST - 5 min read Updated 23rd Feb 2018, 14:44 BST Neither of Sinn Fein’s women leaders Michelle O’Neill and Mary Lou McDonald are fluent Irish speakers Modern Sinn Fein is, to my mind, an extreme political and sectarian cult-like movement dedicated to the achievement of a British withdrawal from Northern Ireland (a state or province it will only ever refer to as ‘the North’ or ‘the north of Ireland’ or ‘a putrid little statelet’). Its membership includes both current and former members of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army and others who have not involved themselves in ‘armed struggle’. Sinn Fein’s primary leader, Gerry Adams, recently stepped backwards after 34 years of unparalleled party leader status. His backward step may have had something to do with his unscripted comments in Enniskillen in November 2014 when he was recorded saying about Northern Ireland’s Protestant unionists: “But what’s the point? The point is to actually break these bastards - that’s the point. And what’s going to break them is equality ... That’s what we need to keep the focus on - that’s the Trojan horse of the entire republican strategy is to reach out to people on the basis of equality.” It was impossible for Adams to build an honest relationship with unionism after this admission. Sinn Fein regards the IRA’s 30-year ‘armed struggle’ as entirely legitimate and celebrates those IRA volunteers who committed murders and bombings and in particular those who were killed by police or soldiers while ‘in action’. Sinn Fein regards all those who were imprisoned for murders and bombings as ‘political prisoners’ and as POWs. Sinn Fein appears to be utterly blind to the thousands of human rights atrocities of the IRA, its many murders, anti-civilian bombings and tortures of persons whose bodies were dumped along the border or ‘disappeared’. The October 2015 assessment of paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland found that Provisional IRA members believe that the ‘army council’ oversees both the IRA and Sinn Fein. The party has little internal ‘democracy’. It has been wracked by complaints of internal bullying and mass resignations of activists in the Republic of Ireland (that other ‘putrid little statelet’). Sinn Fein bears the burden of both recognising and denying the state of Northern Ireland. It participates in a form of aggressive, dominant politicking around the single political institution there, the Northern Ireland Assembly (“Stormont” which it recently collapsed) while also standing for election to the British parliament at Westminster and yet refusing to take its won seats there to represent its electors (a policy called ‘abstention’). Sinn Fein spent 10 years at the heart of Stormont rule between June 1998 and January 2017 but did a U-turn on participation on January 9, 2017, when the deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness, resigned and collapsed the institution only six weeks after jointly issuing the following statement with first minister Arlene Foster of the DUP: “Day by day, slowly but surely, politics here is changing. And it’s for the better. The focus is increasingly now on policies and delivery - on finding the best ways to make people’s lives better. The seeds of this change can be found in the Fresh Start Agreement a year ago and the Assembly election some six months later. Our two parties - along with Claire Sugden as justice minister - are now in an Executive facing in the same direction. We made promises to voters that we will keep - taking on the heavy responsibilities that come with elected office, governing in their best interests, tackling head-on the tough decisions. Others decided to duck the challenges and retreat to the opposition benches. That is a matter for them. We are getting on with the work.” Sinn Fein and the IRA had together spent three decades decrying any form of Northern Ireland political institutions and supported a bombing and murder campaign designed to destabilise and destroy Northern Ireland as a functioning political entity. Many of Sinn Fein’s supporters throughout Ireland had been weaned on the doctrine of abstention and violent destruction of Northern Ireland and found it difficult to reconcile Martin McGuinness’s participation in Stormont as deputy first minister. His collapsing of the Assembly and Sinn Fein’s subsequent aggressive attitude to its restoration sits more easily with Sinn Fein and IRA supporters, particularly across the Republic of Ireland, than did his chuckling participation. As part of Sinn Fein’s January 2017 U-turn, it has suddenly demanded a stand-alone Irish language act (“ILA” or Acht na Gaeilge) with far-reaching implications for Northern Ireland while most of Sinn Fein’s leadership and membership is not fluent in Irish and while only 6,000 citizens of Northern Ireland returned census forms using the Irish language in 2011. Neither of Sinn Fein’s women leaders, Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill, can speak Irish fluently and appear embarrassed and struck dumb on news videos when faced with questions posed in Irish by journalists. Martin McGuinness did not promote an ILA during his previous 10 years as deputy first minister in government in Stormont not least because he could not speak Irish fluently either. Gerry Adams appears hesitant and uncertain when attempting to use basic Irish phrases. Sinn Fein’s sudden decision to make an ILA a ‘red line’ precondition for the return of Stormont is the cultural equivalent of the IRA’s Canary Wharf bombing - an explosive device designed to force capitulation by unionists. Sinn Fein appears to be a leftward political movement when in the company of Cuban or Latin American or British Labour party friends. Sinn Fein appears to be a rightward political movement when in the company of North American Republican party friends. Sinn Fein appears to be a culturally separatist movement when in the company of Basque or Catalan friends. Sinn Fein appears to be a centrist movement in the Republic of Ireland where it wants to partner with the socially conservative and nationalistic Fianna Fail party. Sinn Fein appears to be a rightist movement in the Republic of Ireland where it would consider partnering with the even more socially conservative and right-wing Fine Gael party. Sinn Fein appears to be a pro-Catholic movement in parts of Ireland where there is a socially conservative electorate. Sinn Fein appears to be a liberal reformist movement when confronted by LGBT and pro-abortion activists. Sinn Fein appears to want to both date and hate Protestant unionists in Northern Ireland. Sinn Fein was historically headquartered in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. In the early and mid-1970s, the Belfast Brigade of the IRA moved to centralise control of the IRA and of Sinn Fein in west Belfast. Sinn Fein’s recent appointment of a Dublin-based leader, Mary Lou McDonald, once more raises the tensions between west Belfast and remote Dublin with consequences as yet unforeseen. Despite the fact that McDonald is the titular leader of Sinn Fein and is deputised by Northern Ireland’s Michelle O’Neill, the influence of the IRA’s Army Council has not gone away. Sinn Fein’s in-house comedian, abstentionist Westminster MP Barry McElduff, was forced to resign recently after he poked fun at the Kingsmills massacre of 10 Protestants by the IRA, one of many actions the IRA has never formally admitted. Sinn Fein claims it has recently transferred its support to the IRE - integrity, respect and equality - as the basis of its campaigning in Northern Ireland.” [Críochnaíonn]
I suffered an MCA stroke in February I've written to him on several occasions without reply I live in damp accomodation for the past 2 years isolated from public transport due to multiple hospital appointments the guy on the high Vis vest told a councillor from fine Gael when I said I was isolated from services sure there is always click and collect people can drop shopping to me fine Gael has no interest in people who are marginalized and isolated if your disabled in this country
Your Irish that's what the problem is All our mainstream parties only want to help asylum seekers not the Irish You know which way to vote next week Nationalist
What Simon Harris did to that lady was unforgivable. He treated her with utter contempt like she was just a piece of dirt. The work and effort care workers put into their work in this country is noting short of heroic. However they never have, and probably never will get the praise and thanks they so much deserve, at least not from this government. The way he looked down at that lady disgusts me.
