Why is there a Dáil summer recess?

LpPepper

Is there a recess for any other government during summer/winter?

As if getting paid €100,000 a year to argue between one another isn't enough , they feel they derserve a summer break .

orourkeda

It takes that to count their expenses

wonderfulname

Because the dail is like a grown up version of school, spoilt little brats making rude noises and not paying a bit of attention to whats in front of them.

As such they get school holidays.

They were jealous of the teachers.. So they made their wages better, took the same breaks and got rid of children out of the Dáil.

orourkeda

To give the TD'S scrotums and vaginas time to recover from the amount of hard scratching they've had to endure.

thetonynator

This comes up in the media every single year.

Its (apparently) to do with allowing TD's bith their holidays, and time to worl in their constituencies( as if 4 days a week there wasn't enough)

In reality its due to laziness and the leftovers from the celtic tiger when politicians didn't need to work because everyone had money.

patwicklow

they need to rest there.. leather necks check up on there 2nd 3rd 4th 5th....
homes.. reinvest some more money into anglo..check out few mercs for 2011..
con and talk crap to few more people.

Lando Griffin

Because most of our laws rules and regulations were a direct copy of Englands.

AgileMyth

Deleted User wrote: »

They were jealous of the teachers.. So they made their wages better, took the same breaks and got rid of children out of the Dáil.

Don't think they've quite managed the last part yet.

Because a lot of our politicians are teachers.

ChairmanWow

Same reason secondary school kids get the summer off - so they can help out on the farm

Sharpshooter

orourkeda wrote: »

It takes that to count their expenses

And spend it.

Hank_Jones

They have a summer recess because they can.
We live in a country that expects our politicians to be lazy, corrupt and useless.
Them taking a three month break during the summer is not going to change this.

Seloth

Right...TD's do most of their work in their constitunacy....This 100 days lets them focus souly on their area's.

That is why you dont always see a full daíl...An discussion on road safty does not need The Minister of defence for instance.

I'm getting sick of this politcan bashin we keep seeing in AH..they do far more work than they are credited for.I did work experiance for a Minister and A TD and this ws during the boom and they were extremtly busy!.

Just because you dont seem them or hear of their work dosent mean they dont do anything!I've never seen surgery happen in this country...dosent mean it dosent happen

Mal-Adjusted

Seloth wrote: »

Just because you dont seem them or hear of their work dosent mean they dont do anything!

yes, it does

Seloth wrote: »

I've never seen surgery happen in this country...dosent mean it dosent happen

no, it doesn't. they send 'em to great ormondstreet for that:rolleyes:

epgc3fyqirnbsx

It's a matter of not tarring them all really. Some work incredibly hard, and you generally have to work incredibly hard to get elected anyway.

You have some, like one I know in my constituency, who literally will go to three funerals a day to make presence known, but at the same time is a fantastic representative and faciliatator for local problems. Which is the job really.

Tbh, I would really be more concerned about senators than TD's, the majority of TD's work incredibaly hard.
That is not to say that you can't have any concerns about expenses though...

mawk

Deleted User wrote: »

They were jealous of the teachers.. So they made their wages better, took the same breaks and got rid of children out of the Dáil.

ya think?

Seloth

Cain Victorious Crater wrote: »

That is not to say that you can't have any concerns about expenses though...

Well some are ridiculouse but some are need.Like allot of companys would give these expenses to there employees,and if you viewed the Government like a company than the T'Ds would be the same folk that get these.But yeah some are quite silly.

I honestly dont like the whole TD going to funerals thing.Now in all fairness if it were a well known local person,Young person etc but ones that go just to get there faces around kind of annoy me.On the other hand I was talking to this with my mother and she likes it as the TD's going to the funeral of someone he/she represented,showing a bit of a personal touch to the whole thing,even if they didnt vote for said person.

moonpurple

to have time for filling in sheets of expenses?

galwayrush

The recess gives the country a deserved break from their incompetence.

Biggins

Deleted User wrote: »

They were jealous of the teachers.. So they made their wages better, took the same breaks and got rid of children out of the Dáil.

Point of interest: Some of them ARE teachers officially by the way. On a forever extending leave of absence to serve in the Dail.

See here: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/shame-of-pensions-on-double-for-teachertds-1726771.html

AskMyChocolate

Seloth wrote: »

Right...TD's do most of their work in their constitunacy....This 100 days lets them focus souly on their area's.

That is why you dont always see a full daíl...An discussion on road safty does not need The Minister of defence for instance.

I'm getting sick of this politcan bashin we keep seeing in AH..they do far more work than they are credited for.I did work experiance for a Minister and A TD and this ws during the boom and they were extremtly busy!.

Just because you dont seem them or hear of their work dosent mean they dont do anything!I've never seen surgery happen in this country...dosent mean it dosent happen

Any chance you could get them to stop?

Biggins

galwayrush wrote: »

The recess gives the country a deserved break from their incompetence.

Never truer words were spoken! :pac:

They are like traffic lights. Sometimes when they are disabled, things just run smother!