Referendum on Gender Equality

They were randomly selected

Over on the farming forum gk5000 on March referendum thread explains about how he was selected and involved in the citizens assembly and is an eye opener.

To-day's Irish Times letters page is a great read: really sticks it to the NGOs, one particular I.T. journalist, and the opposition parties. Also calls out the lazy "far right" labelling of anyone who disagrees with right-on "progressive" social views.

On what basis can you credibly claim this?

That way the legal eagles get their share too. All on the taxpayers.

No they have already done so much damage around the country to towns, villages and even inner city communities that people are not going to forget.

Watch areas that were dependent on tourism hit hard over the next year.

They will not come anywhere near housing people, and it will be even worse optics when foreigners are housed ahead of Irish people.

GP access, hospital waiting lists will not improve, nursing home places won't be there.

We probably still wont have a new childrens hospital.

And any economic decline will bring cutbacks.

Fuel prices are going up today.

They can issue all the sound bytes under the sun, but I think a lot of people have copped on and now distrust and even detest the lot of them.

The ones that are trying to jump ship and distance themselves from this fiasco are detested as much as the clowns that instigated it.

One thing I am wondering is if certain people are waiting for Locals/Euros to see if they will reenter the political scene and form a party.

From speaking to some people I feel that the no no vote was not a matter of not understanding the issue. it was people saying to the government and opposition “ would ye ever fook off and fix the real issues in this country and forget this virtue signaling fluff “ .

The chair is government appointed and a third of them are party selected.

The whole selection process was called into question in 2018 when it turned out 7 replacements joining in January 2018 had to be removed the following month when it emerged they were mates of a Red C employee making selections.

Thank god some cork lad won an award so Pravda/rte can try to ignore the spanking the ffg shinners and the rest took on Friday

I agree the thing is arse covering nonsense, but is it not 99 randomers and a chair?

Tbf it seems a lot of the carers ones pivoted to a no near the end when there was fùck all clarification provided about what would change and if it would even improve their situations.