If his brother is autistic he's more the likely himself, would explain the lack of emotion I have that myself sadly at times, though common decency you'd think he'd be able to understand empathy at his age if he does indeed have it
Keep up the Irish ☘️ content please 🙏 We don’t have that many people here online asking proper questions, plus you got the accent and how to say the words just right; many outside Ireland 🇮🇪 don’t!
@@mungoboomdecker9711Really? Thats funny because during the last general election Taoiseach Varadkar struggled to retain his seat and was only reelected on the 7th count. It's unlikely Harris will lose his seat but it certainly isn't impossible.
@@mungoboomdecker9711 I've read a preview for Wicklow constituency and sadly it appears Harris is as safe as houses there, at least in terms of remaining a TD.
Fine Gael doesn't care about the People all they want is multi millionaire's. No one should vote for this person (Harris) or fine Gael . He showed his and his party's true colours. Fair play to this young lady 👏 she should run next time I'd vote for her 💯👍
The budget raised disability allowance (from January 2025) by €12, to €244 (the poverty threshold is €291.50 in Ireland) this coupled with the lack of therapeutic support is pushing families into financial despair. There are thousands of people living in institutions or who are living at home with family carers who could and need to move into a home of their own but nothing has been done. A tokenistic one of payment of €400 is not going to help disabled people living well below the poverty line, and marginalised carers already carrying the weight of broken systems. If Simon Harris really cared about Disabled people he has a funny way of showing it, nothing but empty words and promises and a weak hand shake.
It's currently €248 and will go up to €260. Unemployment benefit and sick benefit is €232. Still nowhere near enough if you don't have a spouse or some other way of means.
@@dcar I double checked the amount (figures taken from Citizens Information) and I had made a mistake, which I have corrected thank you. But we agree it's "nowhere near enough" given the poverty threshold. According to Citizens Information the Personal rate for disability allowance is currently €232 (not €248) which is the same as the max Personal rate for Jobseeker's Benefit and Illness Benefit and will rise for all three by €12 to €244 in Jan 2025.
Simon Harris has showed his true self . What an obnoxious little weasel. Carers play a vital roll in keeping hospital beds free , Its back breaking and heartbreaking work that pays minimum amount, shocking still is that its means tested. The audacity of that man to stand there and blatantly lie to this lady.
That’s a silly statement. His father was a taxi driver and he got interested in politics as a teenager to advocate for his younger brother who he was caring for with his mother. He’s a totally genuine compassionate man and he suffers from Crohn’s disease. I think the lady is so angry and stressed with her caring issues that she was unfair to him. He’s well aware of the problem and I think he really does his best. We expect an awful lot in this country. Life is tough but it’s much worse in other countries. I’m sorry that this one instance has been blown up so much. We really need decent people like him running the country.
Sure isn’t that the typical way of a politician thinking they can pave over everything and it will be ok. “I’m sorry, oh by the way would ye vote for us”. How may times can these spineless con artists just say a fake apology and move on. They are a joke
Clear evidence that he is not equipped to be a public leader in any way, let alone of the country. No empathy, no care, no interest... until he's caught out. Cue the grovelling apology
But who is going to match FF and FG numbers Aontu, SPBP, Independents Ireland, Soc Dems, Labour, Green Party? None of them are going to unless they are going to have like 5 parties in a coalition it will take months for them to agree to each others mandates. Even if they agree.
@roisinmalone3015 I want him to explain how a let's say nurse of 20years with a contract can't get a mortgage but a uni drop short term TD can afford a big mortgage if technically a politician is an agency temp worker?
@ he and the rest of his party buddies are all living on easy street and so far out of touch with people it’s beyond comprehension. The fact they tried to get rid of any assistance for caters in one of the March referendums says it all. He made an apology video now but had to add his own family into it. This has backfired and the final straw to end his career with luck.
Max, i have just gone off you, big time, After following you for years on these pages, you have lost me as a watcher and a listener, I am convinced that you are a supporter of Sinn Fein, and I don't like that one bit.Sinn Fein Is a party that doesn't recognize our state.
@@mildlydispleased3221 That mess is down to Bertie Ahern First, wrong location on the Mater site where Bertie worked as a Clerical Officer before becoming the local TD. Second, curved design with loads of waves. Third, wrong alternative location on the St. James site with the same curved design with loads of waves. Best location, would have been the Connolly Memorial site just off the M50. The NCH was always going to be a poison chalice for whoever was left holding the baby.
@@chattyrat3354 Harris said the other day that the buck stops with him over the hospital debacle. He didn't apologise or do anything worthwhile to try to remedy anything, just claimed that it was his responsibility. Whoever signed off on an eliptical building needs to go back to nursery school for a proper education.
I work in the disability sector. We're always the last to get the pay rises ect. No Christmas bonus for us either. On top of that we're owed a fair bit of back pay for sleepover rates. Do you think we'll get this before Christmas... Unlikely. That woman was completely right. Fair play to her.
Ya got a 100 present of a person that u caught out fair play yo u for voicing ur concerns to Simon Harris lovely jubilee I was a caregiver for my partner &love of my life got no help of the she passed 4 years ago shame on that government 😒😒😒
Both carers and the disabled/elderly have been treated badly by this government. Most people are working poor, living pay cheque to pay cheque. Inflation is such that people can not afford food. Wages have not increased to meet the ever rising rents. Over 75% of the TDs are landlords, so a cap on rents does not interest them. There will be rioting in the streets if people continue to suffer as their concerns are unheard and their basic needs are unmet.
The government we have is far from perfect, loads of faults. But to be honest, I would prefer to have them at the helm than a SF led government considering the result of the US election. Our entire economic model is under serious threat, as are hundreds of thousands of jobs.
