Email a letter to the Taoiseach?

wobbles-grogan

Hi, just wondering is there a public-ly known email address for the office of the taoiseach?

I want to compile a list of the thoughts many people here on boards feel that need to change and mail it to the office. That way we can at least say we didn't just complain on boards all day

If all goes to all, I will post it off.

There are a lot of threads on here about this, a few good opinions were posted here:
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056094840
and here:
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056097317


So to start off with what I think needs changing:

• I would like an over-haul of our political system. Abolish the "local government" aspect of the dail. We have County councillers to handle county decision. We could do this by having a system similar to the UK.
• Reduce our TD's numbers to somewhere between 80 and 100.
• Reduce our TD's wages considerably.
• Make it mandatory for all TD's (except maybe ministers) to actually show up at the Dail. If a TD doesn't show up at the Dail, he looses his wages for the day. The current way of having 15 people there debating an issue of supposedly national importance is ridiculous.
• Remove all un-vouched expenses. All expenses should need a reciept and would need to be signed off by the office of the finance minister.

There just a few of the things I can think of. Any worthwhile suggestions in this thread, I will add them here (with due credit of course) and at the end if we have a list of suitable suggestions I will forward them onto the Taoiseach's office, with everyone's name signed on the end if that would be appropriate?

Try to keep this, I don't want any bickering and stupidity in this thread, some honest debate please.

Devilman40k

www.oireachtas.ie/documents/members_emails/30_Dail.doc obviously there are a few changes to that list since its publication in 2007/8 but thats the full list of e-mail addresses.

wobbles-grogan

I'm guessing taoiseach@taoiseach.ie is the one I need so!

martinn123

Hi

I sent him an e-mail, a few weeks ago, and got a reply from

privateoffice@taoiseach.gov.ie

Tel 01 6194020

signed by

Paul Mooney
Taoiseach's Private Office

paulaa

Could I suggest that TDs holidays are cut down . 3 months in the summer is too long and a month at Christmas is ridiculous at this time.

Also the Daíl should sit for 5 days instead of just Tuesday to Thursday

dicknorris

paulaa wrote: »

Could I suggest that TDs holidays are cut down . 3 months in the summer is too long and a month at Christmas is ridiculous at this time.

Also the Daíl should sit for 5 days instead of just Tuesday to Thursday

Well most of them are teachers so there used to the long holidays

paulaa

dicknorris wrote: »

Well most of them are teachers so there used to the long holidays

lol Maybe they should go back to teaching and let someone with integrity and intelligence run the country.

wobbles-grogan

paulaa wrote: »

lol Maybe they should go back to teaching and let someone with integrity and intelligence run the country.

Well, thats down to us, the people who vote them in :rolleyes:

paulaa

wobbles-grogan wrote: »

Well, thats down to us, the people who vote them in :rolleyes:

Correct, just as soon as they give us the chance

shaunsweb

I just started a thread yesterday in relation to Voting for Non of the Above. Perhaps we could get a campaign going to get all of them out

At least then, we could start with a clean slate

steelcityblues

Pointless exercise!

He's not the 'real' power in this country anyway!

oscarBravo

Question asked, question answered.