... and he asked a very simple question, why weren't other TD's doing the same?
If all elected TDs worked on was the roads and other similar local issues, then who'd run the country? We keep electing people to run the country based on what they have achieved for the local constituency, often at the expense of others. Why do we even have local authorities?
No, if the parties did that then the public wouldn't vote for them. We'd still have local politics, just with the edge taken off it.We most definitely should not have a list system. It would be a Hobson's choice of privileged party insiders - as the ranks of quango boards are now.
No, if the parties did that then the public wouldn't vote for them. We'd still have local politics, just with the edge taken off it.
List system sounds good but as per T Mc Gibney = I have my doubts.
Uk system of number 1,s winning ,seems wrong , yet UK hasn,t collapsed.
Our PR system with multi seats per constituency ,I think works and allows disparate views.
Without Td,s having a local (parish -pump) agenda on top of national agenda , would we not end up with a senior unrepresentative Quango?
Unless I get compelling reasons I ain,t for change yet.
That first or a repeal of the 8th?
Not while those godless liberals in the Labour Party are out of office anyway!fair point Tommy. I can see no action on the 8th in the current term by any Government formation.
I felt very sorry for Ciarán Lynch who was excellent as the Chair of the Oireachtas Finance Committee and did a good job on the Banking Inquiry. He didn't get much chance to work on local issues.
Maybe if there were a list system, the people who work on national issues would have a better chance of retaining their seats.
Brendan
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