Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

TD Clinics

  • 12-08-2011 11:36am
    #1
    scholar007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭


    What exactly are the purpose of TD Clinics? Why would anyone go to them?


Comments

  • #2
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    to get favours done...


  • #3
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Constituents go there to speak with their TD or local representative, who can raise their questions or concerns in the Oireachtas or at national level (not all correspondence has to happen within the Oireachtas chamber, of course)

    There is also a perception, which is not always justified, that the politician holds sway with a Government department, or a local government body, and may make a more effective representation on behalf of the constituent than the constituent himself.

    In some cases, TDs are only too happy to encourage constituents, whom they know have specific entitlements, to let the TD intervene when of course if the constituent had merely go into the relevant body himself or herself, they could have secured their own entitlements. The amount of times that pretty bog standard social welfare or community welfare claims are raised whilst out canvassing is pretty significant, and politicians do take advantage of this.


  • #4
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    to get favours done...

    /thread


Advertisement