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Let's meet at the dail

  • 05-02-2012 12:00pm
    #1
    Anita M.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭


    Wednesday afternoon, nothing else to do?
    Lets meet at the dail for a picknick.
    Bring your own food, drinks etc.


Comments

  • #2
    Anita M.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Anita M.


    Post if you are in.


  • #3
    UsernameInUse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 778 ✭✭✭UsernameInUse


    Just go when FG are meeting there on Tuesday night. It'll be empty on Wednesday.


  • #4
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Better off turning up on Friday, the Dail will be nearly empty then!

    See: http://www.thejournal.ie/dail-sittings-on-a-friday-are-a-slap-in-the-face-of-reform-fianna-fail-td-344889-Feb2012/


  • #5
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,878 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Anita M. wrote: »
    Post if you are in.

    Were you expecting a better response?


  • #6
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Pass. I'd prefer to just vent on the net.


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  • #7
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Did you know, the only way to visit the Dail is if you know a member of staff there, or if you ask your local TD or Senator for a trip (which generally means having to be given one of those dreadful guided tours by the member's parliamentary assistant, like an American at the book of Kells exhibition).

    I would much rather if we had a system whereby members of the public could drop in and watch Dail proceedings.

    Although there are television cameras in both houses of the Oireachtas, I'm afraid members of both houses sometimes operate like nobody's watching them at all, and I wouldn't quite dismiss the effect that having a more public audience might have upon both attendance and the quality of debate that goes on.


  • #8
    Stripey Cat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 741 ✭✭✭Stripey Cat


    Anyone can go in to the House of Commons in London and watch debates for as long as they are sitting.

    It's airport style security going in, but they don't care who you are or where you're from.

    Quite of bit of Westminster is open to wander around as well.

    I think it says something about us that our laws are made behind well defended fences.


  • #9
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Enjoy your picnic OP


  • #10
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Anita M. wrote: »
    Post if you are in.

    whats the address?


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


    Stripey Cat wrote: »
    Anyone can go in to the House of Commons in London and watch debates for as long as they are sitting.

    It's airport style security going in, but they don't care who you are or where you're from.

    Quite of bit of Westminster is open to wander around as well.

    I think it says something about us that our laws are made behind well defended fences.

    We didn't even televise Dail sittings until about 1990.

    Imagine that. Seventy years of (what was effectively) a private members chamber whose debates would not be witnessed directly by the overwhelming majority of the Irish people, except through third party reporting.


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  • #12
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Ill bring the cement truck


  • #13
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,878 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Stripey Cat wrote: »
    Anyone can go in to the House of Commons in London and watch debates for as long as they are sitting.

    It's airport style security going in, but they don't care who you are or where you're from.

    Quite of bit of Westminster is open to wander around as well.

    I think it says something about us that our laws are made behind well defended fences.

    Has the Dail got a public gallery like the House of Commons? I don't know but if it hasn't I would not be inclined to spend public money building one at the moment. This guy is blazing a trail for the idea anyway.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1208/1224308743057.html


  • #14
    Pacifist Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Pacifist Pigeon


    Anita M. wrote: »
    Bring your own food, drinks etc.

    ... and dynamite!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1O-RKROCC4


  • #15
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Stripey Cat wrote: »
    Anyone can go in to the House of Commons in London and watch debates for as long as they are sitting.

    UK are a strange bunch

    Back when I was a student and sleeping until noon I would watch Tony Blair and William Hague ripping into each other, Prime Minsters questiontime. Entertaining TV, both are superb public speakers
    We had bumbling Bertie

    There was a rule that if you wanted to cause mischief and delay everything you stood up and shouted "I spy strangers" and they had to clear the public galleries.
    I never saw it happen but the commentators would talk about it

    They only changed that a few years ago


  • #16
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    Can I come too?


  • #17
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Has the Dail got a public gallery like the House of Commons? I don't know but if it hasn't I would not be inclined to spend public money building one at the moment.

    Yes it does
    But you can't just walk in off the street.
    Your local rep can invite you and sign you in.


  • #18
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Anita M. wrote: »
    Wednesday afternoon, nothing else to do?
    Lets meet at the dail for a picknick.
    Bring your own food, drinks etc.

