Election to be called Fri - predict outcome

I think they said "all 9". Maybe that's changed since. Maybe the Healy Rae's or Claire & Mick Wally declared as a party.

"Liberty Republic"

Sounds like a fekin pop band 🤣

The claim of not being able agree on anything is always thrown at the left but jesus every lad on the far right seems to have his own party.

From the FG manifesto.

"A New Department of Infrastructure. Fine Gael will merge the Department of Transport and the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Communications, as well as the infrastructure part of the Department of Public Expenditure. The OPW will be subsumed into the new department except for the National Monuments Service, which will move to the Department of Housing. A special team reporting to Cabinet will have responsibility for ‘mega projects’ – those worth more than €100 million"

This sounds utterly stupid. More than ever the department of transport needs to be out on its own and be treated as one of the most important portfolios in the government.

As for OPW it's just pure populism. That fekin bike shed should not detract from the important work they do across the country. If they want to split it just leave OPW as an independent national monument service.

Into all that "freeman of the land" or whatever it's called bollix.

They would not be 'part of the government' as such but would be pledged to support it, something the HR brothers have family experience of

Don't think it's the same with Jackie the father and the two lads now, Lowry would be safe enough alright .

The "two lads" are the most two faced shittes in the Dail.

They would do anything to protect their property empire. Including getting into bet with "Dem big fanshy suit warin fat cats in da big shmoke"

They can be trusted to do nothing other than line their own pockets.

it was 2021

he should have rectified every day he could prove he attended, whether in person or online.

rather then have this hanging over years later…

Are political parties unable to create their own policy on drug decriminalisation? They keep mentioning the Citizens Assembly.

The lack of individual thought from our political parties on the big policies is stark.

Let's hope the failed referendums will spell the end of the Citizen's Assemblies.

It's a by-product of our voting system. Other countries with pr systems use list systems or quota based systems (ie your party must have x% to get seats) which means independents don't really exist.

They were extremely effective until the current Government decided to not actually listen to them. They should be retained and listened to - representative politics isn't always the answer (but direct democracy, referendum on everything absolutely isn't either)

Health and transport policies are not exceptionally controversial. If you don't understand why they're held on the types of issues they are, you're never going to understand why they're useful.

Have you looked at what the Citizens Assembly have been talking about the past 10 years? Issues to do with fix term parliaments, an aging population, how referendums are run.

None of these are controversial in the slightest.

I've been against these assemblies for years and I've posted on boards about them. I wasn't happy when they delayed the marriage equality law to this nonsense when they could have brought in the referendum without it, a year or two earlier.

Yes I did Google what they were talking about and I suspect you didn't realise what trivial rubbish they were wasting our money on.

Look if it got marriage equality and the 8th Amendment over the line.. Grand. But let's leave it there. The few million could be spent on something else.