Disgraceful Norma Foley interview. Why are politicians let away without answering the question.

Bet she knows how to use a paragraph though.

"How can these people be held accountable when all we can do is vote them out"

Might help if the country stops voting them in

It's a trait of many politicians.

But the interviewers tend to always let them away with it, so it'll continue.

I would really love an interviewer to just interrupt and say, "right I've given you 2 opportunities to answer the question and you've decided not to answer both times, so I'm just going to stop the interview now as you are wasting everyone's time ", and end the interview. Would be quality.

But will never happen.

i KNOW what FF/FG/Lab?Greens dont deliver on. SF deserve a chance. Anyone who points to the north and claims its an example of SF in power will need to educate themselves a bit.

Rural areas need more bus services. Most of us around here would love to stick our kid on the bus and not have to queue at the set down area at school. I'd have applied for a bus ticket if I'd known. If the car breaks down I have no other mode of transport and our house is too far away from the school to walk small children to (6km) and there's no hard shoulder, footpath or cycle lane to use those options.

All school children should have a bus ticket as a given. That way it could ease congestion on the roads by a long way you only have to see the ease of traffic when schools and universities are on their holidays.

The problem was that Bus Eireann were out of the loop.

So which is causing you greater concern, the fact that the tool Foley would not answer a question or that fact that there is free bus travel for all kids?

My kids are availing of it this year and as a taxpayer that tends to get SFA in return for my taxes, I am glad of it, rather than having to try find the hundreds of quid every year that it did cost.

Oh and here is the best bit, you officially only got a concession, you were never guaranteed a place on a bus.

What the fook was that about?

How many other services do you fork out money for and you are not even guaranteed the service?

It was like a fooking lottery.

Likewise we have copped on to fact that teachers in local national school would demand the kids show up with a huge number of copybooks (3 or 4 sums, 78 or 8 normal), some of which were then confiscated only yo be later handed out to kids that didn't have any.

Well fook that for a carry on, I work hard for anything we have and I will be fooked if I am working hard for the kids of some parents that can spend a couple of nights a week in the pub and 5 nights a week in the chipper.

So there that is my rant.

He is in a nonsense portfolio that even a chimp from Dublin Zoo could look passable in.

That was a role created for him, we have nothing to benchmark it against.

But what has he actually done?

Norma Foley has the look of a Minister who is being completely dominated by her Department mandarins!! She is a first term td, shouldn't be allowed near a ministry, I can't think of a worse Cabinet in our history, and it ain't going to get any better anytime soon!