It’s Kerry v China as the Healy-Raes look east



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There is more than a touch of the Skibbereen Eagle on Danny Healy-Rae this weather, as he continues to watch China from his eye on Dáil Éireann.

Or Buses-Buses Healy-Rae, as we discovered later. That’s what they call it at the United Nations.

Both his contributions to the coronavirus debate this month have included a cut in the Chinese and their handling of the viral outbreak. The first was in early April, when he thanked the Government and medical director Tony Holohan for their “massive” work. But he was not so interested in the medical team that came from the East.

“I see that Taoiseach thanked the Chinese for the things we need, the PPE things we need. I just want to say that I would also appreciate the Chinese if they had kept their virus. We would not need the robes and equipment we are looking for now if that had happened. “

Four weeks later, in Dáil and Buses-Buses, Healy-Rae’s opinion has not changed a bit.

He wanted the Taoiseach to explain why he does not demand an investigation “on how and when this virus really started in China.”

Don’t want to know the answer? All people who have suffered as a result certainly want to know.

“This virus was in China long before January 20,” he told Leo Varadkar.

“In early December, the Italians handed them some of the PPE stuff they paid for and did their best to thank them publicly. Now I ask you not to buy another bottle to contain this virus from the Chinese until we know what the truth is. “

As Confucius might say.

Eyebrows furrowed everywhere.

“Because people have a right to the truth, and I am asking the United Nations to conduct an international investigation into what happened because we need to know,” Healy-Rae said, channeling the famous 1898 Skibbereen Eagle editorial warning the hungry for land. Tsar from Russia the newspaper was in his caper.

Both men addressed the economic consequences of the Covid-19 crisis, particularly as it affects their county.

The Taoiseach did not agree to take this message to New York, probably because Ireland is still trying to win a seat on the UN Security Council, so it will not want to make waves in diplomatic circles at this time.

Great relief in Beijing.

The TD for Kerry did not use one of her two buses to travel from the Kingdom with her brother Michael on Thursday. The Healy-Raes were the two representatives appointed by the RIG (Group of Rural Independents) at this week’s only House session.

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