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Dublin City Council is giving up on stewards and will now install flower beds around the Molly Malone statue to deter tourists from groping it. Will the natural barriers work - or is it just part of the tourist experience? 📺 #TonightVMTV | 10pm | Virgin Media One

🗣️ "The perception of Ireland as an anti-semitic country is hugely on the rise in the United States." @LarryPDonnelly on how the Occupied Territories Bill is being received by US media and politicians. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ "I really believe that if they show that leadership, other countries will then follow." @LNBDublin says that Ireland not only has a legal and moral obligation to pass the Occupied Territories Bill, but can also lead the way for change. #TonightVMTV

ICYMI: MetroLink is finally getting a €2bn boost under the National Development Plan — but with a potential upper-limit cost of over €23bn, questions remain over its viability. 📺 Catch the conversation: youtu.be/SkeEC4xD1Bw #TonightVMTV | @VirginMediaNews

🗣️ "This is providing those businesses with opportunity to survive…" 🗣️ "…And that's more important than the person that can't put on their heating?" @kierancuddihy questions the Government’s VAT cut for hospitality over cost of living supports. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ "When you get to 15–20% tariffs, you could see those surpluses wiped out altogether." @DanielTMurray warns that US tariffs could pose a major threat to the Government's Summer Economic Statement, potentially erasing projected budget surpluses. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ "The point is that we've been talking about this for decades and the only thing that's changed is actually the cost of it." @Farrell_Mairead reacts to the Government's €2 billion allocation for Metrolink in the latest National Development Plan. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ "I think if you went in to every project thinking about it like that, 'what's the worst case scenario', you might not build anything." @DanielTMurray | #TonightVMTV

🗣️ "11 Children's Hospitals is what we're talking about possibly spending on a rail line." @kierancuddihy and @EmerHigginsTD discuss the potential cost of Metrolink under the Government’s NDP. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ "A lot of this is actually going to be eaten up by that inflation." Despite a headline €30 billion boost to the National Development Plan, @DanielTMurray says much of the additional spending will be swallowed by projected inflation in the construction sector. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ "Why is there no acknowledgement as to what happened in the last NDP? What didn't get delivered, what the barriers were? @Farrell_Mairead has criticised the Government’s NDP, saying it fails to account for what went wrong last time and lacks essential detail. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ "We've heard all this rhetoric before...why should we believe the rhetoric now?" @kierancuddihy challenges the Government’s promises on housing delivery, questioning why targets should be believed after years of missed benchmarks. #TonightVMTV

"Now the department has to make that out into their project plan for their own department." @EmerHigginsTD explains why the National Development Plan doesn't list specifics on where spending will be allocated - leaving that detail to each department to determine. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “The Government have given two fingers to the population,” People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith delivered a blistering critique of the coalition’s performance ahead of the Dáil’s summer break. 📺 Catch up on #TonightVMTV on Virgin Media Play.