@@frankcartymaybe we should look to try a different economic model then instead of suckling at the teat of a basket case nation who just elected a fascist
@yermanoffthetelly the calibre of public representation in politics in terms of mcentee in particular , has never dipped so low , an actual insult to the electorate. The best thing she could have done , after having two full maternity leaves off ( another joke ) , was to literally leave , and us all alone and away from her fads , notions and pc styled wordings . Harris covered for her role , if I'm right , when she had the full maternity leave ( never done till then to date for a ' minister ' ) off . Then she went and same again . This is what people need to realise with her. Dragged into politics, well above her station, winging it , literally at the country and tax payers expense.
@@yermanoffthetellyshe had varadkar summon Harris to cover her on her two baby breaks , never done b4 in government led ministers . Now Harris returning the clique led back scratching . She epitomises all that is wrong with our set up here. It s pretty sad really as it's at the real people's expense .
That's Simon Harris in a nutshell, a Taoiseach of our country, elected on the 16th count without reaching the quota. Fine Gael like the Tories in England in power for nearly 14 yrs, are a disgrace.
The count you get elected on means absolutely nothing. You are elected or not, he was elected. FG topped the first preference votes in Wicklow, they ran 3 candidates. Simon got the second hightest number of first preference votes. The number of counts relates to the number of candidates that are on the ballet paper, the more candidate, the more counts requires when one is eliminated.
@@frankcarty Are you being paid by FG or something? The way you're bootlicking your way through the comment section I'd almost say you are. And FG only topped the first preference votes because they ran three candidates. The three of them combined only got 1% more than the single SF candidate.
Agree with everything ,as a only daughter I tried to get cares for my 89 year old dad I'm a school warden ,I had no holidays in 6 years ,I was told because of my hours ,I did not qualify, I saved the state a fortune like so many, we will never be recognised, funny how they give themselves a rise every year ,shameful. 😢😢😢
And his boss at the time Leo was making Mean Girl jokes while addressing the nation during the pandemic and the elderly suffering in the nursing homes. FG don’t care about anyone earning under 200k
This typifies the attitude of the Two largest parties in Ireland (FF and FG) - Doesnt matter , who cares , if we dont get in now itll be our turn next time or well do a deal and go into coalition with FF anyway . Too long in power breeds arrogance. Ill be voting SF
@@amcc5887 We have a unique breed of incompetent politicians in Ireland - Theres loads of money - and they dont seem to know how to spend it. Longest emergency waiting times in europe , ongoing (and severe) housing crisis. FAAAAAR tOOO long in power THEY DONT CARE.
There is no good option in Irish politics, you have: The Conservative-Liberal party, the Liberal-Conservative party, and far-left populists with a history of blowing people up. All of the mainstream options are terrible.
The carer's issue is big and very sore with the population this election round. Whether they like it or not the politicians cannot dodge the bullet on this issue for much longer. I am surprised that Simon Harris fumbled the ball here given his interest in disability issues.
Shame on you that young lady should not even talk to him very rude he walked away from the Burke family as well 😊very strange indeed 😕 🤔 god save Ireland
He's a complete incompetent. He signed off on the new children's hospital with a price tag of 800 million, it's now cost over 2 billion. He's a empty suited dunce and an embarrassment
He actually would've gained more respect if he held his hands up and said "you're right i should have included carer's" Instead he chose the politicians way and just dismissed everything she said.
There are three classes of carers. 1. The home carer who provides care for a family member. They are paid directly by DSP and any changes in rates payable are, as a rule, set by the budget. They got increases in this year's budget. 2. A section 38 employee, who works as a carer in an institutional or home setting who is employed by a body that is contracted by the HSE "for the provision of a health or personal social service". These carers are regarded as public sector workers whose pay is increased in line with collective bargaining arrangements agreed between the Public Service Committee of ICTU and the Government. Public sector workers, including all section 38 carers, got an increase in pay on 1 October 2024 as part of the 2024-2026 Public Service Pay Agreement. 3. A section 39 employee, who works as a carer in an institutional or home setting who is employed by a body that provides "assistance to any person or body that provides or proposes to provide a service similar or ancillary to a service that the Executive may provide". These carers are not regarded as public sector workers and therefore do not necessarily benefit from collective bargaining arrangements agreed between the Public Service Committee of ICTU and the Government. According to RTÉ, she is a section 39 employee. Section 39 employees have a valid grievance with regard to pay arrangements, but this is an IR / HR issue between employers and employees (and their Unions) as opposed to a social protection issue that is covered by the budget.
Dude's the leader of a centre-right party that has always looked after the interests of the rich because they believe rich people are better people and the poor should be happy to be ruled by their betters.
It'll be another coalition between ff/fg again unfortunately, id bet my house on it,the younger generation need to vote,and vote that conservative coalition out,until that happens, nothing will change 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤦🤦
Polls aren't looking great at the moment to get them out but you're right. Young people I talk to act disaffected but won't vote, which exacerbates the issue. Even if no one represents you properly, at least vote for someone that isn't an incumbent vulture.
Too bad no real postal votes 🗳 in Ireland and with 21 days notice of a date in Harris’s diary months ago, they had to open up postal vote applications to day 19 which was the Sunday of the same Friday weekend the election was called. Anyway even if you qualify for a postal vote 🗳 it would be very impractical to apply for one in such a tight weekend window, plus a very narrow set of the electorate qualify anyway. Also Irish ☘️ Citizens living abroad have almost no say either as they don’t qualify for voting from abroad; and trust me there is a lot of young Irish away from the island to escape the oppression of their own born, breed and highly educated youth (anyone really under 40) whom after 2008 were basically given the two fingers to. Of course they had the brains 🧠 which the political class abandoned in that bust, and they created a pyramid scheme of over inflated property prices and rents, just to keep the bankers and international funds happy, plus the political class seem to love 💕 their new found non Irish ☘️ international friends, whom basically are now being imported in to keep the pyramid scheme going. The political class ensure they all have extra cushy retirement jobs, working again the domestic native population, basically if your outside the cushy club, best of luck to you 😊
Max, We do not want to see the Rishi managed encounters introduced in Ireland. The man's behaviour was lousy. He later apologised and I hope he really learns from this lady when their meeting takes place.
Fair play to her for having the balls to call him out in front of his gang and all the cameras. Proud of her 💚
It won't directly help carers, but for her, she should condider journalism.
Yes, I thought it was brilliant. Showed what Harris and the government politicians are really like. They've been in power too long and are getting arrogant
The mask dropped he realised roo yikes
He has aggressive to meet her not because he is sorry but because it was captured on social media
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Respect to this Lady for calling it out ! ❤
She should probably run instead of him , She has only said a few words but id definately vote for her before that fool.
