Mary Coughlan, Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister, recently gave an interview to BBC Hard Talk — see the Youtube videos embedded below. It heats up in the middle of the second video below and really gets going in the third section. She says:
* the bonuses of the top 640 civil servants earning more than 130,000 euros a year are part of their wages, and that’s why they can’t be cut and why they must have a lower percentage wage cut than anyone else
* her party has done nothing wrong in their handling of the economy
* the Taoiseach is looking to 2016 for an upturn, but when asked “do you mean the Irish people will have to wait six years to feel good about themselves?”, she replies: “I wouldn’t take that from the Irish people”.
I have never heard a politician behave like this! What does she mean she wouldn’t take that from the people? She is a SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE and NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND. How can such a person be in government? Is it because she known the proportional representation party list system means she can never be voted out?
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Listen to the following clip, with special attention to the section after 3 minutes and 30 seconds:
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This is the real shocker. Listen to the bit after the 5 minute mark:
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