24/7 candidates for the next general election.

Stopitwillya wrote: »

Just interested to hear peoples oponion on the next general election. With our 4 tds being as useful as tits on a bull, if 4 24/7 cardiac care campaigners were to run, would they have any chance of getting elected. I would certainly give them my 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the card.

I think Cullinane is pretty effective. I would like to see Eddie Mulligan elected. Butler I really don't know much about so nothing particular to impress me, similarly Halligan. As an issue it would definitely return at least one TD and would certainly be a factor for me.

Waste of a td IMO...govt won't need/ bother with a single td when they can deal with other parties.elect a decent td who will be in the party of govt best option and put useless table bangers like halligan out.agree with 2 posters above, not electing coffey was so stupid its hard to credit, cullinane is a good speaker and yeah for FF I'd like to see eddie muligan get nod.hard to say at this stage but if election tomorrow FG would be biggest party so coffey is our best opportunity. If FG went in with SF you'd imagine cullinane would be in the mix.

Gillman1998 wrote: »

I think Cullinane is pretty effective. I would like to see Eddie Mulligan elected. Butler I really don't know much about so nothing particular to impress me, similarly Halligan. As an issue it would definitely return at least one TD and would certainly be a factor for me.

What has he achieved?

I had actually completely forgotten that we had Deasy as one of our TDs.

Completely and utterly useless.

deisemum wrote: »

Yeah he was a no vote and a lot of my friends along with myself will never vote for him.

Is he not entitled to vote no? How does that disqualify him from being a TD? I'm not sure what his personal views have to do with his ability to get things done for the region.

Here's a thought. The latest opinion polls show that the strengthening SF vote makes a coalition more likely next time round. Now FF and FG may make noise about never sharing power with SF but I think that either Leo or Micheal could do a deal with Mary Lou.

In that scenario, let's say Leo is the more pragmatic, you could end up with Paudie Coffey and David Callinane in the Cabinet (Callinane on the basis of his good work on the PAC).

Happy days for Waterford.

not a hope in hell would i vote for a 24/7 candidate. what would they achieve? John Halligan has proved that. the decision on whether we get 24/7 will come down to medical professionals within the national review. protests and Facebook pages will not outweigh this. Matt Shanahan is an ultra catholic and supported the No side, Hilary O'Neill posts the same thing week in week out on the SEPAG page and her own personal page. most of it popular rhetoric and stirring things up. Furthermore, having a single issue TD would be worthless. we elect TD's to legislate not parish pump politics.

Gardner wrote: »

John Halligan has proved that

He is going to rain down hell on the government you know.

Might be derailing the thread but since there's mention of Paudie voting no in the recent referendum, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Mary Butler. I don't begrudge anyone for voting no in the referendum but she was one of the TDs that voted to not even have the referendum in the first place. I'm less a fan of that than anyone voting against repealing the 8th.

Cabaal wrote: »

That would be my issue with any TD, now how they voted in the actual ref.
But that they actually voted to stop the citizens of Ireland from exercising their democratic right on an issue that there was clear demand to vote on

I'd line up with the same thinking. Even if she was a vocal no supporter during the referendum, I'd still consider voting for her depending on her policies. Trying to block the referendum as a politician was putting her own beliefs before the electorate which, ideally, is the opposite of what a politician should do.

Captain Red Beard wrote: »

Butler and Mulligan both voted against the boundary extension, with Butler being an outspoken no voter on the 8th ref she has also voted against women. How anyone can think of voting FF in Waterford is beyond me.

Don't think that's true about Mulligan. He submitted a submission in support of the boundary extension.

even though this is not directly related to this thread, i still think this is very disturbing for the south east

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2018/0613/970285-mental-health/

They sure are. I can't say anything bad about the staff (well a couple were horrible but not all) but I had some problems back in 2011 and the resources at UHW (WRH at the time) were shockingly bad. They just don't have the time to deal with people who aren't an immediate danger to themselves or others. There's a definite feeling that if you're not mid breakdown then your problems are small enough that you can deal with it on your own. There needs to be a major overall in mental health services in Ireland in general and not just Waterford.

Tried finding it but the only survey I found has been closed down. Would give it a go but can't seem to find a link.