As a carer here in Ireland everything she said is spot on. Well done to that lady. That's the Irish government for you there in one short interaction.
Hi I’m just a random Irish person here, Just wanted to say thank you for your hard work and service to our communities and that you’re appreciated as a care worker and everything you do. I can only imagine how difficult it must be to be ignored by the government. You guys deserve better in Ireland.
I was a carer to my late mother ,no one back then informed me I could get carers.
She bless her had heart disease, and lung cancer I looked after her till she passed away.
Sadly then Dad got sick ,Mini stroke, prone to falls, dementia and finally pancreatic cancer.
I put in for carers and it was means tested.
Dss lost my original form and over 9months later I got the carers but not the back money. I was promised.
Shocking how cares are treated .
He’s not a peoples person his personality is not very good as a politician his attitude needs improvement 🤦♀️🤥
@@annettereddall8982 you have to fight for everything as a carer, we were nearly 4 years years waiting for an assessment of needs and by then my daughter was nearly 18. It's shocking and sorry you had to go through that but it's all too common.
@@annettereddall8982I understand my husband is out of work sick 3 years I don't get career in hospital for 3 weeks and they sent him home with a carers package one hour every morning and this is for me makes me so angry
She was a shining star here in this engagement.
He just showed a total lack of any understanding and was extremely condescending towards the lady.
Now he is trying to go full PR to make him look like he cares but his mask slipped here 100%
If there hadn't been the cameras of the national broadcaster (bad as they have become), he would have kept running away.
He probably trusted they would cut the bit?
Simon Harris has just sealed he's faith. he hasn't got the quality and understanding. to lead this country. no respect at all for people and there's views.clran out you desk your done.
Well done, that lady for standing up for her principles. Showed the man in a bad light indeed!
Looking down his nose at her😡😡😡 Ireland please vote this thing out 🙏🏼🙏🏼🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
He is so nasty to everyone looking down his nose with a cutting look
This is good journalism
Respect to this person who is not shy nor stupid like the git she just spoke to.
Do any of us believe they have our interest at heart
No, none of them.@@ViDuhy
Well done lady.
The hand grab for an opportunistic handshake was so weird and inhuman.
Followed by a grovelling apology the next day.
Exactly, like do not touch me you absolute g h o u l. Whilst raging and invalidating & disrespecting a human beings lived experience .. he doesn’t give A F & keeps using his brother’s disability as some kind of brownie pt that he thinks can magically dispel criticism of his violent policies against disabled & their carers
I repeat an absolute GHOUL
During the first week I saw him in a farmers mart, talk about wrong place wrong time, watery handshakes don’t impress the farmers
@@Bdoc76it,s a pity that one of the Farmers didn,t have a big Glove with watery Cow shine on it and Shook his Hand with it?.😂😂😂
'YOU ARE NOT A GOOD MAN!' Words that will haunt Simon Harris for the rest of his political career!
We have known that for years!!!
Carers are so underpaid. Its focking disgraceful. I was in hospital for quite a while recently, and realised how much I was cared for, and for 'free.' I'm now starting volunteer work. This isn't the focus of Max's video, but it just reminded me and of the disconnect between the rich and poor, and MPs...
It isn't free, I keep hearing this more and more these days, we pay taxes for care (unless there's a charity involved due to extreme circumstances). Totally agree with you on the disconnect between the rich and the poor, however many will find themselves another politician, equally uncaring and from the elite in society, maybe who's worked in banking or finance, who is charismatic and tells them someone else is to blame and they'll fix everything despite being a grifter who is only doing it to enrich themselves. We need politicians who actually care and want to fix things, not bureaucrats or populists. Sadly there aren't many of those around right now.
Old Jamaican proverb "If you don't Hear, You will Feel" and this politician is definitely not listening. I hope she reminds him at the ballot box who's the BOSS in this arrangement and who he's there to serve. I hope they remedy this situation SHE seems desperate.
I am sure she will remind him on Friday, as will others
Ironically he did the same with my father at an event we were at! My father is wheelchair-bound and has a hypoxic brain injury due to a cardiac arrest brought on by the effects of Covid-19 which he contracted working in the hospital during the pandemic. Simon came over shook my father's hand and before anyone could respond he had walked away!🤬
@@ROC14088 That was nasty....!
@@ROC14088 Nasty comment regardless - sad when you have to like your own comments bud....!
@@ROC14088 don't know what planet your on but the post was specifically about how Simon Harris interacted with her/his father - and why the father was wheelchair bound and on topic for this thread...!
Your opinion that political views were more important that health are based solely on your own assumption and prejudice - So it was a needless Nasty comment....!
@@ROC14088 And you call someone else "One of the crazies" - take a look in the mirror bro....!
@@ROC14088how do you know what she
Is? Calling people names will get you removed from this channel .
Utterly useless politician ....vote them out on Friday...😡
You can't vote them out when it's only them you can vote for.
@@garyhynes can't you vote for anybody other than FF FG & the greens
Even if the majority vote SF, FF & FG will go into coalition and win again
@@garyhynesexplain please
@@Haerinx87: “Ex IRA man: SF’s Irish language act ‘red line’ is designed to force unionist capitulation
Former IRA bomber and prisoner SHANE PAUL O’DOHERTY exposes the tensions and hypocrisies at the heart of the republican party
By The Newsroom
Published 23rd Feb 2018, 08:00 BST - 5 min read
Updated 23rd Feb 2018, 14:44 BST
Neither of Sinn Fein’s women leaders Michelle O’Neill and Mary Lou McDonald are fluent Irish speakers
Modern Sinn Fein is, to my mind, an extreme political and sectarian cult-like movement dedicated to the achievement of a British withdrawal from Northern Ireland (a state or province it will only ever refer to as ‘the North’ or ‘the north of Ireland’ or ‘a putrid little statelet’).
Its membership includes both current and former members of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army and others who have not involved themselves in ‘armed struggle’.
Sinn Fein’s primary leader, Gerry Adams, recently stepped backwards after 34 years of unparalleled party leader status.
His backward step may have had something to do with his unscripted comments in Enniskillen in November 2014 when he was recorded saying about Northern Ireland’s Protestant unionists: “But what’s the point? The point is to actually break these bastards - that’s the point. And what’s going to break them is equality ... That’s what we need to keep the focus on - that’s the Trojan horse of the entire republican strategy is to reach out to people on the basis of equality.”
It was impossible for Adams to build an honest relationship with unionism after this admission.