    That won't go down well. :eek:
    dail_outside.jpg


  • #19
    Anita M.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Anita M.


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    whats the address?
    Up St Stephens green, Kildare street.


  • #20
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Anita M. wrote: »
    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    whats the address?
    Up St Stephens green, Kildare street.

    Which city is that in ?


  • #21
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Which city is that in ?

    The dooorty smelling one.


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  • #22
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Which city is that in ?

    In 'town' you very silly boy! :p


  • #23
    DB21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Which city is that in ?
    Town.


  • #24
    Underdraft
    Closed Accounts Posts: 323 ✭✭Underdraft


    Pacifist Pigeon wrote: »
    ... and dynamite!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1O-RKROCC4

    Unfortunately Dublin Light Rail System was never finished (tho why a city would need lines that actually, ya know, *connect* somewhere is beyond me!) so the bomb in the subway option is out.

    Perhaps 166 brown envelope with anthrax in it might be the solution. 99% of TD's jump at the chance to open them personally.


  • #25
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    In Dublin?
    I'm out.


  • #26
    Anita M.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Anita M.


    Or start you own dail in Galway Biko.


  • #27
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Anita M. wrote: »
    Or start you own dail in Galway Biko.

    Is your username Anita Man, because I'm free at the moment.;)


  • #28
    Anita M.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Anita M.


    First discussion in the Real Irish Dail in Galway: what to do with those eediots up in Dublin.


  • #29
    COYW
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭COYW


    I'm busy unfortunately, working to pay for all of the f ups.


  • #30
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Has the Dail got a public gallery like the House of Commons? I don't know but if it hasn't I would not be inclined to spend public money building one at the moment...

    As Mikemac1 said, yes, it does have one.
    Sadly though, if you manage to get that far and upstairs to the viewing gallery, there is now a thick clear glass screen all the way around the balcony - so there is NO chance of lobbying a few rotten eggs on some of the wasters below!

    Not that I would do it myself. I wouldn't as much as I'd love to at times! :pac:


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  • #31
    Pacifist Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Pacifist Pigeon


    Underdraft wrote: »
    Unfortunately Dublin Light Rail System was never finished (tho why a city would need lines that actually, ya know, *connect* somewhere is beyond me!) so the bomb in the subway option is out.

    Perhaps 166 brown envelope with anthrax in it might be the solution. 99% of TD's jump at the chance to open them personally.

    Ah, but we can still aerial bomb the Dáil using dynamite.


  • #32
    Executive Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,373 ✭✭✭Executive Steve


    Pacifist Pigeon wrote: »
    Ah, but we can still aerial bomb the Dáil using dynamite.


    [QUOTE=Pacifist Pigeon;76941552]Ah, but we can still aerial bomb the Dáil using dynamite.[/QUOTE]


    Pacifist Pigeon



    It's like ten thousand spoons... when all you need is a knife...


  • #33
    Underdraft
    Closed Accounts Posts: 323 ✭✭Underdraft


    Executive Steve wrote: »
    It's like ten thousand spoons... when all you need is a knife...

    lyrics from the Alanis Morissette chart topper "Coincidence".


  • #34
    Anita M.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Anita M.


    COYW wrote: »
    I'm busy unfortunately, working to pay for all of the f ups.
    you could take a quick detour on the way home? Even a few minutes of standing there will make you proud, ah cmon.


  • #35
    Anita M.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Anita M.


    Tomorrow afternoon at the dail.


  • #36
    Underdraft
    Closed Accounts Posts: 323 ✭✭Underdraft


    Anita M. wrote: »
    Tomorrow afternoon at the dail.

    Seeya there! I'll be the one disguised as a hipster student or a scruffy long-haired hippy.


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  • #37
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Underdraft wrote: »
    Seeya there! I'll be the one disguised as a hipster student or a scruffy long-haired hippy.

    Well Mr Adams, you don't need to try that hard for one of those disguises! :D;)
    The other would be a sight to see! :D


  • #38
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    I'd love to go, but I'm on the wrong side of the country.

    Anyone want to send a limo to pick me up?


  • #39
    Anita M.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Anita M.


    Im on my way now, hope to see you all there soon.
    Ah have no limo, anyone? ;)


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