It's a disgrace that someone on a TD's package can get legal aid. Full stop.But if the court decides he is entitled to free legal aid based on their criteria who the heck are you or i to pass judgement and say he shouldnt be getting it? Also he isnt a solictor so you cant suggest that just because he isnt a dope or destitute then he shouldnt be getting the free legal aid.
Let me put it to you like this and i look forward to your reply on this: why do you think "its a disgrace" that he Is getting free legal aid, assuming that he is entitled to it?
As is a sustainable economy which can pay for it all in the longer term.Suspension of water charges , a review of public sector pay , rent supplement increases et al - at least the thought of a centre right party is rapidly disappearing !
Money for all by the looks of it. What could go wrong
Either have FG or Labour or any of the other parties. That's because the electorate haven't learned either and they elect the TD's. We get the government we deserve.Well that's FF for you, they still haven't learned from their past mistakes
Either have FG or Labour or any of the other parties. That's because the electorate haven't learned either and they elect the TD's. We get the government we deserve.
This is true, so what is the answer vote for independents only, who are really only interested in their local area rather then the country as a whole
I'm not sure what the answer is, but I don't that is really true of Shane Ross, Finian McGrath, or Katherine Zappone, to name a few?This is true, so what is the answer vote for independents only, who are really only interested in their local area rather then the country as a whole
FG proposed moving to a list system at the election before last but once in power ignored the idea.I'm not sure what the answer is, but I don't that is really true of Shane Ross, Finian McGrath, or Katherine Zappone, to name a few?
Has anyone told Michael Ring of FG, for example, or Sean Haughey of FF, for example, that there is an Ireland outside their constituencies?
I'm sure people could name other big party TDs renowned for their 'local' touch.
Even with the big parties, you have situations where party colleagues run against party colleagues, this encourages 'localism'.
Even a TD or minister who wants to be a national not a local politician can't afford to take eye off the constituency.
FG proposed moving to a list system at the election before last but once in power ignored the idea.
As long as we have the current electoral system we will keep electing local councillors to our parliament.
FG proposed moving to a list system at the election before last but once in power ignored the idea.
As long as we have the current electoral system we will keep electing local councillors to our parliament.
That doesn't change the other problem which is that the populace want the state to be their mammy.
Of course the populace want the state to be their mammy. Ireland has the same relevance in the EU as Bedfordshire. In the wash of the 1916 centenary celebrations recently lots of us think we are members of a political world force. The reality is we are an EU backwater. Sooner or later we will become a playground of the rich (look at the way we're churning out golf courses). Also look at the voting population of County Kerry. It is not a county of gombeens; they know how to vote and probably have less pot-holes per capita than say Cork city where I dodge road jacuzzis every morning while driving to work. If I could vote for a Healy-Rae instead of a Martin or Coveney, I would. Isn't God on their side?
Leper , " road jacuzzis " - brilliantly descriptive !
In an effort to defang the various parties of the left the prospective Government & FF have veered substantially to the left in the agreed plan for Governance
Is pure populism a move to the Left or just buying people with their own money?Leper , " road jacuzzis " - brilliantly descriptive !
In an effort to defang the various parties of the left the prospective Government & FF have veered substantially to the left in the agreed plan for Governance
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