I think it will be FF/FG again with god knows who. Hopefully a left wing party
It will be November 15th
Everyone pays that, or its refunded to them by an insurance scheme.
As a GP here if they'd be willing to take 30 per patient for every patient and they'd bite your arm off for it.
For medical card and doctor visit card patients, GPs are paid as little as 64.28 a year, to cover all visits that patient makes. Patients with those cards attend about twice as often as those who pay per visit, as you are less likely to ignore something when it isn't costing you money - for long term health outcomes, you want people to go when they're sick.
Medical card/DVC payments are unsustainably low and have been for decades; GPs make their money off higher than internationally comparable fees for people without them.
GP charge 26.50 in France, due to increase to 30 next year.
I have asked lots of people, but nobody has provided any explanation as to how this is possible.
Difficult to call for the small parties, you need to look at each constituency and the individuals standing there.
For example, looking at the 3 Fingal Constituencies (Dublin West, Fingal West, Fingal East), Labour could end up with zero seats…or on a very good day, 3..
Hard one to predict except the Greens will probably get a hiding at the Polling Stations. It will be interesting to see how the recent run of SF's controversies affect the electorate. Will it put off the new SF voter or will the hardcore SF voter rally around SF even more?
I assume FF and FG will remain fairly similar and might even increase their number of seats if the timing of the election is right for them.
Labour and the SD have been playing it cagey hedging their bets it will be interesting to see how this strategy plays with the electorate.
No, by the 4th. 18 minimum.
So if rumours of the 22nd are to be believed, it has to be dissolved by the 23?
Not in Ireland they aren't. Been 18-25 days for over 30 years.
Once the Dail is dissolved an election has to take place within 30 days
no not according to the electoral act of 1992.
18-25 days?
Are campaigns not usually longer? I'm not sure.
I have six weeks in my head.
They're getting my number 1 vote again, and I'll be giving them number 1 every election until we're carbon neutral
I'm guessing FF/FG will end up in coalition again. Turns out mediocrity and preserving the status quo is better than the alternatives for most people
As for the others, I reckon SF is going to implode. The party has always been this bizarre alliance of the left and right people who hate FF/FG
Now between immigration and Gaza those two wings hate each other and the party leadership can't hold it together
I reckon the left wing of the party will swing to a combination of Labour, Social Democrats and PBP depending on how moderate they are. This in turn might be enough to give the first two a shot at being the junior partner in a coalition
PBP are never, ever going to get into government and will do everything they can to resist going into government because they know they'll be getting the blame for screwing everything up
Unfortunately I think the right wing of SF supporters (i.e. the group who post on boards.ie) might be enough to carry one of the psychotic far right parties into the Dail
Again, they'll never get into government but we'll all be subjected to listening to whatever spiteful crap they're spewing into the chamber
Hopefully there's a referendum limiting Dail privilege at some point, it'd be nice to see some of the twats like Grealish facing legal action over their comments
No, and it was never going to be called tomorrow
18-25 days between writ and election date; the rumoured dates could not even be called tomorrow.
They need to pass the finance bill.
Gript were getting you needlessly agitated about things that were never going to happen.
But that's their M.O.
What's that got to do with O'Gorman?
Bear in mind that school books are written and published by private companies, the Dept of Education (which also has nothing to do with O'Gorman) does not censor or approve them and it's up to each school (and sometimes each teacher) to decide which books will be used in a class
They are the strongest supporters of this so called hate speech law. Anyone who supports it won't get a vote from me
I mean you don't have free speech regardless. Another? Won't they be just joining the right leaning parties that do?
Is tomorrow the deadline for to call an election in mid November? Also even if there was an election pre Christmas isn't it likely a government won't be formed until the new year?
You are going to have to explain abit more than that.
Please God not SD another lunatic far left party who want to implement anti free speech laws.
They're the organisations housing people on social housing lists. Do we not hear about the homeless everyday? How else are we supposed to solve the crisis
I support carbon taxes, yes.
Whether I support them rising to 100 euro per tonne, I am open to debate on that.
The legislation plans the tax to rise to 100 euro per tonne.
I support VAT being cut from 23% to 20%.
I want the marginal income tax on median earnings to be cut sharply, from 48.6% to maybe 35%.
So, yes, I am happy for carbon and property taxes to rise, as long as marginal income rates on median and mean earnings falls.
I think that's a distraction technique to woo the crowds.
They have a reason for exisiting and most of us, especially those of us under 40, just aren"t interested in buying what they have to sell.
Not sure its great optics for FFG to have them as the third wheel, either. The Greens were progressive, but will be mostly wiped out this time around.
I think the Soc Dems or Labour have a better chance of making up the third leg and neither party would be percieved as regressive, internationally.
The government already takes about 60% of what you pay for petrol and you want to pay more???
That seems reasonable to me.
Going by adverts on social media, they are mentioning their plans for immigration rules a lot.
No mention of abortion.
They could; but they won't. There is zero chance they will give up on their single issue to enter a coalition; or else the party would basically cease to be - it only exists for that single issue of not accepting the status quo. Everything else is window dressing.
I am no big fan of the Green Party, but not because of taxes.
Other than the carbon tax, which of course they wanted to increase (I agree), what other tax have they introduced / increased?
Maybe I am missing something.
Bear in mind that houses being built does not mean houses being sold to the general public.
Many new schemes/estates are sold directly to the LA or a AHB.
The NCCA / SPHE education / "Family A vs. Family B"
It seems to be the consensus here that because Aontu were established as anti 8th amendment, that they are forever a single issue party.
In the real world, Aontu would hold maybe 4 seats and form part of a 90 seat coalition. They could say 'We know we won't succeed in seeking a referendum to outlaw abortion, we ask that during this government there be no change to status quo (no further liberalisation). They could then seek something related to their other policies, justice reform maybe, greater financial accountability, more robust migration control, etc, together with a couple of.
I personally think both FF and FG could agree a programme for government with Aontu.
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