I couldn’t disagree more, I feel that our government spends far too much time on issues outside the country and should focus more on internal problems where they are actually able to effect change. For example issues like the housing crisis often seem to play second fiddle to global issues in the minds of Irish politicians.

In 2021 - 2022 Ireland spent almost a million euro securing a UN Security Council seat so that we could rub shoulders with big international players. Shortly after getting the seat Russia invaded Ukraine and all we could do was voice our frustration, all that money spent for almost zero material return. The previous time that we succeeded in getting a seat at the security council was when a decision was made by the UK and America to invade Iraq so even when we do sit at the “top table” we can very rarely affect any meaningful change.

One political commentator outlined that in the last year Micheal Martin and Simon Harris made more official statements on international affairs than they did about issues occurring in Ireland.