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GE2024A WAR OF words has broken out between the coalition parties, as Helen McEntee said that “women all over the country understand what it’s like when men try to claim credit for their work”.
It follows comments from Fianna Fáil’s Dublin Bay South candidate Jim O’Callaghan, who suggested that he had proposed many of the initiatives tha McEntee had introduced during her time in the Department of Justice.
“We need to build on the good proposals that Fianna Fáil came up with before,” he told RTÉ’s Prime Time last night.
“I commend the minister for the fact she adopted our proposal about raising the recruitment age and also the retirement was raised to 62,” he said.
In response, McEntee said last night that O’Callaghan had turned down a junior ministry in the Department of Justice and that she had “turned up day in, day out”.
O’Callaghan responded: “I’ve been far more effective as a backbench Fianna Fáil TD… than being the Minister’s assistant. I’ve been much more effective as the Fianna Fáil justice spokesperson. The Minister has adopted my proposals in respect of knife crime. She adopted my proposal in respect of the Children’s Act. She adopted my proposal in respect of recruitment. She adopted my proposals in respect of safe countries.”
Asked about McEntee’s comments in which she said women know what it’s like when men try to claim credit for their work, O’Callaghan said “no circumstances was he trying to adopt the role of the man”, stating that there were a lot of Fianna Fáil work went in to achieve those ideas, which involved people like Senators Fiona O’Loughlin and Lisa Chambers.
At a press conference earlier today, the Fianna Fáil justice spokesperson stressed that his party wants to take control of the Department of Justice in the next Government, with Fianna Fáil arguing that the country needs a “sense of urgency and leadership after 14 years of a Fine Gael Minister for Justice”.
“I believe had we had the full ministry in the Department of Justice, I believe we would have seen greater progress in the area of justice,” O’Callaghan said.
“I’m not going to personalise it to Minister McEntee, but I do think there is a benefit to help the Department of Justice under new political control and direction as it really needs a new energy within that department,” he added.
When asked if she wants to retain the job as Justice Minister, McEntee said:
“Nobody’s elected here. Nobody has been elected here. My focus over the next two weeks is to get re-elected to represent the people of Meath East. I hope that we will be in a position to return to government with Simon Harris as Taoiseach.
“Anything beyond that really is a matter for two, three, four weeks time when we see what the outcome is and what people have decided.
And I think anything beyond that is simply arrogant.
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Thank god we have eircodes
Amazon won’t be delivering with these in Ireland. They won’t even open an Irish store.
They are hiring people right now for a delivery operation in Blanchardstown
Who are they hiring? Drone operators?
And you think they will last long in America from being blasted out of the sky by the gun touting public.Be a great way for the kids to test their new machine guns.
Use parcel motel to get anything from UK that doesn’t deliver to Ireland like amazon. Great service
Is there an American version? Cheers
Family Guy, have they sorted out the customs charges and vat issues on that yet. Was looking into using MyUSA or a similar service but am worried about Revenue charging a bomb to have the package released. I believe if you keep the order to under 150 it’s ok….
@Rasputin: Are you actually asking if a commercial delivery-service provider have negotiated downwards Revenue’s tax ‘bomb’ on imports? No, of course they haven’t. Duty, usually at a rate of <4%, +23% VAT are payable on the combined cost of imported goods & shipping. So, if you want to grey import you need to ensure the foreign cost of goods plus the above charges are substantially below local cost to warrant the obvious limitation in terms of warrantee and backup.
Link? Are you sure?
Amazon don’t have stores…
More like slaves xD
Haha try dat
Baseball bat?
‘it’s illegal to have sex with them!’ Got it!
Call me old fashioned (many people do :) ) but I don’t fancy looking up at a skyline littered with bloody drones.
The future has arrived. Brilliant idea, hopefully the concept will actually work in the real world
I have no doubt that these will hit birds while they fly around or land. Can see dogs and cats attacking them too. Nice idea but there are going to be issues it is just a matter of how severe. If severe enough they will get banned.
I have nine cats and nine of them can fly, even when there’s a bird to catch as an incentive. Can’t see why a flying drone would be any different.
*none of them
I have two dogs and they have killed 8 birds in 4 months and they can’t fly either. Don’t know why it is a hard concept to grasp that drones have to land as delivery is the point.
Neighbour cat attacked my remote control helicopter when I was a kid. So all very possible.
I have a horse and he lives crashing into trees, can’t for the life of me see what could go wrong here!
“Sense-and-avoid” is fine but when it looses power gravity will kick in and I would not want to be underneath one.
I am sure though that much smarter minds than mine are working on it though.
Sense and avoid technology, is basically the drone senses something and avoids it, thanks for explaining it, because I hadn’t a clue what it meant.
These will never take off.
So in the future we will all live within 7.5 miles of an Amazon depot. The drones only have a range of 15 miles after all. And if this is the case wouldn’t a moped do just as well.
Limits on where they can fly, how far they can be from the operator etc, sorry Amazon but you are backing a loser on this one.
Sounds great but in reality, won’t be cost effective, too many possible dangers, I’m sure there will be some who would love to swipe them and launching in the land of “we’ll sue our mother for a Big Mac” – can only imagine what happens when one of these come within 20 get of a real person…
I’d bet my left nut we’ll never see amazon using these for deliveries. There’s far too many things that can go wrong
They keep droning on about this new technology but will their products fly off the shelves as anticipated?
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