Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

Read the Ministers twitter thread describing exactly what occurred.

I've read the question asked by Doherty and he asked her if she had had any meeting with a company that produces the pouches and she said no. His argument is that because she bumped into somebody from a company who makes pouches for about a minute constitutes meeting them. Of course it doesn't, and it's disingenuous to say otherwise.

This really annoys me. The phone pouches, in the grand scheme of things, doesn't matter. But the price being paid, and the fact that this is what Norma Foley wants to spend some amount of time focusing on rather than the wider failings in the education sphere should be called out.

Instead of that, Doherty has gone for a gotcha.

Do better sinn fein. Really, we need better opposition than this.

What sf are ignoring is that every school that has introduced these pouches have said that they are superb and that bullying has reduced and children's attention in class has improved.

That's EVERY principal - not just a couple.

Schools - and the parents of the children - are seeing this as a superb investment and sf simply are blind to that.

Of course, in NI they support the rollout.

So you think future students should not get one?

Maybe sf prefer young children to have access to mobiles for grooming purposes by senior party members?

Well she did not mention that the department would have a contingency fund to replace broken pouches which is what the 1.7 million is

It’s not clear how often that would need to be topped up,ie how often they’d need replacing
personally I’d struggle to understand how you’d be breaking them once a year

Would add Carlow/Kilkenny, and agree Laois is one they could easily lose.

The candidates in those constituencies are not the best, nor would they have the personal vote of those they are replacing.

As per usual, Norma Foley makes a good proactive decision for schoolkids. Only costing 0.008% of the annual education budget too. SF are struggling if this is the best line of attack they have.

You really are rather hett up on this.

Seems sf types have no interest in child welfare - between knocking the pouches which are PROVEN to improve attention and dramatically drop bullying within school hours and defending senior members of their part that give glowing references to child abusers.

Sure the billy Hampton inheritance sinn fein got would pay for 2 years ongoing supply of pouches to new students.

That's something that was very very fishy with senior sf people getting very close to Hampton. What sort of exertion was put ???

Gerry Adams claimed he wasn't in the IRA. But that's a different sort of lie. Right?

Well

I flicked through their site. I count 71 candidates. What's the requirement for an out right majority in the Dáil?