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General Election TV debates

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  • #2612
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    That's a sore one from Mary Lou there with the pensions jibe


  • #2613
    C__MC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭C__MC


    Jog on Mary Lou
    How the **** are sinn fein topping polls


  • #2614
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    I'd say fatigue is settling in at this stage. Four weeks trying not to make a verbal blunder is stressful. Hopefully we will get a four to five year government because we can't face this ****e in a year or so


  • #2615
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    cannotlogin wrote: »
    Slightly off topic but why is unemployment benefit never reduced in times of near full employment?

    Nobody who is in receipt if unemployment benefit should struggle to find a job when that is the economic situation. Those who can't work should be disability instead.

    Because the dole is good for the economy. Most recipients will pump the money back in.


  • #2616
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    An Ciarraioch wrote: »
    This may be the point where the SF bubble starts to deflate slightly - easily Mary Lou's weakest debate to date. By contrast, Martin's strongest performance, and Varadkar doing little here to address the slide.

    Mary Lou appearing tonight always carried a risk for SF, she was better off not be there and let them snipe from afar and look like the better person.


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  • #2617
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    [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 doubt it. Whenever I've had to bring my kid to GP, the waiting room had been farely clear. Chances are, you're looking at the issue of a GP that's oversubscribed. Which is the issue by MM and Leo are cautious of, with giving free range on health care.


  • #2618
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    super_furry wrote: »
    'People are living longer'

    Finally a problem Mary Lou has an answer for. Time to make some phone calls and get the band back together.

    Is it a sin to laugh at that?:P


  • #2619
    Underground
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,710 ✭✭✭Underground


    Miriam ya beauty, where did the Dara Murphy bomb come from!?


  • #2620
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Dara Murphy...... This'll be good.


  • #2621
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Ooh nice question


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  • #2622
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,914 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Oh dara Murphy.


  • #2623
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,642 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ffs, how many times do they have to be told to not talk over each other?


  • #2624
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,981 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    sinn fein website has "learn more" beneath all their policy bullet points on their website except for ..................... "cost of delivering our proposals"

    lol

    you couldnt make it up -amateur hour

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #2625
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    "Let down"...translates to fraud in most cases.


  • #2626
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,784 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Ah don't worry about Dara. He's not running in the election. I'm very annoyed though.


  • #2627
    piplip87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,306 ✭✭✭piplip87


    super_furry wrote: »
    'People are living longer'

    Finally a problem Mary Lou has an answer for. Time to make some phone calls and get the band back together.

    Thanks my tea everywhere. Comment of the decade.so far


  • #2628
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    It wasnt me123 wrote: »
    There will always be those that can’t work for lots of reasons health, etc but that would be aa small minority of the population - everyone else get off your hole and contribute. No free anything. You want to see aa dr and have a medical card, pay 10 euro. You want a prescription, pay 2 euro per prescription. Nothing for free.
    same with free travel - ridiculous. heavily subsidised certainly but free? utter stupidity.


  • #2629
    christy c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭christy c


    MLMD got her backside handed to her on pensions.


  • #2630
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,421 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    gyppo wrote: »
    I really dont think it would work. You thin a helicopter pilot/crew will land in unknown terrain in a rural area at nighttime without clear visibility of any obstacles?

    I see the medivac helicopter working from Athlone every day, and its an absolutely superb service, but not at night....

    You can plan out a landing site grid/network easily enough. Its all still better than hoping against hope that an small hospital with a smaller A&E can be bungled in to working.


  • #2631
    Suckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Leo's hands stopped moving for these questions.


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  • #2632
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    RTÉ are paid by FG to give them an easy time!!


  • #2633
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,774 ✭✭✭storker


    I've no issue with increasing the pension age, but forcing people out before that age is ridiculous. The pension age and mandatory retirement should move together, if there has to be a mandatory retirement age at all. Also, nobody seems to have mentioned doing anything about helping people get jobs in later years e.g. by fighting ageism.


  • #2634
    deisedevil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,252 ✭✭✭deisedevil


    Wow. Miriam dropping bombs all over Leo.


  • #2635
    Finty Lemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭Finty Lemon


    'The society that puts equality before individual freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a greater measure of both'


  • #2636
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,421 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Martin managed to mention his childhood WITHOUT mentioning his Da being a bus driver. I'm in shock.


  • #2637
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,490 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Here;s the individual party problems

    LV you were the boss, poor answer and explanation over Murphy


  • #2638
    KM792
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭KM792


    MM always a competent spokesman I've found...gift of the gab sort of thing.
    Mary Lou slacked tonight surprisingly...usually very confident in her delivery,could sell sand to the Arabs.
    I still can't look at Leo and take him seriously as a country leader,strangely awkward ..reminds me of a socially awkward nerd who shies away from company and reads a lot of books.


  • #2639
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,102 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ffs, how many times do they have to be told to not talk over each other?

    At least Joan isn't there this time.


  • #2640
    OMM 0000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭OMM 0000


    super_furry wrote: »
    Mary Lou with the first mansplain of the night. It's a bold move Cotton, let's see how it pays off.

    Well she lost my vote.

    She proved herself as one of those women who think men are stupid.

    Sexism is gross.


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  • #2641
    Lackey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Lackey


    It wasnt me123 wrote: »
    Yes, but who pays for it?

    What needs to be done with the health service will never happen
    I don't think there's anyone with the balls to do it.
    So, taking that into consideration, I wont give out about my tax money being spent on people who need their cataracts done.


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