Could Fine Gael be pushed to the right?

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123947904#Comment_123947904

It's a coalition so no party gets everything they want. FF dragged the budget to the left.

Fann Linn

The same FG that promised to scrap USC? That FG?

Fanny Wank

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123948522#Comment_123948522

I'm still waiting for the bonfire of quangos. Any day now......

Everlong1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123948522#Comment_123948522

"sure don't all parties make promises…."

https://www.thejournal.ie/pat-rabbitte-election-promises-labour-929522-Jun2013/

Fann Linn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123948545#Comment_123948545

You proved my point with Pat Rabbitte and FG Lite.

Ozymandius2011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123948242#Comment_123948242

On Count 18 the gap was about 6000. But on Count 18 he was only 3,000 votes behind. He ended up behind 13000 on Count 19. Many pundits expected him to be elected eventually but with PRSTV its about the order of eliminations. The valid poll was 376,720 so percentage wise the difference was small as a share of the total valid poll, though large as a share of AOR and Boylan's individual votes.

One of the reasons he didnt win was that the transfer patterns were not strictly Left→Left or Right→Right all the time. Daly transferred about 7000 votes to Boylan, and Steenson transferred about 737 votes to Daly.

https://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2024E&cons=524

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123948564#Comment_123948564

Any pundit paying any attention knew the last seat was between Cuffe and O Riordain many, many counts earlier.

The Dublin area count last year that was legitimately unpredictable was Hutch/Sherlock.

Kermit.de.frog

Irish people aren't anti-immigration but I'd say most are concerned about the type of immigration that we have seen in recent years. I don't think anyone had too many problems with the Polish plumber.

When it comes to asylum seekers the worry is that many of them will end up dependent on the state and you get the fear of crime as well.

Without a doubt there is a large right of center vote in Ireland currently homeless. You'd think FG should be the best party to tap those voters and maybe they are waking up to it now.

Still actions speak louder than words. We shouldn't have people loitering in the country when they've been ordered to leave.

Another thing that confuses me is are they still getting some form of social protection after being told to leave, are they in some form state accomodation? An obvious push would be to cut all receipts off, maybe not immediately but after a few weeks to encourage a quick exit.

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123948544#Comment_123948544

As an FG member, its a matter of great regret that the announcement of such a policy by the Kenny government in 2011, was never followed through.

Yes, it was borne out of the economic collapse of the time, but the reasoning behind it, ie to save money, is still valid.

There are approximately 500 state agencies, authorities and non-commercial public entities under the aegis of the State.

Some of them are so tiny, that they have larger Boards than they have staff numbers.

Honestly, I could sit down for a week and write a business case for ridding the public administration, by both abolition and amalgamation, of 100 of those at least.

And I'd begin with Health.

Health Protection Surveillance Centre

Health Information and Quality Authority

Health Products Regulatory Authority

Health Research Board

National Poisons Information Centre

National Treatment Purchase Fund

National Drug Treatment

Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority

Health and Social Care Professionals Council

National Cancer Registry Ireland

Thats just 10 off the top. All of those should become a single larger Health Standards Authority, or even better, statutory offices of the Department of Health or HSE.

A bonfire is exactly whats needed.