Irish General Election - Friday, November 29th *Read OP for Mod Warnings*

The disability services in this country are a disgrace. I am so glad it has became one of the election topics. Disability is buried in ROG's very long named ministry i.e. FFG don't care about it.

We have the NRH here , a state of the art spinal injury rehabilitation hospital, amazing place but guess what? At the minute its criminally under staffed and funded.

My accident was in Australia and the care I received there in a regular university hospital was 1st class. I essentially started rehabilitation the next day . Back to Ireland to rot in hospital for 2 months waiting on a place in rehab. It's criminal.

Nah not back.

Just could not resist total wafflers.

No desire to be limited in what topics I can and can't discuss by the type who very much want things such as hate speech legislation.

I am no expert, but as a student of history having being around the block long enough and just talking to ordinary people one can see the writing on the wall.

We as a state are always late to the party.

There is something in the Irish mindset that believes we are somehow different.

It was very much at play during the construction bubble.

We never had a housing collapse so it could never possibly happen here.

The writing was on the wall, a junior cert commerce student could see the numbers did not add up.

Even Stevie Wonder could see house prices were unsustainable.

Now it is public spending and most specifically the absolutely massive increase in public spending on people that should not even be in the state.

Then add in the massive drain on public services and the massive increased demand for housing.

It is sheer economic lunacy, never mind the social consequences.

The merry go round is being kept going by corporation taxes.

Trump's commerce pick is one Howard Lutnick.

How many Irish people have listened to his comments about Ireland?

Has any current politician here referenced it, never mind any election candidate.

US multinationals are beginning to think they might have to move home tax wise, well at least for a few years while Trump is around and then after he is gone it will be business as usual.

That is working on assumption that the US and the president after next will think it is alright for US multinationals to launder their profits through little old Ireland.

There is a recession coming and we will be hit more than most.

And that means our totally inflated public spending will need to be slashed.

And to make matters worse we have decimated one of our only indigenous industries - tourism.

And we are on the way to decimating the other - agriculture.

How many politicians have brought up fact Mercusor deal is about to be signed, which will mean very lean times (pardon the pun) for our beef producers for starters.

Nah lets not cover in our media how French farmers are closing their ports, are closing their borders because they unlike their Irish counterparts have leadership that have balls and are not looking out for future payback from agribusiness and vested political interests.

Oh yes FF, FG will probably be back in power after this election.

It will only copper fasten their arrogance, but they not alone are incapable halfwits they have dangerous ideologues amongst them.

I would bet that sadly there is very good chance that within 5 years Ireland is on it's knees.

And if a massive economic downturn does not result in major changes then within 10 years we have riots, if not very much worse, as a common place occurrence in our towns and cities.

Now I bid you goodbye before the usual numpties arrive.

BTW I can't understand why you guys persevere in debating with some whose vested interests in the massive modern Irish social projects are there for all to see.

Why bother.

id definitely encourage voting, including those i disagree with, but the reality is, the only real alternative government is actually sf, but the reality there is, not enough will actually vote for them, so our system is actually just gonna keep defaulting ffg governments, until its mathematically impossible. ffg will only negotiate government formation with more established, more centrally aligned parties and independents, leaving the rest for opposition, so by not voting for the likes of sf, folks must accept, their vote may play little or no part in government formation

I think you're clutching at straws. Nowhere does it say EU citizens are entitled to medical cards regardless of income.

Maybe try again when you tell us what foreigners are more entitled to, then Irish citizens

It’s less common in Ireland but it can arise for frontier workers - they are resident here but work in another Member State and are subject to social insurance in that member state. There will be a category of fly in-fly out workers in that category (including airline staff) but it should be vanishingly small as to be subject to the misinterpretation by the other poster.

Their alternative is not being the mudguards for the likes of FG and retaining some dignity. They fucked themselves royally when they went into coalition the last time with them and were sent out to try and sell Irish Water.

They fully deserved their years in the wilderness and shouldn't be eager to get back into bed with FG.

I know but I thought they were playing it down in future. Peadar said that recently.

The main FF voting bit of Wexford was shunted in to the Wicklow-Wexford constituency.

Peadar also said they want to force women to give birth to disabled babies.

god no, its clearly one of the most powerful tools humanity has ever created, it has pulled an astonishing amount of folks globally out of severe poverty, including here in ireland, but we ve clearly took a completely wrong turn with it over the last few decades, it has been far better in the past, so we can change it again

Get on up outta that!