EU Elections 2024 - Results

You won't hear of them for 5 years

I'm so sick of seeing comments like this. What exactly do people expect to hear from their MEPs? The Irish media do not cover the European Parliament. Presumable that's because Irish people don't seem to care about what happens there. It is therefore a bit rich to complain that we don't hear about how they are getting on.

The only MEPs that we have heard about in the last 5 years were for all the wrong reasons: Wallace & Daly shilling for Assad & Putin and Ming showing up on a video call in his underwear.

What exactly would people like to hear from their MEPs given that the job description is basically spending years working on typically very dry and technical legislation?

The results are in

Is she that incapable that she was told to avoid the media at all costs, well, knowing a bit about her, I’d say when it comes to politics, let’s say she’d struggle.

I have no idea how this even came about. She’s a lovely person, but is that where we are at now?

I could use any amount of analogies for her becoming an MEP and you can be guaranteed there will be very little to no scrutiny on her impact/input over the next 5 years.

Anyway, not her fault and good look to her.

But it is baffling

Wallace will be getting pensions,,, better than the employees he had that he stole their pensions,, anyone know what td/ MEP pensions he will be drawing?

it’s amusing how quick people are to jump on the bash FG band wagon without evidence or a plethora of information to back it up. So far we have seen Carbery not turn up to the election count centre and people are jumping to the conclusion that she will therefore be a no show for her entire European career.

What we have seen is a very high profile candidate who has appeared on Dancing with the Stars and Irelands fittest family leverage all her recognition into a phenomenal turnout to vote for her. That took undoubtedly a huge amount of time and effort behind the scenes pre election and knocking on doors to get that turnout.

What do we know of her other than that? She is a jockey. So people have jumped on these two main attributes and jumped to the conclusion she will be useless. I hope like her masterful results in getting out the vote she will prove people wrong.

We still have to see her politics but the same could be said of another celebrity candidate in the Irish Eurovision singer Cynthia ni Mhurchu. Who is to say her results will not be the same as Carbery judging by her enttertainment background and profile?

Totally,this wind dream doesn't stand up to scrutiny and will be legacy of the current green term in government,the same as the car tax was before, showing their complete lack of cop on,,, you never hear them mention data centers but cows are bad news.…

I suppose the 'evidence' you say is not there re Carbery is in fact there. She has never made any political statements that we've heard, never campaigned on an issue, and during an election campaign participated in no debates. She was chosen because of her profile and it's paid off for FG. She'll be managed in the Parliament by FG and she can probably get away without doing much, it's an easy place to hide if you wish and toe the line which she will. Let's see how it unfolds.

Why would ditching Ryan help?

Who in the GP could replace him and has shown more regard for cost impact etc?

Bit of a joke a Jockey who never was involved in politics is elected . Afte watching RTÉ programme on horse industry the other night makes it worse .
Fine Gael always had rich landowners and landlords and now they have the rich horsey crowd as their politicians who haven’t a clue about ordinary peoples lives .

Nobody seems to have seen her anywhere.

Does she even exist?

Quick google search brings up independent article which disproves your point.

In her pitch to party members, Carberry highlighted her values of "honesty, hard work and plain talking" and Fine Gael's principle of equality of opportunity that resonates with her.

Key priorities she outlined include championing balanced regional development for rural areas, reducing red tape for farmers and businesses, protecting free movement for students, and developing a cross-European apprenticeship scheme.

You are totally wrong. Stop posting misinformation.

By the time she figures out how politics works, it will be another election. Europe is not the place to learn the ropes. I'd prefer to see her in the Dail or even council starting off. Strange really.

Delighted Wallace and Daly are gone. I think we have put some smart and outspoken MEPs in McNamara/Mullooley and Ming will always keep things honest.

Michael Martin has banished his biggest enemy to Europe in the odious Cowen and the Gardai won't dare try and stop him for drink driving now.

It's funny how the Green Party have been solely blamed in the public imagination for the move to emission based Motor Tax.

Not only were they not in Government when it was first announced, but they had never been in Government before up until that point. It would be like blaming SF for something the current government announced tomorrow. 

The change to basing Motor Tax on emissions was actually announced in Budget 2007, which was delivered in 2006. 

Here's the quote from Finance Minister Brian Cowan's (FF) speech at the time: (https://assets.gov.ie/194593/082b8141-377f-4d02-94e6-54b38f74c614.pdf)

At the same time, my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government will consult on his proposals for a complementary rebalancing of annual motor tax. This would provide a further incentive through the motor tax system for the motoring public to drive cleaner cars and would impose some additional cost in respect of cars with higher carbon dioxide emission levels. This would apply to vehicles registered on or after 1 January 2008. Underpinning both of these initiatives will be a new mandatory labelling system for cars based on CO2 emission levels. Linking consumption taxes to environmental goals requires us to discuss the details of such moves thoroughly with stakeholders if we want to get it right. 

The government at the time was made up of Fianna Fail, the Progressive Democrats and 5 independents. The Minister for the Environment mentioned above was Martin Cullen from Fianna Fail. The Green Party were in opposition, and did not contribute to the budget. As mentioned, they had not ever been in Government at all up until this point. 

Here's an interesting article from October 2007. By this time the GP were in Government with FF and the PDs, but the Motor Tax reforms were delayed and were not due to be implemented in January 2008 as promised. In the article, Fine Gael's Phil Hogan is lambasting the Government at the time, especially The Green Party, for not introducing the changes. 

"One would have assumed that the entry of the Green Party into Government would have expedited the introduction of this environmental reform but instead I find that the measure has been pushed off until the middle of next year."

He continued: "If the Greens have as much influence as they claim, it has to be asked how this important environmental measure has been allowed to slip onto the back burner. Actions speak louder than words."

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/motor-tax-reform-to-be-delayed-1.813158

The truth is that all political parties in the Dáil at the time supported the change to emissions based motor tax, not just the GP, and the GP were minority partners in Government when it was finally implemented, but it was FF and the PDs that actually introduced the idea.

And the truth is that all current major parties support wind and solar. There's simply no public appetite for nuclear power in this country. Personally, I'd like to see nuclear used - we import enough energy generated by it anyway. But can you imagine actually trying to plan and build a nuclear power station in this country? Look at the hassles we have even getting a 5G mast in some areas. People just don't want it near them - and near in terms of nuclear means within hundred of kilometres.

The Green's main issue is that the "green agenda" has actually been co-opted by all mainstream parties (and I include SF in that). It's just handy that they're a scapegoat when something turns out to be unpopular.

Any person who can píss off John Gibbons would get my vote. His a total and utterly mouth piece. When someone calls him out on twitter he blocks them.