On Friday's version of 'Déise Today', Damien was speaking to Martin Kenneally, senior lecturer in Economics at UCC.
Martin wrote a report in which he believes that Irish insurance claims and compensation are not high due to people wanting more, but instead it is due to Irish accidents being more severe.
He says that due to accidents in Ireland being more severe than in Britain, this has caused this 'compensation culture'.
If you want to listen to that interview, you can just click here.
https://soundcloud.com/wlrfmwaterford/deise-today-7th-june-does-ireland-have-an-insurance-problem
Also on Friday's version of 'Déise Today', Damien was speaking to two members of the new Waterford City and County Council to discuss the mayoralty issue and the new pacts that are taking place within Waterford council.
There is a new pact within the council with Labour, Sinn Féin, the Green Party and various Independents against Fianna Fail and Fine Gael.
This has also caused issues on who will be the newly elected mayor of Waterford with at the moment of writing John Pratt being highly tipped to be the new mayor.
John came onto ‘Déise Today’ this morning to discuss the new pact and declined to comment on whether he’d be the new mayor of Waterford instead wanting to talk about the pact and what this can do for Waterford.
Damien was also talking to Fianna Fail councillor James Tobin who is not apart of this new pact and wanted to make it clear that Fianna Fail were not invited to the table for this. This was refuted by text by Sinn Féin councillor Declan Clune who texted into the show to say that all councillors were asked to join, but Fine Gael and Fianna Fail refused.
If you want to hear that interview, you can just click here.
https://soundcloud.com/wlrfmwaterford/deise-today-7th-june-what-is-gonna-happen-with-the-waterford-council-pact
If you want to listen to the full version of 'Déise Today', you can just click here.
https://soundcloud.com/wlrfmwaterford/deise-today-7th-june-2019
