I think it will be FF/FG again with god knows who. Hopefully a left wing party
It will be November 15th
The health service is fine, once you get past the point of entry. The ED and outpatients is where the pinch points are.
The problem is actually too much leftism in government policy down the decades, where they have failed to smash the Unions and various professional bodies, who have been the ones blocking a 7 day health service that reflects real life, instead of a 9-5, 5 days a week, outside of which you dare not become ill.
I'd sooner take my chances with the current restructuring, albeit painfully slow, rather than risk Sinn Féin, who want to make absolutely sure I could not afford my private health insurance premiums, by taxing my family up the arse, and which thanks to the economic success of the outgoing government, I currently can.
I've spent time in Hospital this year with a serious illness, and some of my immediate family members have done similar over the last couple of years. I or they have not experienced anything that can be described as a poor health service.
And as to your point, voting for SF will not improve the HSE one iota. If anything they plan to increase taxes on Doctors and consultants simply for earning over 100k. Given our need to recruit so many from abroad and we compete with other countries, it would make voting for SF as the largest opposition party a bad choice if your concerned about health.
Good point. I think it would be simplistic to simply feel a handful of experiences means that the health service is functioning. I have a dead close relative because the A an E service was so bad.
I personally can't access mental health services in my area as they are non existent. All manifestos are open to negotiation.
I don't deny people have positive experiences but I think you need to talk to more people about the health service before passing judgement
I don't think SF are planning to tax people up the arse. If they get into power then it would be as a junior partner to either FG or FF.
However going by the polls this is unlikely at the moment
Our tax intake is so high currently there is absolutely no need by anyone to increase the tax, and no party has indicated they would.
The HSE is not underfunded, just badly managed. It's going to take 10 years to fix. Maybe the next sitting government should see how the labour plan is going with regards their 10 year plan to fix the NHS and take notes.
However, the HSE is not and should not be the main priority to fix. It's gotta be housing. Anecdotal and news stories about nurses unable to come from abroad to take up roles etc, nearly sure there was something on the news yesterday about school teachers also.
Thankfully, that clown O'Brien should be nowhere near this in about 8 weeks time. Question is, who's next. Not a huge talent pool out there
Anecdotal and news stories about nurses unable to come from abroad to take up roles etc, nearly sure there was something on the news yesterday about school teachers also.
Anecdotes should not form the basis of government policy.
Yes I think so, smart move by FFG, as it avoids both their Christmas holidays and the peak hospital trolley seasons, sneaky
No but in this case there is plenty of hard evidence that there's a housing crisis in this country.
Agreed, particularly when there's oceans of actual evidence accrued over a decade!
Did you literally stop at anecdotes? or did you bother to read the next couple of words?
True.
O'Brien will point to the new Planning Act and whatever the LDA manages to deliver, but this is now about three significant blockages.
Capital, construction inflation, and NIMBYism.
We are building the most units per capita in Europe yet its not enough.
Get ready for a massive correction in the next 18 months. We will have ghost estates and negative equity.
" The pace of construction of new residential homes in Ireland is continuing to accelerate according to the latest forecasts from EY-Euroconstruct, with estimates for completions revised upwards to 36,000 for this year and to 41,000 for 2025. Housing completions per 1,000 of population in Ireland - at 6.9 in 2024 and 7.7 in 2025 - are projected to be the strongest among the 19 Euroconstruct European countries and more than double the overall average (3.3 per 1,000 in 2024 and 3.1 in 2025"
https://www.ey.com/en_ie/news/2024/06/irish-housing-completions-forecast-to-be-strongest-among-19-european-countries-ey-euroconstruct#:~:text=Housing%20completions%20per%201%2C000%20of%20population%20in%20Ireland%20%2D%20at%206.9,2024%20and%203.1%20in%202025).
I think that's a problem for people in the public eye in general. We are rarely punishing crime anymore and of course, people become more emboldened and start to believe that it is acceptable to commit crime. Learnt behaviour, really.
Politicians encountering regular online, physical and verbal abuse are a high profile example of same.
I expect most politicians in Ireland wont stay in the game as long as they would have in days gone by.
Sinn Fein are quite explicit in their intention to remove tax credits on a tapered basis for those earning over €100k along with a 3% tax on incomes over €140k.
For a married, newly appointed public hospital consultant, this would reduce their take home by €11,500 per year or just about a €1k per month pay cut. Great news for hospital waiting lists no doubt…
Thankfully nonsense we don’t need to worry about anymore.
Hardly likely to happen but in certain circumstances raising taxes would be a potential option to prevent the economy from overheating.
Hopefully the greens will be totally extinguished.
Even Coppinger isn't a given in Dublin West.
Chambers and Currie are safe, based on Dublin polls.
That leaves Donnelly, O'Gorman, Walsh, Troy and Coppinger for three seats, with the first two most likely. A couple of interesting independent candidates who could figure include Treacy and Doyle, given the national support for independents. Coppinger is tainted and has done nothing for the constituency, other than rant and rave since losing her seat.
Wrong, Sinn Fein want to tax the multinationals and high earners out of the country so they can impose their North Korean economic model on us.
While also making the promise to hire loads of new consultant 🤦♂️
This was pointed out years ago to SF and they just shrugged shoulders and moved on
Incompetence
Coppinger is the biggest waste of space in Ireland, I posted it before but she ran around with a load of single mothers to get voted into the Dail and then dropped them once she got in
Now she is running around calling everyone a racist and trying to get voted in based on that, is that section of the community that stupid to vote her in? Hopefully not.
Who are the high earners? One minute it’s 140k the next it’s 100k
I think we should all agree that the target is anyone and everyone that works in Ireland, the clip level will move to suit their own agenda.
Anyone who betters themselves is a target of Sinn Fein.
Fg are not going to do as well as people think based on opinion polls because they are losing a lot of sitting tds and i think Ff Sf and independents are waiting in the wings to mop up a lot of those seats.Also remember Fg record on housing is very poor and the children's hospital saga is a disgrace. Expect Sf to pick holes in Fg record on these 2 issues and to claw back ground. This election isn't over, it's only starting and i believe Sinn Fein will get their support out to vote and do a lot better than people are predicting at the moment.
No chance. It will be down at 10% or lower.
Fg record on housing is very poor and the children's hospital saga is a disgrace.
If these issues were a 'deal breaker' for individual voters why wouldn't they be already registering in opinon polls?
Sf are spinning the polls now are either corrupt or the poll company is only going to areas which FG supporters live in
This is after years of telling everyone how great the polls are and they are independent etc. The results are correct and a true reflection of Ireland
Now the polls have gone against they, the issue is the polls not SF
FFGs housing delivery is number 1 per capita across the 19 european euroconstruct countries and is improving further, year on year.
We are at the top of the table in terms of housing delivery.
I saw something earlier on that, do you have a link? It suggested we were heading for 46,000 new-builds next year. That could turn the election on the housing issue.
They can build all the 500,600 and 700k houses they want. Its affordable housing we need. And ffg arent interested in that.
SF for me.
Ivan Yates talked to his deep throat SF guy. They expect to lose seats. They have 25 definite seats with a possible 9 on top. Possible being the operative word.
However the Dail will be bigger
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