Eoin Hayes has been suspended from the Social Democrats just two weeks after being elected for the first times as a TD – but why?
has been suspended from the Social DemocratsBetween 2015 and 2017, Dublin Bay South TD Eoin Hayes worked as a strategist for US data firm Palantir Technologies which builds “platforms for integrating, managing, and securing data”.When elected as a councillor in June this year, Deputy Hayes wrote in his declaration of interests that he had received company shares as part of his remuneration package at Palantir.
“So, you can't in one breath criticise the Government for inaction in relation to Israel and Gaza, while at the same time, one of your party members from a company whose share price, by the way, has increased exorbitantly since October 7.”“If you look at the Social Democrats line on this, go back to November 2023, where they're saying that the state should divest themselves from companies involved in Israel,” he said.
“So you just simply were never going to have a scenario whereby they would be able to defend this position.
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