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General Election TV debates

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  • #2552
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    A lot of talk with fcuk all said.


  • #2553
    Venom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    ThunbergsAreGo wrote: »
    She actually said mansplain......


    jesus-facepalm-meme_o_594770.jpg

    She'll be saying their haranguing her next!


  • #2554
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,557 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    It wasnt me123 wrote: »
    I can solve the nurse/dr/teacher problem.

    Make them work here for 2 years before they get their practising certs to move on. That way we always have new drs/nurses/teachers coming into the system - their 3rd level education is subsidised here so let them work in the system that supported them.

    Yeah not a bad idea. How about the welfare wasters do the same ?


  • #2555
    easypazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    Ardent wrote: »
    Leo with a home run with the John Delaney analogy LOL

    Nailed that one to be fair. It needs a studio audience, to amplify any heavy blow landed.


  • #2556
    Stacksofwacks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭Stacksofwacks


    Genghis wrote: »
    Cheap shot with the mansplain.

    She threw that in for the neurotic/easily offended vote


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  • #2557
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    Marylou wiping the floor with the two lads��

    ??? you even watching?


  • #2558
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,393 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Ciara Kelly on newstalk went on a rant about it one day last week and she made so much sense.

    When a GP visit costs 35 quid, when junior has the sniffles he is given a shot of Calpol and sent to bed. When GP visits are free, he's brought to the doctor. And when a working person has an appointment for 11am, he/she has to wait til 1pm to be seen because the waiting room is full of sniffling kids.
    I don't disagree with paying to see a gp, northern Ireland is a joke doctors surgery awash with people (speaking from experience), don't pay for doctors visit and don't pay for a prescription.


  • #2559
    valtraman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭valtraman


    Body language is great best comedy on RTE in years


  • #2560
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,177 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Crazy giving additional money to our already generous pension and not supporting childcare and housing to raise the new breed of taxpayer to support it.


  • #2561
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,252 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Mary Lou praising the Brits!

    Another thing they tend to do is actually resign as an MP if caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

    Wouldn't hurt if we adopted that policy too


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  • #2562
    piplip87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭piplip87


    Seriously Marylou we should work after workers first..... Yes Marylou your forgetting the majority of your supporters are full time mad Bastards, #bossbabes and permanent jobseekers.....

    Who may I add have been claiming benefits for years, live in council houses provided by FFG, you cannot make it up


  • #2563
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,712 ✭✭✭storker


    Leo: Put us back in ans the wealth will trickle down to you...eventually...no really...honest...


  • #2564
    C__MC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭C__MC


    Remember when Brian Cowen was hungover in galway when the country was in crises
    God fianna fail were some joke shop and yet there on the cusp of returning to power
    Leave it to the Irish


  • #2565
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,974 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    How long is left in this debate ? None of the leaders have helped themselves with this debate and by being on TV may hurt themselves.


  • #2566
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,591 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    TheRiverman wrote: »
    Very poor performance by Mary Lou,

    You hardly expected her to suddenly become capable did you. Her true level is somewhere between county councillor and TD.


  • #2567
    Venom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    Marylou wiping the floor with the two lads��




    Someone needs to visit specsavers!


  • #2568
    Negative_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭Negative_G


    L1011 wrote: »
    The regional hospitals don't have the kit, staff and expertise to save you if you rock up there out of hours (or in hours, in some cases).

    Properly fund and staff the air ambulance services instead.

    Who would you have running Air Ambulances?

    Another 500million contract to CHC? Or perhaps a 3.5million euro part time contract for a fixed wing aircraft that won't do any domestic work?


  • #2569
    History Queen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭History Queen


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    It is for the value for money it gives - sucking money away from Limerick where it would give better efficiency.

    Incorrect. Scaled down services provided in Nenagh being used to relieve pressure on Limerick with patients frequently transferred to Nenagh from Limerick to free up beds in Limerick. Minor injuries unit also used in Nenagh in an attempt to prevent people needing to use A&E in Limerick,therefore also helping to reduce pressure on the hospital. The catchment area and population increase in recent years means it is simply impossible for the hospital to deal with the number of pepple who need it


  • #2570
    CPTM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭CPTM


    Nice to see Leo is awake during this debate. Maybe it was strategy to be quieter during the last one.


  • #2571
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Stacksofwacks wrote: »
    She threw that in for the neurotic/easily offended vote



    She’s rounding up the anti hunt crowds aswell earlier.will ban fox hunting if she gets in so she says


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  • #2572
    Justin10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,248 ✭✭✭Justin10


    Leo is much more comfortable at this, Mary Lou struggling, hasn't come across with a good point so far which really is disappointing, a 3rd strong party is definitely needed what ever side of the fence you are on


  • #2573
    boardise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,530 ✭✭✭boardise


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    And paying for water supply and waste removal based on usage.

    Irish non-solutions to Irish problems.


  • #2574
    Zetor19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭Zetor19


    Is leo the worst leader the tans ever had?


  • #2575
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,355 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    Marylou wiping the floor with the two lads��

    You really think so? Jaysus, I think she's really underperforming here. Plenty of soundbites and prepared one-liners but she's so evasive and sketchy when anything is put to her.

    I think the bigger format debates suited her much better.


  • #2576
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    valtraman wrote: »
    Body language is great best comedy on RTE in years

    David wins, hands down. And eyes down.


  • #2577
    Genghis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Genghis


    Poor quality from all. I don't think this will do anything to change minds, not will it be seen as a turning point.


  • #2578
    Panrich
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Panrich


    theballz wrote: »
    57% income tax on earners over 100k will drive further immigration.

    SF are absolutely clueless and the demographic they are targeting is so evident. Uneducated, low earners who know no different.

    It’s like Brexit.


    Why would people come here to pay more taxes????

    Unless of course you meant emigration.


  • #2579
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,122 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Does Mary Lou ever answer a direct question without saying let me point out first.....

    Straight out of Gerrys book.


  • #2580
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,774 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    gyppo wrote: »
    Air ambulances fly at night? News to me.....

    In countries where the system actually works, yes. It doesn't here.

    But it'll cost a hell of a lot less with vastly better outcomes to fix that - either by making the Air Corps attractive enough for pilots not to leave or getting someone like CHC to do it - than to try make the regional/rural A&Es function to an acceptable level.


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  • #2581
    Finty Lemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭Finty Lemon


    Cracks appearing all through the SF manifesto.


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