he got a month of for paternity leave ??? do all new dads in irish workforce get a month of for paternity now , or did simon get a sweet deal ? thats tax payer fiunded is it yeah ? nice perk if you can get it !
....I would've thought a month was very much on the short side of paternity leave when compared with the private sector to be honest.
I certainly wouldn't think a month of paternity leave is a, 'sweet deal' by any reckoning.
i am not sure what it is in ireland these days , it was 2 weeks when my children was born , and believe it is the same here in the uk were I am based now ( not that i will be planning to use it ever again lol ) !
edit , I see harris himself said he was only taking two weeks , so not sure if that is because new dads only get that or not , but either way doesnt look like he has being doing much about making complaints or getting dail records corrected
Two weeks is the amount of state paternity benefit entitlement, anyone of comparable seniority to Harris in the private sector would have significantly more than two weeks paternity leave.
Taking a month off work to support one's partner and bond with your new child is hardly crime of the century stuff here. There's plenty one could criticise Simon Harris about without watering legitimate criticism down with nonsense like this.
you need to get of your high horse , I never critiscised him , yes I commented it was a nice perk if you could get it ( which it is ) but seems he didnt take a month of anyway , only 2 weeks which leaves the poster trying to claim he was of on paternity as an excuse for failing to make his complaint , or get the dail records corrected excuse to not hold much water
Ah drop the BS, you had a moan about him getting a, 'sweet deal' at the expense of the taxpayer. I disagree that it is a particularly sweet deal, citing that most of similar seniority/responsibility in the private sector would have more paternity leave......and now you're claiming you were just saying it was a nice perk and there was no negative connotations in your post?
Ah catch yourself on, at least own your critique.
I reckon there's about as much chance of a complaint actually going in as there is Gerry admitting to being in the RA.....but it doesn't make your griping about a man taking paternity leave any less petty.
Wasnt me claimed SF caused the housing crisis in Dublin because they'd a few more seats for a 5 year period :)
FF/FG using the private market to tackle housing. Its recorded fact.
You absolutely failed, in fact didn't even bother to back up your claim.
How did SF cause the housing crisis in Dublin? Show your work.
You and others have the neck to try claim, in the middle of an 11 year and counting housing crisis, when called on it, try to blame SF having a couple of more seats on DCC for under 5 years as being key to why Dublin has a crisis, but won't explain how.
You were shown up for peddling waffle, again.
Given that this is the SF thread, I take it that SF spokespersons still favour
(1) opening up pubs and nightclubs no matter how high the cases are going but closing the schools
(2) those who choose to be unvaccinated should have the same right to go to the pub as those of us who are vaccinated.
Never heard of any of them, but the Twitterati live in a very small-minded tiny world of their own, let them off.
Well maybe her predecessors condemned it as I am sure that they had nothing to do with it...................oh.
He is kind of on paternity leave at the moment. Is that allowed in SF circles?
Thanks for that support on the legal issue. We differ a lot, but appreciate that you understood the point I was making.
On the latter issue of how this would happen, why would someone impersonate a minor SF official in that sort of situation? It seems like a stretch.
Don't you mean 'remain' open?
shame he changed his tune the Christmas.
Can you imagine how much worse the figures would have been had we followed Mary-Lou's advice? It just doesn't bear thinking about.
We have seen it again recently with her call to let the unvaccinated into indoor venues. Has the woman no sense at all?
No way it could top. telling people they could go to pubs and restaurants over the holiday period.
If that's what she suggested I'd strongly disagree with her.
Hard to tell as you misrepresent a lot.
Like she never said open the pubs but you keep claiming she did when you know that's a lie.
I don't have a, 'team' as such, Blanch. We happen to disagree on a few fundamental things but I don't think you're some caricature that is always wrong. Your style of debate means we clash heads a bit aggressively sometimes, but your point was so self evidently true that I couldn't take the opposing side even if I REALLY wanted to play devil's advocate!
On the latter issue, I don't believe the tweet and alleged email was supposed to be attached to any specific SF official, minor or otherwise. My suspicion is that some random not actually attached to SF (either called Cillian or just using that particular name as a nom de guerre) sent some nasty emails which the victim was altogether too eager to attribute to SF for political point scoring.....it just happens that there's essentially only one person actually attached to SF called Cillian who matches the bill. Given the subsequent deletion of the tweet in question, I'd imagine FF HQ are about as confident as I am that the email didn't come from the person it is alleged to. I don't think it is any more of a stretch than believing that someone educated to PhD level would be so lacking in cop on as to send a message of that type and put their own name to it to be fair.
That one was a throwaway comment more in response to the baiting nature I suspect was intended by the poster in question rather than a particularly believably held position on my part, so I'm not terribly inclined to try and muster a particularly strong defense to it. I still wholeheartedly reject his/her suggestion that David Amness was killed in identical circumstances to Robert Bradford.
I've been clear that I don't for a second support Bradford's murder, but given his connections with Loyalist paramilitaries and his propensity to blame everything on those pesky Catholics, I think it comes across as a petty attempt at political point scoring that demeans David Amness to compare the two. Somewhat akin to how I'm sure you'd feel if someone compared Gerry Adams' imprisonment to that of Nelson Mandela and suggested they were identical circumstances.
Ah alright, milkshake girl, as in FG hired some random person to throw a drink over Leo.....
Would you listen to yourself FFS.... It's all a conspiracy. Very paranoid.
That is mad, suggesting that milkshake girl was a set-up. It is gas the way that Leo lives in some heads, or maybe sad.
Very sad I’m afraid, people like that live in the past, and have a very strange outlook on life.
Brilliant, just brilliant. "Did we have a housing problem in 2014? No we didn't. We had a homeless problem". 🤣
If you don't see the link between housing and homelessness you've really no business talking spin on it.
If you want to quote someone, maybe quote them correctly
I said: "Did we have a housing crisis in 2014? No we didn't. We had a homeless problem"
Not sure what the links are supposed to provide? I already provided the official information that over the period of the SF led DCC the homeless number doubled.
Quite right. Now lets get back to talking about the 'RA and the troubles 😎
As pointed out, you failed to show how. You could as credibly blame SF for the ebola outbreak ffs.
I quoted: "Did we have a housing problem in 2014? No we didn't. We had a homeless problem"
You said we didn't have a "housing crisis" in 2014, but we had a homeless one. If you can't see the links you've no business trying to spin it IMO.
The links show how trouble in housing created higher homeless figures. The links show we had a housing crisis.
Show how SF created the housing crisis in Dublin. Them having the most seats in the midst of a FG housing crisis isn't showing anything.
You seem quite keen to sweep all that stuff under the carpet, and then roar and shout about minor issues ………hmmmmm .
Interesting ..!!
I still can't tell what you do be getting at at all. There's an elusive point there i imagine :)
This is rich, considering how upset you got on Friday that I had the sheer audacity to "drag up" any mention of a certain ministers appearance on a radio slot, also on Friday.
None to impressed at me "dragging it up" if I recall correctly.
Roar and shout? You seem to be of a delicate persuasion. I hope I didn't rattle the nerves. Not sure what's minor issues either.
Okey dokey……We’ll leave it there so…….😁
The main gist of the point is that SF used their influence at local level to curtail and stop housing developments in order to damage the government of the day.
They want to put SF bums on seats and don't care if young people cannot get a home or if homelessness goes up in the meantime, so long as SF get their pound of flesh on the airwaves.
That is the legacy of SF in opposition.
