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Why is there restrictions on what the President can do?

  • 11-08-2011 11:02pm
    #1
    dillo2k10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭


    Why can s/he not speak his/her own views in Public? (Without permission of the government)

    Why do they have to sign bills into law?

    Why can't they leave the country without the permission of the Government?


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  • #2
    paky
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭paky


    the vast majority of candidates are imbeciles. its probably for their own safety


  • #3
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Because the last time the government and the president publicly clashed, the president subsequently resigned, O'Dailaigh ARAIR.


  • #4
    dillo2k10
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    Manach wrote: »
    Because the last time the government and the president publicly clashed, the president subsequently resigned, O'Dailaigh ARAIR.

    So is it just to make things easier for the Gov?


  • #5
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    dillo2k10 wrote: »
    Why can s/he not speak his/her own views in Public? (Without permission of the government)

    Why do they have to sign bills into law?

    Why can't they leave the country without the permission of the Government?
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  • #6
    Sand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,887 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    The President is basically the old office of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State, the Crowns representative as head of state.

    The office was basically gradually gutted of any importance, prestige or power as part of the efforts to gradually remove Ireland from British influence. Fianna Fail routinely humiliated and sidelined McNeill as governor general when they first took power. Dev then instruced the British crown that a shopkeeper should be appointed as the next Governor General, who was a Fianna Fail loyalist. This last Governor General was instructed to remove himself from public life and not to exercise any but the basic essential powers required for the Irish Free state to function.

    Eventually Dev removed the office of Governor General entirely in 1936, and replaced it with the office of President of the Irish Free State. By that point it was too late to reverse course and suddenly have the head of state be given any significant role in governance of the state or public debate. All power had been stripped from the office and the new holders of that power werent inclined to give it back.

    Afterall, why would the government want the humiliation of being lectured to by a directly elected President?

    Short story - like most things that are ****ed up in Ireland, its De Valeras fault.


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  • #7
    Babooshka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Babooshka


    Powers and Functions



    The formal powers and functions of the President are prescribed in the Constitution. The President, who does not have an executive or policy role, exercises them on the advice of the Government.


    The above is taken from http://www.president.ie/index.php?section=15&lang=eng which kind of sums the whole thing up for me.....why does anyone care?


  • #8
    View
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,872 ✭✭✭View


    dillo2k10 wrote: »
    Why can s/he not speak his/her own views in Public? (Without permission of the government)

    Why do they have to sign bills into law?

    Why can't they leave the country without the permission of the Government?

    The short answer to this is because it is what the people voted for when they approved the provisions of Bunreacht na hEireann by referendum.


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