The mechanics of political grift and control of democracy in Ireland, and how technocracy is now built in
In the Republic of Ireland, the population is circa 5,5,000,000
There are 32,000 NGOs operating in the country.
That is 1 NGO for every 172 people. That’s bad enough.
The funding for this “de facto” arm of government runs at 11% of National GDP at around a total of 56 Billion euro (on average an NGO is funded between 82% to 85% of the their total income by the State).
Of the 32000 NGOS about 11,500 are registered Charities
In 2024 State funding for all NGOs totalled circa €48 Billion to pay mostly pay wages of
Part Time Staff: 125,000 NGO staff, about 25,000 are Non Irish Focussed (NIF) NGO staff.
Full time Staff: 289,000 NGO Staff; 31,500 staff are NIF NGO staff
Therefore, there is a total of circa 414,000 headcount in the NGO sector of which 56K staff employed in the NIF NGO Sector
The total Irish labour (being conservative counting all between 15 and 89 years of age**) is 2.8 million**
The Total NGO workforce is running at circa 14% of the total labour force
Add to the NGO sector a further 425,000 directly employed in the Public Sector ( nurses doctors teacher civil service local authorities etc)
Then 839, 000 out of the total labour work in a public sector role or a role funding by the State, equating to 24% of the electorate total.
Political outcomes of a sustainable, but anti-democratic, control by the government and by extension the EU and any other external agencies.
Politically when the government says it consults the Irish people on difficult or important decisions, it is from the NGO sector that the overwhelming participation in that consultation process is invited and is drawn,
This NGO sector continues to grow as a political wedge. Non-Irish Focus (NIF) Charities account for 13% of all Irish Charities; employ 10% fulltime and 16% part-time employees in NGO sector. There were no NIF NGOs detected as registered in 2019, but emerged as 9% of the charities registration in 2020 and 13% registered charities in 2024.
We are now aware from Parliamentary Questions that in 2025, State funding amounted to €6.3 Billion euros, and this is just to run the total NGO organisations (inc. NIF) , this does not include or account for any social welfare payments and ancilliary State supports (e.g., education, housing or health)costs attaching to NIF NGO clients,
There are 3.7 million eligible voters in Ireland, but there is as can seen a huge government positive political wedge already built into the democratic system already, Which explains the 15 years of lack of change in regime and the facilitation of an authoritarian overreach by government parties.
This explains why the government and civil service elite are able to ignore the electorate, because with proportional representation voting, a majority for the status quo is also effectively built in. 30 to 35% of the electorate voting for you will gaurantee power in government, this can also be achieved on occasions with as litle as between 25 and 30% of the electorate vote.
It also means that external agencies (EU, WHO,UN, WEF, IMF etc etc) find it extremely simple to capture a parliament of 175 seats, and cabinet of 15 Ministers and an aditional 23 Junior Ministers. A total of 39 ministerial roles, where only 15 have full executive powers.
Power capture over a cabinet and therefore a government, only effectively requires the capture of the Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Tánaiste Deputy Prime Minister), Minister for Finance, Minister for Justice, Attorney General (non-ministerial role), Minister for Social Protection.
Of these, only 5 plus the Attorney General (appointed by the Taoiseach), would be required to capture the effective governance of the country. Three of these are WEF alumni or soon to be WEF alumni. And the government now funds effectively all main print, radio, and TV media who have and dont really challenge any of the above.
Corruption potential and reward if captured ?
Well, while obviously no claim of corruption is being made here, but at a minimum a conflict of interest existed wherreby the last Minister for Finance secured a role Managing Director and Chief Knowledge Officer at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. — effectively the number two position at the institution (under the President). paying 600K dollars (incl. benefits) per annum with the World Bank.
As Ireland’s Minister for Finance, he announced and recommended a state contribution (Irish taxpayer funds) to the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) replenishment: Amount: €141.4 million (about $161 million at the time). Date Announced: 24 April 2025.
This was Ireland’s contribution to a multilateral funding round for the World Bank’s concessional lending arm, which supports the world’s poorest countries.
It represented a 33.5% increase over Ireland’s previous commitment. Opposition parties (e.g., Sinn Féin and Social Democrats) criticised the decision, noting it was €10 million more than the World Bank had requested from Ireland (officials reportedly recommended a lower or baseline amount). This occurred about 7 months before Donohoe resigned to take a senior paid role at the World Bank
The main government oversight body is the Senate which 55 senators 11 of whom are directly selected by the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) the rest come from various social and vocational sectoral panels, but these are effectively indirectly controlled and in the gift of the larger governmental political parties.
Voting won’t change this, nor how governmental system and civil service (legacy structures bult for domination and pacification) are still in effect colonial structure, and as we can see from the above, can be easily colonised by external agencies and or States. Essentially, in my view, a root and branch reform and restructure was never undertaken post Independence. Ireland should have aimed for soimething similar to that of Switzerland and in my humble still should do so. The only question is one of time to complete versu time to install the AI / WEF voting across the EU. So the first act needs to be withdrawal from the yoke.