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Current Affairs at 1pm on @RTERadio1 | E-mail [email protected], text 51551 during the show, or tweet us here. #SaturdayRTE
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    Apr 2, 2022
    Fr. Peter McVerry says there's no chance we will be able to build the 35,000 houses the Govt are planning for Ukraine refugees. “I don’t think there's a hope in hell of that happening. We’ve had a crisis in housing for the past 15yrs and that crisis is turning into a nightmare.”
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    Nov 28, 2020
    A warning from @GabrielScally as COVID-19 restrictions ease to lvl 3. "If we have a very merry Christmas and meet lots of friends and relations, I fear in January and February we may be burying some of those friends and relations. That is the cruel truth of that virus..."
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    Feb 4, 2023
    Aontú leader @Toibin1 says the Govt is failing to provide communities with information around refugees and asylum seekers, which is creating a lot of anger.
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    Mar 7, 2020
    Asked by Cormac about the St Patrick's Day parade, INMO General Secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha “I think that puts too much strain on our public hospitals... After any mass gathering our hospitals are overwhelmed... I agree with @ProfJohnCrown ... Clearly it should be cancelled”
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    Oct 23, 2021
    HSE CEO @paulreiddublin says as of this morning there are currently no ICU beds for children available around the country and only 11 for adults.
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    Mar 27, 2021
    Health Minister @DonnellyStephen has asked the HSE to suspend vaccine operations at the Beacon Hospital with the exception of those people who have already been scheduled to get their vaccine at the centre. Alternative arrangements are being put in place by the HSE.
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    Apr 23, 2022
    On using vacant and derelict properties to address current housing and refugee accommodation issues Associate Prof. of Law at TCD Dr Rachael Walsh says our constitution clearly says "the State is empowered to restrict property rights to secure the common good and social justice".
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    Jun 20, 2020
    Green Party Finance Spokesperson @neasa_neasa tells @SaturdayRTE that the possibility of a ‘no deal brexit hasn’t been factored into’ the economic planning for the #PFG.@RichardbrutonTD⁩ confirms this. #SaturdayRTE
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    Jan 22, 2022
    Immunologist Prof @KingstonMills says he really thinks it was a mistake to drop the COVID certs because there is no doubt the uptake in the booster vaccine in the younger group 'has been poor’ ... ‘they [the Govt] may come to regret it’.
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    Jun 20, 2021
    The @SocDems will be bringing a motion to the Dáil next week calling for full public ownership and control of the new national maternity hospital. @WhitmoreJen tells @MrJustinMac 'the state needs to buy this land, either buy it or CPO it. A decision needs to be made quickly.'
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    Mar 28, 2020
    @loreillysf says medical staff don't want the Taoiseach to use the shipment of medical supplies arriving tomorrow as a photo opportunity #saturdayrte
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    Apr 29, 2023
    As the controversy over the 2008 purchase of a site in Limerick by Niall Collins' wife goes on, @fionamacky⁩, an Independent County Councillor spoke to ⁦@colmomongain⁩ about a lack of transparency in local authorities
    Do questions remain for Niall Collins on that field in Limerick?
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    Mar 7, 2020
    "In this situation... Sick pay becomes a question of public health... We're talking about people on low incomes, in precarious employment. We need to ensure they're not out of pocket" - Louise O'Reilly @loreillysf
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    Sep 28, 2019
    .@MaryMcAuliffe4 says history should not be optional. Actually, she says, "it should be core" and points to the weakness in British people's knowledge of their colonial past. #SaturdayRTE