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council seats left vacant after ge11

  • 27-02-2011 10:46pm
    #1
    LFC Murphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 825 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering what happens here.... a number of seats on Local Authorities left vacant now...

    Also to settle a bet, can an out going TD draw the dole


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  • #2
    dsmythy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,528 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    They send unelected fellow travellers to the posts instead.


  • #3
    ISAW
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,142 ✭✭✭ISAW


    LFC Murphy wrote: »
    Just wondering what happens here.... a number of seats on Local Authorities left vacant now...

    someone is co opted to fill the seat. Unlike the Dail there is no by election and it is filled by a nominee of the person who ran originally. In European elections when you run for election you put down people to replace you if you resign/retire or get elected elsewhere. I think council co options are similar but not the same i.e. the replacement is not decided they day you are elected.
    Also to settle a bet, can an out going TD draw the dole

    AFAIK. No.
    They get a severance payment and a pension depending on length of service. They probably can sign on and claim some dole if they have no job or income eighteen months later.


  • #4
    walrusgumble
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭walrusgumble


    being a small country that it is, the vacancies will be taken up by the brother/sister/wife/husband/canvasser/director of elections of the newly elected TD's;)


  • #5
    ISAW
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,142 ✭✭✭ISAW


    walrusgumble wrote: »
    being a small country that it is, the vacancies will be taken up by the brother/sister/wife/husband/canvasser/director of elections of the newly elected TD's;)

    And in a "big country" they do something different?


  • #6
    walrusgumble
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭walrusgumble


    ISAW wrote: »
    And in a "big country" they do something different?

    I don't know what they do in say UK, Germany etc. It does not make it alright

    I will be more blunt then; considering the parish pump politics in this country..........


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