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Email a letter to the Taoiseach?

  • 23-11-2010 11:38am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭


    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.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭wobbles-grogan


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭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 ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭paulaa


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

    Correct, just as soon as they give us the chance :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    Pointless exercise!

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


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  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,840 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Question asked, question answered.


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