Sinn Fein regards the IRA’s 30-year ‘armed struggle’ as entirely legitimate and celebrates those IRA volunteers who committed murders and bombings and in particular those who were killed by police or soldiers while ‘in action’. Sinn Fein regards all those who were imprisoned for murders and bombings as ‘political prisoners’ and as POWs.
Sinn Fein appears to be utterly blind to the thousands of human rights atrocities of the IRA, its many murders, anti-civilian bombings and tortures of persons whose bodies were dumped along the border or ‘disappeared’.
The October 2015 assessment of paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland found that Provisional IRA members believe that the ‘army council’ oversees both the IRA and Sinn Fein.
The party has little internal ‘democracy’. It has been wracked by complaints of internal bullying and mass resignations of activists in the Republic of Ireland (that other ‘putrid little statelet’).
Sinn Fein bears the burden of both recognising and denying the state of Northern Ireland. It participates in a form of aggressive, dominant politicking around the single political institution there, the Northern Ireland Assembly (“Stormont” which it recently collapsed) while also standing for election to the British parliament at Westminster and yet refusing to take its won seats there to represent its electors (a policy called ‘abstention’).
Sinn Fein spent 10 years at the heart of Stormont rule between June 1998 and January 2017 but did a U-turn on participation on January 9, 2017, when the deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness, resigned and collapsed the institution only six weeks after jointly issuing the following statement with first minister Arlene Foster of the DUP: “Day by day, slowly but surely, politics here is changing. And it’s for the better.
The focus is increasingly now on policies and delivery - on finding the best ways to make people’s lives better. The seeds of this change can be found in the Fresh Start Agreement a year ago and the Assembly election some six months later. Our two parties - along with Claire Sugden as justice minister - are now in an Executive facing in the same direction.
We made promises to voters that we will keep - taking on the heavy responsibilities that come with elected office, governing in their best interests, tackling head-on the tough decisions. Others decided to duck the challenges and retreat to the opposition benches. That is a matter for them. We are getting on with the work.”
Sinn Fein and the IRA had together spent three decades decrying any form of Northern Ireland political institutions and supported a bombing and murder campaign designed to destabilise and destroy Northern Ireland as a functioning political entity.
Many of Sinn Fein’s supporters throughout Ireland had been weaned on the doctrine of abstention and violent destruction of Northern Ireland and found it difficult to reconcile Martin McGuinness’s participation in Stormont as deputy first minister.
His collapsing of the Assembly and Sinn Fein’s subsequent aggressive attitude to its restoration sits more easily with Sinn Fein and IRA supporters, particularly across the Republic of Ireland, than did his chuckling participation.
As part of Sinn Fein’s January 2017 U-turn, it has suddenly demanded a stand-alone Irish language act (“ILA” or Acht na Gaeilge) with far-reaching implications for Northern Ireland while most of Sinn Fein’s leadership and membership is not fluent in Irish and while only 6,000 citizens of Northern Ireland returned census forms using the Irish language in 2011.
Neither of Sinn Fein’s women leaders, Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill, can speak Irish fluently and appear embarrassed and struck dumb on news videos when faced with questions posed in Irish by journalists. Martin McGuinness did not promote an ILA during his previous 10 years as deputy first minister in government in Stormont not least because he could not speak Irish fluently either. Gerry Adams appears hesitant and uncertain when attempting to use basic Irish phrases.
Sinn Fein’s sudden decision to make an ILA a ‘red line’ precondition for the return of Stormont is the cultural equivalent of the IRA’s Canary Wharf bombing - an explosive device designed to force capitulation by unionists.
Sinn Fein appears to be a leftward political movement when in the company of Cuban or Latin American or British Labour party friends.
Sinn Fein appears to be a rightward political movement when in the company of North American Republican party friends.
Sinn Fein appears to be a culturally separatist movement when in the company of Basque or Catalan friends.
Sinn Fein appears to be a centrist movement in the Republic of Ireland where it wants to partner with the socially conservative and nationalistic Fianna Fail party.
Sinn Fein appears to be a rightist movement in the Republic of Ireland where it would consider partnering with the even more socially conservative and right-wing Fine Gael party.
Sinn Fein appears to be a pro-Catholic movement in parts of Ireland where there is a socially conservative electorate.
Sinn Fein appears to be a liberal reformist movement when confronted by LGBT and pro-abortion activists.
Sinn Fein appears to want to both date and hate Protestant unionists in Northern Ireland.
Sinn Fein was historically headquartered in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. In the early and mid-1970s, the Belfast Brigade of the IRA moved to centralise control of the IRA and of Sinn Fein in west Belfast.
Sinn Fein’s recent appointment of a Dublin-based leader, Mary Lou McDonald, once more raises the tensions between west Belfast and remote Dublin with consequences as yet unforeseen.
Despite the fact that McDonald is the titular leader of Sinn Fein and is deputised by Northern Ireland’s Michelle O’Neill, the influence of the IRA’s Army Council has not gone away.
Sinn Fein’s in-house comedian, abstentionist Westminster MP Barry McElduff, was forced to resign recently after he poked fun at the Kingsmills massacre of 10 Protestants by the IRA, one of many actions the IRA has never formally admitted.
Sinn Fein claims it has recently transferred its support to the IRE - integrity, respect and equality - as the basis of its campaigning in Northern Ireland.”
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He had to ring that lady privately today to apologise..LOL
How did he get her number…?
Data protection etc..🧐
I suffered an MCA stroke in February I've written to him on several occasions without reply I live in damp accomodation for the past 2 years isolated from public transport due to multiple hospital appointments the guy on the high Vis vest told a councillor from fine Gael when I said I was isolated from services sure there is always click and collect people can drop shopping to me fine Gael has no interest in people who are marginalized and isolated if your disabled in this country
Sorry to hear that Finbarr
I agree they just dont care - and most fools will probably vote for them again
None of them, or their staff, answer emails
Your Irish that's what the problem is
All our mainstream parties only want to help asylum seekers not the Irish
You know which way to vote next week
Nationalist
Sin go dona.
that lady has more back bone then the government put together well done to her 👏
Remember he got into power on the 12th count and done a deal with his party’s arch enemy to keep Sinn Fein out of power
And let's we forget his 19th variant of COVID when he was the Health Minister for the Country
His election slogan is 'a new energy'.... and it's the same old bollocks again and again.
@@MolloyPolloy ain’t that the truth 100% bollox 👍
But worse and obvious
😮
But it's a new energy in the same old bollocks, that's the difference.
