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Good people, Bad policies
Standing idly by
English - June 01, 2022 11:00 - 12 minutes - 8.69 MBPolitics News Science Social Sciences politics local global community ireland parish councillor wicklow bray Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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"I believe that good people can create bad policies. I don't believe in attacking individuals but I will always challenge proposals or policies that are not rooted in social justice or have not been developed with a human rights lens"
Daisy explores the tension between popularity and good policy in the political arena. He wonders what has the most currency and what type of expectations are coming from the electorate in terms of those who occupy seats of power.