What is top of your concerns when it comes to vote? I'm undecided myself atm
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Interestingly, I haven't seen a single canvasser at my door yet.
I can safely say I will not give a single preference to FF, FG, Greens, SF, or Labour.
The usual Independent candidate is so pro open borders that he has no hope either.
Far right nutjobs are getting nothing.
I'm just hoping a half decent candidate shows up who wants to A: Control illegal immigration, and
B. Propose some rational plans to solve the housing and health crisis.
It doesn't seem like a huge ask, and yet...I'm really struggling to find such a candidate/party…
Unbelievable!
We had our local green candidate call yesterday. We we’d taken the bus into town for the afternoon, so both cars were outside. We’ve a Ring doorbell and when we answered she refused to believe we weren’t home 😂
No one.
All the local lads look like something from D'Unbelievables.
Clare Daly was at Kilbarrack train station this morning. The train was coming and I was late for work but defo would have stayed and talked to her for a bit, specifically her stance on Ukraine and why she has that stance. I don't get how she could be Pro-Palestine and Anti/Neutral-Ukraine.
I like the Social Democrats as a party. Holly Cairns seems to have made some positive statements and seems to have the right end of the stick on a National Government level. I dunno how good they will be in local government.
It's a council election not a general election, councillors are not going to be able to change immigration policy, have little influence on housing, and zero on health.
So in other words they are good for nothing and a waste of money.
No, they can be very good on local issues.
Local Authorities have competence in local issues as the name suggests.
A lot of good TD's cut their political teeth as Councillors.
Only if you think roads, housing and other issues are of zero importance.
The councillors who got elected as TDs, Norma Foley to name but one, also got 50 odd thousand quid for "technically" losing their councillor jobs. That's another joke.
Well the other poster said they have little influence on housing.
As for the roads maybe its different over in your neck of the woods but Galway County Council are beyond useless when it comes to road maintenance.
Who are these good TDs?
In general Councillors do a good job for a comparatively low rate of pay.
Not playing that game with you.
Everyone knows the good TDs past and present in their own area.
Do you have a source for this please?
Well?
So in other words you made a statement and now can't back it up.
I'll give an order of preference to everyone, except SF, Greens, independents, left wing parties or any of the other loony nut jobs. So basically preference 1 to FG (and down the line) and then subsequent preference to FF.
I've already backed it up.
I 'm just not going to give you a list of names.
Here's a sample https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/call-to-end-county-council-parachute-payments-for-tds/38634459.html
You want to know who in the Dáil is a "good" TD?
What's your yardstick?
Number of issues solved for constituents? Highest local and national profile? Became a Minister or a Committee Chair? Introduced the most successful private member's Bills? Sat on the most Committees? Sat on the most powerful Committees? Appeared on Morning Ireland/Prime Time/TWIP most often?
Its a reductive question, best answered with the retort, how long is a piece of string?
Number of issues solved for constituents
I think this is terrible measurement of how good a TD is, I get all politics are local politics but really for local issues you should be in contact with your local councilor, not your local TD. Your local TD is for national issues
Just having a look at all the new parties forming, there are 5 right leaning/wing parties that you can vote for now. It will be very interesting to see how well they do. I'll probably vote for SD and SF
True. Having said that, these Councillors have clearly been party members, as a bare minimum, for years.
Meaning they support all of the policies the party advocates.
Which is quite enough to ensure I'm not giving them a preference...
I live in an apartment in a fairly central area and no election candidates ever call. Not for Euro, council or Dail elections. Apartment dwellers vote too.
I know who i wont vote for in June but not so sure who will get my vote. Independents, maybe Aontu if they have someone in my area. If anything there's too many new candidates out there and the protest vote will be too diluted and the usual suspects get in after all.
Many would envy you being able to avoid enthusiastic canvassers 🙂
But seriously allowing random groups of politically motivated people to access the common areas of an apartment building is probably not a good idea.
That's fairly awful, though I see the average payment was €28k, so the Indo may well be hyping up things by focusing on the small number of unusually high payments.
No, I won’t be voting for any Government parties.
Tell me what answers any of your far right political parties have? All they can do is blame the black man, they have ZERO answers.
I won't be voting for any parties this time so will have to be an independent.
Refreshing to see many people not voting for the status quo, glad to see people waking up to their bullshit!
There's a reason why Harris is doing something about immigration but it's all about the local elections, he must be scared **** of what his candidates are reporting back
I hope us voters don't mistake this so called face turn because this is just for the elections, we need to hit the government parties badly like what we did at the referendum.
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