A new enemy
This fellas talent does not go beyond making tea and coffee, the fact that he's taioseach is worthy of a monty python sketch.
What Simon Harris did to that lady was unforgivable. He treated her with utter contempt like she was just a piece of dirt. The work and effort care workers put into their work in this country is noting short of heroic. However they never have, and probably never will get the praise and thanks they so much deserve, at least not from this government. The way he looked down at that lady disgusts me.
Carers should get time off, via free respite care for the people they care for.
Perfect example of disconnect
Shameful Behaviour!
Followed by a grovelling apology the next day.
He cannot handle any criticism, he runs away and only stops short at calling people names.
He was dying to call her Far Right wasn't he....!
Itching to.@@MrJoecool9999
Spot on see him running from the burkes 😂😂
If his brother is autistic he's more the likely himself, would explain the lack of emotion I have that myself sadly at times, though common decency you'd think he'd be able to understand empathy at his age if he does indeed have it
@@gregorytreacy7085 terrible assumption to make .an insult to autistic people .
he's just a terrible person that's all.
I'm glad you're covering Irish politics aswell lately Rob😅
Keep up the Irish ☘️ content please 🙏 We don’t have that many people here online asking proper questions, plus you got the accent and how to say the words just right; many outside Ireland 🇮🇪 don’t!
@@richardbutler4488 I agree he would a great political analyst, very articulate and great vocals too!
@eoghandoyle162 If he thinks Harris will struggle to retain his seat he hasn't a clue about Irish politics
@@mungoboomdecker9711Really? Thats funny because during the last general election Taoiseach Varadkar struggled to retain his seat and was only reelected on the 7th count. It's unlikely Harris will lose his seat but it certainly isn't impossible.
@@mungoboomdecker9711 I've read a preview for Wicklow constituency and sadly it appears Harris is as safe as houses there, at least in terms of remaining a TD.
You're not on Tiktok now Simon, this is the real world.
A rattled snake...
Fine Gael doesn't care about the People all they want is multi millionaire's. No one should vote for this person (Harris) or fine Gael . He showed his and his party's true colours. Fair play to this young lady 👏 she should run next time I'd vote for her 💯👍
Good afternoon Max and all here. Really car crashing! He can't show empathy because he doesn't know what it is
The budget raised disability allowance (from January 2025) by €12, to €244 (the poverty threshold is €291.50 in Ireland) this coupled with the lack of therapeutic support is pushing families into financial despair. There are thousands of people living in institutions or who are living at home with family carers who could and need to move into a home of their own but nothing has been done. A tokenistic one of payment of €400 is not going to help disabled people living well below the poverty line, and marginalised carers already carrying the weight of broken systems.
If Simon Harris really cared about Disabled people he has a funny way of showing it, nothing but empty words and promises and a weak hand shake.
It's currently €248 and will go up to €260. Unemployment benefit and sick benefit is €232. Still nowhere near enough if you don't have a spouse or some other way of means.
@@dcar I double checked the amount (figures taken from Citizens Information) and I had made a mistake, which I have corrected thank you. But we agree it's "nowhere near enough" given the poverty threshold.
According to Citizens Information the Personal rate for disability allowance is currently €232 (not €248) which is the same as the max Personal rate for Jobseeker's Benefit and Illness Benefit and will rise for all three by €12 to €244 in Jan 2025.
Vote them OUT!
We keep trying that, but when the elections are rigged, its hard
Never worked a day in his life , professional waffler
I can think of a very similar word to describe him.
Professional wanker
Pure weasel so he is, has that same nasal tone as Leo
I think waffler is too kind.
Makes tea becomes Tea Sock. What a country
Simon Harris has showed his true self .
What an obnoxious little weasel.
Carers play a vital roll in keeping hospital beds free ,
Its back breaking and heartbreaking work that pays minimum amount, shocking still is that its means tested.
The audacity of that man to stand there and blatantly lie to this lady.
Why would he care she’s not rich
That’s a silly statement. His father was a taxi driver and he got interested in politics as a teenager to advocate for his younger brother who he was caring for with his mother. He’s a totally genuine compassionate man and he suffers from Crohn’s disease. I think the lady is so angry and stressed with her caring issues that she was unfair to him. He’s well aware of the problem and I think he really does his best. We expect an awful lot in this country. Life is tough but it’s much worse in other countries. I’m sorry that this one instance has been blown up so much. We really need decent people like him running the country.
Just as well his younger brother did not have Scoliosis then
Followed by a grovelling apology the next day.
He is still 1/200 to be re-elected in Wicklow
Sure isn’t that the typical way of a politician thinking they can pave over everything and it will be ok. “I’m sorry, oh by the way would ye vote for us”. How may times can these spineless con artists just say a fake apology and move on. They are a joke
Clear evidence that he is not equipped to be a public leader in any way, let alone of the country. No empathy, no care, no interest... until he's caught out. Cue the grovelling apology
Some people are saying he was just tired. If anything, fatigue is just revealing who he truly is. No one behaves like this if they aren’t LIKE this.
A great advert for Chewits
I might grab a pack. They're new, yes? 😆
When he had to think on his feet and show empathy, away from the prepared sound bites and spin, he is seen as an empty husk and totally insincere.
Total gaslighting.
we need FG + FF out, asap + now.
people need to really wake up + stop voting for these.
But who is going to match FF and FG numbers Aontu, SPBP, Independents Ireland, Soc Dems, Labour, Green Party? None of them are going to unless they are going to have like 5 parties in a coalition it will take months for them to agree to each others mandates. Even if they agree.
No alternative
Saying theres no point and theres no alternative is part of the problem.
Anyone is genuinely better than these people.
@@bernardmolloy6241 I fundamentally disagree that "anyone" would be better Sinn Fein and pbp are only capable of being even worse... marxism
Like water off a ducks back.
This should spell the end of his campaign trail ! Shameful!
Goes with Harris' behaviour during the debate where he was narky arrogant and not in control.
Not good traits for a Taoiseach.
He’s obviously anxious now because next week he may well be unemployed because in reality a man with his track record is unemployable!
@@KRAZEEIZATIONI was thinking the same thing
Very very true
So this shows that he is like that and not that he had a long tiring day.
He is arrogant in his normal day to day demeanor.
@roisinmalone3015 I want him to explain how a let's say nurse of 20years with a contract can't get a mortgage but a uni drop short term TD can afford a big mortgage if technically a politician is an agency temp worker?
