Varadkar: "It's not the state's responsibility (to provide a home and an education)"

When he says "the state", he clearly means him. This is the same gadge who likes to yabber on about how much Kylie Minogue made such a difference to his existence.

He's right, he should be responsible for nothing. Because he's literally a child.

I just really wish that the people of Dublin West would ninja this individual into the political history books.

so not the state’s responsibility that people have access to healthcare, housing or an education….? Maybe Leo might put his mind to describing what responsibilities that state does have towards its people and citizens…

Because we pay an awful lot of tax that goes on education, healthcare, housing etc… so might be nice that Irish people can feel they can benefit from that..

id say Leo isn’t long for the world of politics, his mask is slipping. Some of us saw behind it from earlier on, others a lot more gullible.

On a salary of €100k, tax due is €36,378, so 36.4%. Obviously there are different bands at various thresholds in that salary, but you're correct for 99% of the population.

If you earned a million, you would be slightly over 50% at €504,603.

It seems to me that whenever someone becomes taoiseach, their electorate so love having their local TD be taoiseach that they will constantly reflect them, no matter how terrible they are. There seems to be a similar, though not as pervasive, effect for ministers.

His family and many in government won't need it, but in the meantime they'll gladly sell out us and this country to set up themselves and their families. At the moment, his government and its policies are holding many people back in life and denying them the chance to have a house of their own or to start families.

People surely know that his words have been twisted out of all context here.

Like, he’s very clearly saying that families should care for family members in the first instance, and the state steps in when needed.

If he said the opposite, that it’s the state’s job to look after people, the same cnuts would be saying that he’s trying to break up families and big government wants to run our lives.

the level of sheer hatred and stupidity on here is terrifying, and it’s even more terrifying how easily people can be fooled and whipped up into a frenzy by a thirty second clip that’s so obviously been taken out of all context

Why should facts get in the way of outrage? Also, it's pretty clear that a lot of the whingebags on here don't actually earn enough to pay the high taxation they so bitterly complain about.

You’ve twisted it out of all context.

The guy should be allowed speak his mind without hardline Catholic fundamentalists or far right lunatics tearing him apart or burning down hotels in “protest”