@ he and the rest of his party buddies are all living on easy street and so far out of touch with people it’s beyond comprehension. The fact they tried to get rid of any assistance for caters in one of the March referendums says it all. He made an apology video now but had to add his own family into it. This has backfired and the final straw to end his career with luck.
Thank you, at last someone spoke out for us carers, fair play to her
Fine Gael out, no empathy, no integrity, no heart, abandoning the most vulnerable people in society👎..
Max, i have just gone off you, big time, After following you for years on these pages, you have lost me
as a watcher and a listener, I am convinced that you are a supporter of Sinn Fein, and I don't like that
one bit.Sinn Fein Is a party that doesn't recognize our state.
@@johnkirwan1777what state would that be????
@@johnkirwan1777 Max is Irish and can support whatever Political party he chooses. He doesn't need your permission.
High on ENERGY - Low on EMPATHY
Ask him about the Children's Hospital 🤬🏴🇮🇪
The 20th most expensive building in the world.
@@mildlydispleased3221 That mess is down to Bertie Ahern
First, wrong location on the Mater site where Bertie worked as a Clerical Officer before becoming the local TD.
Second, curved design with loads of waves.
Third, wrong alternative location on the St. James site with the same curved design with loads of waves. Best location, would have been the Connolly Memorial site just off the M50.
The NCH was always going to be a poison chalice for whoever was left holding the baby.
@@chattyrat3354 Harris said the other day that the buck stops with him over the hospital debacle. He didn't apologise or do anything worthwhile to try to remedy anything, just claimed that it was his responsibility. Whoever signed off on an eliptical building needs to go back to nursery school for a proper education.
No script no answer
He just oozes warmth and humanity doesn't he.
He suddenly forgot he's on camera
I work in the disability sector. We're always the last to get the pay rises ect. No Christmas bonus for us either. On top of that we're owed a fair bit of back pay for sleepover rates. Do you think we'll get this before Christmas... Unlikely.
That woman was completely right. Fair play to her.
Ya got a 100 present of a person that u caught out fair play yo u for voicing ur concerns to Simon Harris lovely jubilee I was a caregiver for my partner &love of my life got no help of the she passed 4 years ago shame on that government 😒😒😒
Empathy costs nothing Simon Harris has no excuse !
You have to be a bot right? The amount of comments you post in such a short time makes you seem unhinged... or a bot.
@@Jcolbert123 or perhaps just feels strongly about this issue?
Narcissistic Personality Disorder. That's his excuse.
Simone is a utter yes man...he should order a backbone from amazon
Sorry... they're out of stock! 🦴
@annamariapurcell4454 yes i understand....probs all bought up by all the no hopers in politics here
He will get in regardless too many sheep in this kip
@dazndots yes yer soo right
Too little, too late Mr H! You are doomed thanks to one brave lady.
You cannot expect empathy from someone who does not have empathy....
And no Common Sense at that
He's a psychopath. He can play the role of having emphaty, but only if you're gullable will you believe it.
@@roymunson1 I would have said sociopath but he probably has killed loads of people through his incompetence.
Both carers and the disabled/elderly have been treated badly by this government. Most people are working poor, living pay cheque to pay cheque. Inflation is such that people can not afford food. Wages have not increased to meet the ever rising rents. Over 75% of the TDs are landlords, so a cap on rents does not interest them. There will be rioting in the streets if people continue to suffer as their concerns are unheard and their basic needs are unmet.
Solidarity from a Scottish carer. Loathe these politicians
The idiots will still vote for him...and I'm saying that as an Irish person 😢
@@tracydriscoll7689 I’m Irish too - I won’t be voting for the big 2 , but I agree
Yup. A clever man once summed up our voting logic for me: Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.
Idiots in your view. I am not an FG person.
The government we have is far from perfect, loads of faults. But to be honest, I would prefer to have them at the helm than a SF led government considering the result of the US election. Our entire economic model is under serious threat, as are hundreds of thousands of jobs.
@@frankcartymaybe we should look to try a different economic model then instead of suckling at the teat of a basket case nation who just elected a fascist
This bloke should not be let anywhere near the privilege of public office. He deserves to be voted OUT.
He lost our family votes, when he supported Helen Mcentee. Jesus wept 😢. How could he??
Not only supported her, he appointed her (arguably the most incompetent politician ever) the deputy leader of the party 🫣
@yermanoffthetelly absolutely agree 👍 thanks for your response 💚💚
@yermanoffthetelly the calibre of public representation in politics in terms of mcentee in particular , has never dipped so low , an actual insult to the electorate.
The best thing she could have done , after having two full maternity leaves off ( another joke ) , was to literally leave , and us all alone and away from her fads , notions and pc styled wordings .
Harris covered for her role , if I'm right , when she had the full maternity leave ( never done till then to date for a ' minister ' ) off . Then she went and same again .
This is what people need to realise with her. Dragged into politics, well above her station, winging it , literally at the country and tax payers expense.
@@yermanoffthetellyshe had varadkar summon Harris to cover her on her two baby breaks , never done b4 in government led ministers . Now Harris returning the clique led back scratching .
She epitomises all that is wrong with our set up here.
It s pretty sad really as it's at the real people's expense .
Something a politician will always lack is empathy.
that was terrible - his whole body langue was horrid!
That's Simon Harris in a nutshell, a Taoiseach of our country, elected on the 16th count without reaching the quota. Fine Gael like the Tories in England in power for nearly 14 yrs, are a disgrace.
Agree 👍
@@davidcooney3100 it is inevitable any party too long in power becomes arrogant
The count you get elected on means absolutely nothing. You are elected or not, he was elected. FG topped the first preference votes in Wicklow, they ran 3 candidates. Simon got the second hightest number of first preference votes. The number of counts relates to the number of candidates that are on the ballet paper, the more candidate, the more counts requires when one is eliminated.
@frankcarty you don't have to explain PR voting system to me, Harris is still the scrappings of the barrel.
@@frankcarty Are you being paid by FG or something? The way you're bootlicking your way through the comment section I'd almost say you are. And FG only topped the first preference votes because they ran three candidates. The three of them combined only got 1% more than the single SF candidate.
This woman is a hero and she probably brought down Fianna Gael. Shame on Simon Harris .
Agree with everything ,as a only daughter I tried to get cares for my 89 year old dad I'm a school warden ,I had no holidays in 6 years ,I was told because of my hours ,I did not qualify, I saved the state a fortune like so many, we will never be recognised, funny how they give themselves a rise every year ,shameful. 😢😢😢
He said there was 18 different variants of covid before c19 existed while minister of health. He later said he made a boo boo!
And his boss at the time Leo was making Mean Girl jokes while addressing the nation during the pandemic and the elderly suffering in the nursing homes. FG don’t care about anyone earning under 200k
This typifies the attitude of the Two largest parties in Ireland (FF and FG) - Doesnt matter , who cares , if we dont get in now itll be our turn next time or well do a deal and go into coalition with FF anyway . Too long in power breeds arrogance. Ill be voting SF
Agree 💯👍
@@amcc5887 We have a unique breed of incompetent politicians in Ireland - Theres loads of money - and they dont seem to know how to spend it.
Longest emergency waiting times in europe , ongoing (and severe) housing crisis. FAAAAAR tOOO long in power THEY DONT CARE.
I’m not going to ether because of the way they are going.
But I won’t be S F either because of how they are doing the same as the others
A vote for the armalite then.
There is no good option in Irish politics, you have: The Conservative-Liberal party, the Liberal-Conservative party, and far-left populists with a history of blowing people up.
All of the mainstream options are terrible.
The carer's issue is big and very sore with the population this election round. Whether they like it or not the politicians cannot dodge the bullet on this issue for much longer. I am surprised that Simon Harris fumbled the ball here given his interest in disability issues.
An absolutely useless minister for Health...
A car crash indeed
SHAME ON HIM!!!!!
Vote him and his ilk out of power... 😡
Shame on you that young lady should not even talk to him very rude he walked away from the Burke family as well 😊very strange indeed 😕 🤔 god save Ireland
God bless her ,thank you
The election over here is like an extended episode of father Ted
Without the laughs.
On paper, Ireland is one of the richest countries in Europe but not for joe public.
GDP is fantasy. The real economy is in deep trouble.
Good for you for standing up for yourself and showing everyone what he is really made off.
More Irish stuff, please. Count Harris has as much charisma as a corpse.
Hes a teaboy! He signed off on a 1billion project as minister of health for a childrens hospital and its unfinished now at 2.5billion and counting!
He's a complete incompetent. He signed off on the new children's hospital with a price tag of 800 million, it's now cost over 2 billion. He's a empty suited dunce and an embarrassment
Reptile he is...shown his true colours
He actually would've gained more respect if he held his hands up and said "you're right i should have included carer's"
Instead he chose the politicians way and just dismissed everything she said.
There are three classes of carers.
1. The home carer who provides care for a family member. They are paid directly by DSP and any changes in rates payable are, as a rule, set by the budget. They got increases in this year's budget.
2. A section 38 employee, who works as a carer in an institutional or home setting who is employed by a body that is contracted by the HSE "for the provision of a health or personal social service". These carers are regarded as public sector workers whose pay is increased in line with collective bargaining arrangements agreed between the Public Service Committee of ICTU and the Government. Public sector workers, including all section 38 carers, got an increase in pay on 1 October 2024 as part of the 2024-2026 Public Service Pay Agreement.
3. A section 39 employee, who works as a carer in an institutional or home setting who is employed by a body that provides "assistance to any person or body that provides or proposes to provide a service similar or ancillary to a service that the Executive may provide". These carers are not regarded as public sector workers and therefore do not necessarily benefit from collective bargaining arrangements agreed between the Public Service Committee of ICTU and the Government.
According to RTÉ, she is a section 39 employee. Section 39 employees have a valid grievance with regard to pay arrangements, but this is an IR / HR issue between employers and employees (and their Unions) as opposed to a social protection issue that is covered by the budget.
Disgusting disgrace, he is his contempt for the Irish people is astonishing
Harris cannot handle any criticism, all he wants is for people to tell him how good he is.
That rabbit in the headlights look he gave is priceless.
Even as a smooth politician, his way with people is diabolical, like that man on Grafton St., last week, show empathy, even if that means being eaten…
He makes Mr. Bean look sophisticated.
Optics are real. Regardless, he will top the poll. The most unworthy person ever to hold the office.
He didn't top the poll last time even..
Typical behaviour really!
He is a Creep. He showed his true colours on 25th and 26/5/18 anyway.
Not his only maskslip.
Shame on you Harris your utter distain for the ordinary Irish people is sickening!!!!
Spent 4 years making a dogs dinner out of a Family & carers Referendum & only got got the support of the opposition & Govt paid Ngos
I'm not surprised by the arrogance but enraged by it.
Shame upon him. His flippant and patronising attitude towards someone at the coalface of supporting our most disadvantaged. This is your Taoiseach?
Dude's the leader of a centre-right party that has always looked after the interests of the rich because they believe rich people are better people and the poor should be happy to be ruled by their betters.
It'll be another coalition between ff/fg again unfortunately, id bet my house on it,the younger generation need to vote,and vote that conservative coalition out,until that happens, nothing will change 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤦🤦
We want to vote but so many of us are being forced to leave :(
Polls aren't looking great at the moment to get them out but you're right. Young people I talk to act disaffected but won't vote, which exacerbates the issue. Even if no one represents you properly, at least vote for someone that isn't an incumbent vulture.
Too bad no real postal votes 🗳 in Ireland and with 21 days notice of a date in Harris’s diary months ago, they had to open up postal vote applications to day 19 which was the Sunday of the same Friday weekend the election was called. Anyway even if you qualify for a postal vote 🗳 it would be very impractical to apply for one in such a tight weekend window, plus a very narrow set of the electorate qualify anyway.
Also Irish ☘️ Citizens living abroad have almost no say either as they don’t qualify for voting from abroad; and trust me there is a lot of young Irish away from the island to escape the oppression of their own born, breed and highly educated youth (anyone really under 40) whom after 2008 were basically given the two fingers to.
Of course they had the brains 🧠 which the political class abandoned in that bust, and they created a pyramid scheme of over inflated property prices and rents, just to keep the bankers and international funds happy, plus the political class seem to love 💕 their new found non Irish ☘️ international friends, whom basically are now being imported in to keep the pyramid scheme going.
The political class ensure they all have extra cushy retirement jobs, working again the domestic native population, basically if your outside the cushy club, best of luck to you 😊
Max, We do not want to see the Rishi managed encounters introduced in Ireland.
The man's behaviour was lousy. He later apologised and I hope he really learns from this lady when their meeting takes place.
he is an adult - he should know how to treat another one!
He is a Despicable SHAMELESS Cold Hearted LIAR.
Can a grown adult that age learn empathy and decency? They're usually qualities you have from childhood or not at all.
He only apologised later as he was caught being an absolute fanny on camera.
His repeated attempts to gaslight her was disgusting.